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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.
Venue National Shooting Center
Date 12 August 2016
Competitors 21 from 17 nations
Winning score 15/16 (in the gold medal match)
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Diana Bacosi  Italy
2nd, silver medalist(s) Chiara Cainero  Italy
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Kim Rhode  United States
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1st, gold medalist(s) Diana Bacosi  Italy
2nd, silver medalist(s) Chiara Cainero  Italy
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Kim Rhode  United States

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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