Competitors 21 from 17 nations Venue Olympic Shooting Centre | Date 12 August 2016 | |
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Winning score 15/16 (in the gold medal match) Location Olympic Shooting Centre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
The Women's skeet event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.
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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.
References
Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA