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Shooting At The 2016 Summer Olympics
Shooting competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 14 August at the National Shooting Center in Deodoro. A maximum of 390 athletes were able to compete in the fifteen events across these Games. The event format was similar to 2012, although there were significant changes to the rules and guidelines of the competition. Format changes On 23 November 2012, the International Shooting Sport Federation instituted new rules to the competition format designed to enhance the sport's appeal to youth, to make it more spectator and media friendly, and to keep the competitions fair and transparent. The most significant change to the rules was the new final format for all Olympic events, where all finalists must start from scratch. Furthermore, all finals featured an elimination stage, until the competition ended up with duels between the two shooters to decide the gold and silver medals. Other ratified changes included decimal scoring for both air rifle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Shooting Center
The National Shooting Center, known as the Olympic Shooting Centre during the 2016 Summer Olympics, is a firing range in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The range was opened in 2007 and was upgraded to host the shooting (sport), sports shooting events for the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics. References rio2016.com Rio de Janeiro Olympic venues map Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic shooting venues Shooting ranges in Brazil Sports venues in Rio de Janeiro (city) {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 Metre Air Pistol
The men's 10 metre air pistol event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 6 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center. The event consisted of two rounds: a qualification and a final. In the qualification round, each shooter fired 60 shots with an air pistol at 10 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. The top-eight shooters in the qualification round advanced to the final round, where they fired an additional 20 shots. Scores for each shot were in increments of 0.1, with a maximum score of 10.9. Vietnamese shooter Hoàng Xuân Vinh set an Olympic record based on ISSF Rule changed on 1 January 2013 in the final round with a score of 202.5 (again, an Olympic record), winning the first-ever gold medal for his country in the history of the Olympic Games. The medals were presented by Mamadou Diagna Ndiaye, IOC member, Senegal and Franz Schreiber, Secretary General of the International Shooting Sport Federation The Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Reitz
Christian Reitz (born 29 April 1987) is a German 25 metre rapid fire pistol shooter, the current world record holder. Career He rose to fame during 2005, the first year with the new equipment rules, but was defeated in that year's European Junior Championships by teammate Philipp Wagenitz before finishing his junior career with victories in the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships and the 2007 European Championships. In his first year as a senior, Reitz won two World Cup competitions and was the runner-up behind three-time Olympic champion Ralf Schumann at another, equalling the world record with a 591 score in Milan, and raising Schumann's final world record from 790.0 to 794.0. At the 2008 Olympics, he won the bronze medal behind Oleksandr Petriv Oleksandr Petriv ( uk, Олександр Петрів; born 5 August 1974) is a Ukrainian Olympic shooter. He won a gold medal in the Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing } Beij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pang Wei
Pang Wei (; born 19 July 1986) is a Chinese Olympic sport shooter. He won a gold medal in the 10 metre air pistol at the 2008 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He also won the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships in the same event, at the age of 20. On 29 November 2009, Pang married two-time Olympic shooting champion Du Li in his hometown of Baoding, Hebei. 2008 Summer Olympics Pang won the gold medal in the men's 10 metre air pistol at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Having won China's first Olympic gold medal in shooting, he was awarded 2,000,000 renminbi The renminbi (; symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB) is the official currency of the People's Republic of China and one of the world's most traded currencies, ranking as the fifth most traded currency in the world as of April 2022. ... (US$292,600) from Chinese sponsors. Major performances *2006 World Championships – 1st, 10 metre air pistol *2007 World Cup Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Almeida Wu
Felipe Almeida Wu (born 11 June 1992 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian sport shooter. He won a silver medal in the Men's 10m air pistol event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Career He won a silver medal in the boys' air pistol at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, and then added the gold to his career hardware on his senior debut at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. Wu made his international shooting debut, as an eighteen-year-old, at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. There, he picked up the silver medal with a total score of 676.0 in the boys' air pistol, finishing closely behind Ukrainian shooter and 2012 Olympian Denys Kushnirov by three tenths of a point margin. Despite having missed out his bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Wu managed to improve his lifetime best of 201.8 points for the final meet record and his first senior title in the men's air pistol at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoàng Xuân Vinh
