| Women's skeet at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Royal Artillery Barracks | ||||||||||||
| Date | 29 July 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 17 from 17 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning Score | 99 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Qualification | ||
| Rifle | ||
| 50 m rifle three positions | men | women |
| 50 m rifle prone | men | |
| 10 m air rifle | men | women |
| Pistol | ||
| 50 m pistol | men | |
| 25 m pistol | women | |
| 25 m rapid fire pistol | men | |
| 10 m air pistol | men | women |
| Shotgun | ||
| Trap | men | women |
| Double trap | men | |
| Skeet | men | women |
TheWomen'sskeet event at the2012 Olympic Games took place on 29 July 2012 at theRoyal Artillery Barracks.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 sets of 25 shots in the set order ofskeet shooting.
The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25. The total score from all 100 shots was used to determine final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| Qualification records | ||||
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| World record |  Kim Rhode (USA) | 75 | Tucson,United States | 25 March 2012 |
| Olympic record |  Chiara Cainero (ITA) | 72 | Beijing,China | 14 August 2008 |
| Final records | ||||
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| World record |  Danka Barteková (SVK) | 99 (74+25) | Nicosia,Cyprus | 9 July 2008 |
| Olympic record | Chiara Cainero (ITA) Kim Rhode (USA) Christine Brinker (GER) | 93 (72+21) 93 (70+23) 93 (70+23) | Beijing,China | 14 August 2008 |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | Tie Break | Total | Notes |
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| 1 | Kim Rhode | United States | 25 | 25 | 24 | 74 | Q,OR | |
| 2 | Danka Barteková | Slovakia | 25 | 22 | 23 | 70 | Q | |
| 3 | Marina Belikova |  Russia | 24 | 23 | 22 | 69 | Q | |
| 4 | Wei Ning |  China | 24 | 19 | 25 | 68 | Q | |
| 5 | Christine Wenzel | Germany | 22 | 23 | 23 | 68 | Q | |
| 6 | Chiara Cainero | Italy | 22 | 21 | 24 | 2 | 67 | Q |
| 7 | Therese Lundqvist |  Sweden | 22 | 22 | 23 | 1 | 67 | |
| 8 | Francisca Crovetto |  Chile | 22 | 22 | 22 | 66 | ||
| 9 | Angelina Michshuk |  Kazakhstan | 22 | 22 | 22 | 66 | ||
| 10 | Veronique Girardet |  France | 22 | 23 | 21 | 66 | ||
| 11 | Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit |  Thailand | 20 | 23 | 22 | 65 | ||
| 12 | Lucia Liliana Mihalache |  Romania | 25 | 20 | 20 | 65 | ||
| 13 | Çiğdem Özyaman |  Turkey | 23 | 20 | 20 | 63 | ||
| 14 | Elena Allen |  Great Britain | 20 | 20 | 20 | 60 | ||
| 15 | Lauryn Mark |  Australia | 17 | 22 | 20 | 59 | ||
| 16 | Panagiota Andreou |  Cyprus | 15 | 22 | 20 | 57 | ||
| 17 | Mona El-Hawary |  Egypt | 14 | 20 | 17 | 51 |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | QF | Final | Total | Bronze Medal Tie Break | Notes |
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 | Kim Rhode | United States | 74 | 25 | 99 | =WR, OR | |
 | Wei Ning | China | 68 | 23 | 91 | ||
 | Danka Barteková | Slovakia | 70 | 20 | 90 | 4 | |
| 4 | Marina Belikova | Russia | 69 | 21 | 90 | 3 | |
| 5 | Chiara Cainero | Italy | 67 | 22 | 89 | ||
| 6 | Christine Wenzel | Germany | 68 | 21 | 89 |
Olympic champions in women'sskeet | |
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From 1972 to 1992, the skeet event was open to both men and women.Zhang Shan won this event in 1992, the only woman to do so. |
