Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol

Women's 10 metre air pistol at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Shooting Range Hall
Date	August 10, 2008
Competitors	44 from 30 nations
Winning score	492.3 (OR)
Medalists
01 ! Guo Wenjun  China 02 ! Natalia Paderina  Russia 03 ! Nino Salukvadze  Georgia
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01 !		Guo Wenjun	China
02 !		Natalia Paderina	Russia
03 !		Nino Salukvadze	Georgia

The Women's 10 metre air pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 10 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall. Natalia Paderina of Russia set a new Olympic record in the qualification round with 391 points out of 400, but entering the final Guo Wenjun was only one point behind and through the last ten shots emerged as the winner. After the competition, Paderina (silver) and Georgian veteran Nino Salukvadze (bronze) posed together, showing the world that their friendship was unaffected by the newly broken-out war in South Ossetia, which only a day earlier had threatened Salukvadze's participation in the Olympics; Salukvadze took the opportunity to take a stand for a peaceful solution.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 40 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 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 50 shots was used to determine final ranking.

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

Both Olympic records were broken during the competition: the qualification record was raised to 391 by Natalia Paderina and the final record to 492.3 (390+102.3) by Guo Wenjun.

DNF Did not finish – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

OR Olympic record