Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's skeet
| Women's skeet at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Aerial view of the National Shooting Center in Deodoro, where the women's skeet event took place.
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| Venue | National Shooting Center | ||||||||||||
| Date | 12 August 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 21 from 17 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 15/16 (in the gold medal match) | ||||||||||||
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Diana Bacosi |
 Italy
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Chiara Cainero |
Italy
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Kim Rhode |
 United States
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The Women's skeet event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 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 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.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
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