| Women's 10 metre air rifle at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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| Venue | Royal Artillery Barracks | ||||||||||||
| Date | 28 July 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 56 from 41 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 502.9 | ||||||||||||
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Yi Siling |
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Sylwia Bogacka |
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Yu Dan |
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The Women's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 28 July 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 40 shots with an air rifle at 10 metres distance from the standing position. 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.