The Women's skeet event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.
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.
Results Qualification round RankAthleteCountry1 23Tie breakTotalNotes 1 Wei Meng 23 25 25 73 Q, 2 Kim Rhode 23 25 24 72 Q 3 Diana Bacosi 25 23 24 72 Q 4 Chiara Cainero 24 22 24 70 Q 5 Amber Hill 23 24 23 70 Q 6 Morgan Craft 24 24 21 +2 69 Q 7 Albina Shakirova 21 23 25 +1 69 8 Melisa Gil 23 21 25 +1 69 9 Wei Ning 24 20 24 68 10 Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit 23 22 23 68 11 Christine Wenzel 22 24 22 68 12 Aleksandra Jarmolińska 23 23 22 68 13 Chloe Tipple 21 23 23 67 14 Elena Allen 23 18 23 64 15 Andri Eleftheriou 21 21 22 64 16 Danka Barteková 22 20 22 64 17 Aislin Jones 21 20 22 63 18 Naoko Ishihara 18 20 24 62 19 Francisca Crovetto 21 22 19 62 20 Libuše Jahodová 18 19 21 58 21 Daniela Carraro 19 19 20 58
Semifinal RankAthleteCountryTotalTie breakNotes1Chiara Cainero 16 Gold Medal Match2Diana Bacosi 15 Gold Medal Match3Wei Meng 14 +4 Bronze Medal Match 4Kim Rhode 14 +4 Bronze Medal Match 5Morgan Craft 14 +3 6Amber Hill 13
Final (medal matches) RankAthleteCountryTotalTie breakNotesDiana Bacosi 15 Chiara Cainero 14 Kim Rhode 15 +7 4Wei Meng 15 +6
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