Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Women's 10 metre air pistol

Infobox Olympic event
event = Women's 10 metre air pistol
games = 2000 Summer
venue = Sydney International Shooting Centre
date = 17 September 2000
competitors = 45
nations = 32
gold = Tao Luna
goldNOC = CHN
silver = Jasna Šekarić
silverNOC = YUG
bronze = Annemarie Forder
bronzeNOC = AUS
win_label = Winning score
win_value = 488.2
prev = 1996
next = 2004The women's 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 17 September. Tao Luna equalled the Olympic record of 390 points in the qualification round, and won 1.7 points ahead of Jasna Šekarić. The host nation won the bronze medal through Annemarie Forder.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World Olympic Record
record_type = Qualification records
world_athlete = flagathlete|Svetlana Smirnova|RUS
world_mark = 393
world_place = Munich, Germany
world_date = 23 May 1998
olympic_athlete = flagIOCathlete|Marina Logvinenko|RUS
olympic_mark = 390
olympic_place = Atlanta, United States
olympic_date = 21 July 1996

World Olympic Record
record_type = Final records
world_athlete = flagathlete|Ren Jie|CHN
world_mark = 493.5 (390+103.5)
world_place = Munich, Germany
world_date = 22 May 1999
olympic_athlete = flagIOCathlete|Olga Klochneva|RUS|1996 Summer
olympic_mark = 490.1
olympic_place = Atlanta, United States
olympic_date = 21 July 1996

Qualification round

DNF Did not finish – EOR Equalled Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

References

*cite book |title=Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad — Shooting |url=http://aafla.com/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sh/SHresults.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2008-09-06