Hoàng Xuân Vinh (born October 6, 1974 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese sport shooter. Xuân Vinh participated in the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal in the 10 meter air pistol and a silver in the 50 meter pistol competitions in 2016 Summer Olympics, being the first-ever and currently only athlete from his country to win an Olympic gold medal. Career Xuân Vinh's professional career in sports shooting spans two Summer Olympic games. 2012 Summer Olympics At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he finished 9th in the qualifying round for 10 meter air pistol, failing to make the cut to the final by a single point. He also failed to win a medal in the 50 meter pistol final, taking the 4th place with a score only 0.1 less than the winner of the bronze medal. 2016 Summer Olympics In 2016, he became the first Vietnamese athlete to win a gold medal in the history of the Summer Olympics, beating Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's Skeet
The Women's skeet event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center The National Shooting Center, known as the Olympic Shooting Centre during the 2016 Summer Olympics, is a firing range in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The range was opened in 2007 and was upgraded to host the shooting (sport), sports shooting e .... Competition format The event consisted of three rounds: a qualifier, semifinal and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 sets of 25 shots in the set order of skeet shooting. The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the semifinal round. There, they fired one additional round of 16. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie. Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. Results Qualification round Semifinal Final (medal matches) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shooting at the 2016 Sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's Trap
The women's trap event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 7 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center. Competition format The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 sets of 25 targets in trap shooting, with 10 targets being thrown to the left, 10 to the right, and 5 straight-away in each set. The shooters could take two shots at each target. The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the semifinal round. There, they fired one round of 15 targets, where only one shot could be taken at each target. Best 2 in the semifinal round advance to gold medal match, while 3rd and 4th advance to bronze medal match. The medal match is an additional round of 15 targets. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie. The medals were presented by Sam Ramsamy, IOC member, South Africa and Medhat Wahdan, Honorary Member and Technical Delegates of the Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's Skeet
The Men's skeet event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 and 13 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center The National Shooting Center, known as the Olympic Shooting Centre during the 2016 Summer Olympics, is a firing range in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The range was opened in 2007 and was upgraded to host the shooting (sport), sports shooting e .... Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. Results Qualification round Semifinal Final (medal matches) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Men's skeet Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics Men's events at the 2016 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's Double Trap
The men's double trap event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 10 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center The National Shooting Center, known as the Olympic Shooting Centre during the 2016 Summer Olympics, is a firing range in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The range was opened in 2007 and was upgraded to host the shooting (sport), sports shooting e .... Competition format The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 5 sets of 30 targets in trap shooting, with 10 targets being thrown to the left, 10 to the right, and 10 straight-away in each set. The shooters could take two shots at each target. The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the semifinal round. There, they fired one round of 15 targets, where only one shot could be taken at each target. The top two in the semifinal round advance to gold medal match, while the third and fourth-place shooters relegate to bronze medal match. The medal match is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's Trap
The men's trap at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 7–8 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center. There were 33 competitors from 24 nations. The event was won by Croatian Josip Glasnović. It was the second consecutive victory for Croatia, with Giovanni Cernogoraz taking gold in 2012 (he finished 9th this time). Italy received its fourth consecutive silver medal in the men's trap; Giovanni Pellielo was already the only man to have won three medals in the event and now became the only one to have won four. Italy's podium streak reached five Games; three times for Pellielo from 2000 to 2008 and once for Massimo Fabbrizi in 2012 before this competition. Edward Ling's bronze put Great Britain back on the podium in the event for the first time since 2000. The medals were presented by Danka Barteková, IOC member, Slovakia and Olegario Vázquez Raña, President of the International Shooting Sport Federation. Background This was the 22nd appearance of the men's ISSF Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 Metre Pistol
The Women's 25 metre pistol event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 9 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center. The event consisted of three rounds: a qualifier, semifinal and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a pistol at 25 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. The first 30 shots were in the precision stage, with series of 5 shots being shot within 5 minutes. The second set of 30 shots gave shooters 3 seconds to take each shot. The medals were presented by René Fasel, IOC member, Switzerland and Susan Abbott, Council Member of the International Shooting Sport Federation The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) is the governing body of the Olympic shooting events in rifle, pistol and shotgun ( clay target) disciplines, and of several non-Olympic shooting sport events. ISSF's activities include regulati .... Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |