Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics
| Shooting at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Royal Artillery Barracks | 
| Dates | 28 July – 6 August 2012 | 
| 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 | 
Shooting competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place from 28 July to 6 August at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich. Fifteen events were included with 390 athletes taking part.[1] The events were the same as in 2008.
The competitions were originally planned for the National Shooting Centre in Bisley, Surrey, and the temporary solution at the Royal Artillery Barracks (which is in the River Zone) was adopted later after the International Olympic Committee expressed concerns about the distance between London and Bisley.
Since the pistols used in the 25m and 50m shooting events were deemed by HM Government as prohibited[2] in England, Scotland and Wales after the Dunblane Massacre, special dispensation had to be granted by the UK Government and security criteria met by LOCOG to allow certain events to go ahead.
Qualification
    
The qualification system was similar to that used for previous Games, with a fixed number of quota places divided among the nations whose shooters place well at the top-level global and continental championships. However, due to new IOC regulations mandating that all qualification events take place during the last 24 months before the Olympics, no such quota places were awarded during the 2009 ISSF World Cup or the 2010 ISSF World Cup, leading to decreased interest in these competitions to the point where the 2010 competition planned for New Delhi had to be rescheduled and moved to Australia. The International Shooting Sport Federation announced that qualification would commence with the 2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Munich, which ended on 10 August, almost exactly two years before the Olympics.
Great Britain did not qualify spots through the World Championship, rather its places were guaranteed due to it being the host nation, however it could qualify shooters to the other events. Iran was the only country that did not send shooters to the 2008 Summer Olympics to have qualified a shooter for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[3]
Schedule
    
| Q | Qualification | F | Final | 
| Event↓/Date → | Sat 28 | Sun 29 | Mon 30 | Tue 31 | Wed 1 | Thu 2 | Fri 3 | Sat 4 | Sun 5 | Mon 6 | ||||||||||
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| Rifle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 10 m air rifle | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 50 m rifle prone | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Women's 10 m air rifle | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pistol | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 10 m air pistol | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 50 m pistol | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Women's 10 m air pistol | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Women's 25 m pistol | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shotgun | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's trap | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Men's double trap | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Men's skeet | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Women's trap | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
| Women's skeet | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal summary
    
    Medal table
    
* Host nation (Great Britain)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | 
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| 1 |  South Korea | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 
| 2 |  United States | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 
| 3 |  Italy | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 
| 4 |  China | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 
| 5 | .svg.png.webp) Belarus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 
|  Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
|  Cuba | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
|  Great Britain* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
|  Romania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 |  France | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 
|  India | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
|  Serbia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
|  Slovakia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 14 | .svg.png.webp) Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
|  Denmark | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
|  Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
|  Sweden | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 18 |  Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 
| 19 |  Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 
|  Kuwait | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
|  Qatar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
|  Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
|  Slovenia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (23 entries) | 15 | 15 | 15 | 45 | |
Men's events
    
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | 
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| 10 m air rifle | Alin Moldoveanu  Romania | Niccolò Campriani  Italy | Gagan Narang  India | 
| 50 m rifle prone | Sergei Martynov .svg.png.webp) Belarus WR | Lionel Cox .svg.png.webp) Belgium | Rajmond Debevec  Slovenia | 
| 50 m rifle three positions | Niccolò Campriani  Italy OR | Kim Jong-hyun  South Korea | Matthew Emmons  United States | 
| 10 m air pistol | Jin Jong-oh  South Korea | Luca Tesconi  Italy | Andrija Zlatić  Serbia | 
| 25 m rapid fire pistol | Leuris Pupo  Cuba | Vijay Kumar  India | Ding Feng  China | 
| 50 m pistol | Jin Jong-oh  South Korea | Choi Young-rae  South Korea | Wang Zhiwei  China | 
| Skeet | Vincent Hancock  United States | Anders Golding  Denmark | Nasser Al-Attiyah  Qatar | 
| Trap | Giovanni Cernogoraz  Croatia | Massimo Fabbrizi  Italy | Fehaid Al-Deehani  Kuwait | 
| Double trap | Peter Wilson  Great Britain | Håkan Dahlby  Sweden | Vasily Mosin  Russia | 
Women's events
    
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 m air rifle | Yi Siling  China | Sylwia Bogacka  Poland | Yu Dan  China | 
| 50 m rifle three positions | Jamie Lynn Gray  United States OR | Ivana Maksimović  Serbia | Adéla Sýkorová  Czech Republic | 
| 10 m air pistol | Guo Wenjun  China | Céline Goberville  France | Olena Kostevych  Ukraine | 
| 25 m pistol | Kim Jang-mi  South Korea | Chen Ying  China | Olena Kostevych  Ukraine | 
| Skeet | Kim Rhode  United States WR | Wei Ning  China | Danka Barteková  Slovakia | 
| Trap | Jessica Rossi  Italy WR | Zuzana Štefečeková  Slovakia | Delphine Réau  France | 
References
    
- "Shooting". 2011. Archived from the original on 1 September 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ""Firearms Act 1996 Section 5"". 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
- "Olympic Quota Places". International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
External links
    
 Media related to Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons
 Media related to Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons
- Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics. London2012.com. at the UK Government Web Archive (archived 28 February 2013)
- Official results book – Shooting. London2012.com. at the Wayback Machine (archived 11 May 2013)
- Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)

