Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Shooting competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place from 28 July to 6 August at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich. Fifteen events were included with 390 athletes taking part.[1] The events were the same as in 2008.

Shooting at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Royal Artillery Barracks
Dates	28 July – 6 August

The competitions were originally planned for the National Shooting Centre in Bisley, Surrey, and the temporary solution at the Royal Artillery Barracks (which is in the River Zone) was adopted later after the International Olympic Committee expressed concerns about the distance between London and Bisley.

Since the pistols used in the 25m and 50m shooting events were deemed by HM Government as prohibited[2] in England, Scotland and Wales after the Dunblane Massacre, special dispensation had to be granted by the UK Government and security criteria met by LOCOG to allow certain events to go ahead.

Qualification

The qualification system was similar to that used for previous Games, with a fixed number of quota places divided among the nations whose shooters place well at the top-level global and continental championships. However, due to new IOC regulations mandating that all qualification events take place during the last 24 months before the Olympics, no such quota places were awarded during the 2009 ISSF World Cup or the 2010 ISSF World Cup, leading to decreased interest in these competitions to the point where the 2010 competition planned for New Delhi had to be rescheduled and moved to Australia. The International Shooting Sport Federation announced that qualification would commence with the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Munich, which ended on 10 August, almost exactly two years before the Olympics.

Great Britain did not qualify spots through the World Championship, rather its places were guaranteed due to it being the host nation, however it could qualify shooters to the other events. Iran was the only country that did not send shooters to the 2008 Summer Olympics to have qualified a shooter for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[3]

Schedule

Legend

Q

Qualification

F

Final

Event↓/Date →	Sat 28		Sun 29		Mon 30		Tue 31		Wed 1		Thu 2		Fri 3		Sat 4		Sun 5		Mon 6
Rifle
Men's 10 m air rifle					Q	F
Men's 50 m rifle prone													Q	F
Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions																			Q	F
Women's 10 m air rifle	Q	F
Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions															Q	F
Pistol
Men's 10 m air pistol	Q	F
Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol											Q			F
Men's 50 m pistol																	Q	F
Women's 10 m air pistol			Q	F
Women's 25 m pistol									Q	F
Shotgun
Men's trap																	Q			F
Men's double trap											Q	F
Men's skeet					Q			F
Women's trap															Q	F
Women's skeet			Q	F

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	3	2	0	5
2	United States	3	0	1	4
3	Italy	2	3	0	5
4	China	2	2	3	7
5	Belarus	1	0	0	1
	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	Cuba	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
	Romania	1	0	0	1
10	France	0	1	1	2
	India	0	1	1	2
	Serbia	0	1	1	2
	Slovakia	0	1	1	2
14	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
18	Ukraine	0	0	2	2
19	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 nations)		15	15	15	45

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
air pistol	Jin Jong-oh  South Korea	Luca Tesconi  Italy	Andrija Zlatić  Serbia
air rifle	Alin Moldoveanu  Romania	Niccolo Campriani  Italy	Gagan Narang  India
rapid fire pistol	Leuris Pupo  Cuba	Vijay Kumar  India	Ding Feng  China
pistol	Jin Jong-oh  South Korea	Choi Young-rae  South Korea	Wang Zhiwei  China
rifle prone	Sergei Martynov  Belarus WR	Lionel Cox  Belgium	Rajmond Debevec  Slovenia
rifle three positions	Niccolo Campriani  Italy OR	Kim Jong-hyun  South Korea	Matthew Emmons  United States
skeet	Vincent Hancock  United States	Anders Golding  Denmark	Nasser Al-Attiyah  Qatar
trap	Giovanni Cernogoraz  Croatia	Massimo Fabbrizi  Italy	Fehaid Al-Deehani  Kuwait
double trap	Peter Wilson  Great Britain	Håkan Dahlby  Sweden	Vasily Mosin  Russia

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
air pistol	Guo Wenjun  China	Céline Goberville  France	Olena Kostevych  Ukraine
air rifle	Yi Siling  China	Sylwia Bogacka  Poland	Yu Dan  China
pistol	Kim Jang-mi  South Korea	Chen Ying  China	Olena Kostevych  Ukraine
rifle three positions	Jamie Lynn Gray  United States OR	Ivana Maksimović  Serbia	Adéla Sýkorová  Czech Republic
skeet	Kim Rhode  United States WR	Wei Ning  China	Danka Barteková  Slovakia
trap	Jessica Rossi  Italy WR	Zuzana Štefečeková  Slovakia	Delphine Réau  France

References

1. "Shooting". 2011. Archived from the original on 1 September 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
2. ""Firearms Act 1996 Section 5"". 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
3. "Olympic Quota Places". International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 25 May 2011.

External links

• "Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics (London2012.com)". Archived from the original on 28 February 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2018.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
• Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics