Sports shooting at the Olympics
Shootingat the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Pictogram for Shooting
Dates 16–23 September
The shooting competitions at the 2000 Summer Olympics were carried out at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Liverpool , New South Wales , Australia during the first week of the Games, from Saturday 16 September 2000 to Saturday 23 September 2000.[ 1]
While the rifle, pistol and running target rules were largely unchanged from the Atlanta Games , two new events were added, raising the number of individual Olympic shooting events to an all-time high of seventeen.
Medal summary
Women's 10 metre air rifle : Nancy Johnson (center), Kang Cho-hyun (left), and Gao Jing (right) won the first medals of the 2000 Olympic Games.
Men's skeet : Mykola Milchev (center), Petr Málek (left) and James Graves (right) won the last Sydney shooting medals.
Medal table
Men's events
Women's events
Participating nations
A total of 408 shooters, 262 men and 146 women, from 103 nations competed at the Sydney Games:[ 1]
References
External links
Editions Current events Former events
free rifle
300 m 3 pos
300 m prone
300 m kneeling
300 m standing
300 m team 3 pos
600 m
1000 yd
military rifle
200 m
300 m 3 pos
300 m prone
300 m standing
300 m team prone
300 m team standing
600 m prone
600 m team prone
300 m & 600 m team prone
small-bore rifle
disappearing target
moving target
stationary target
25 m
25 m team
50 m team
running deer
single shot
single shot team
double shot
double shot team
single & double shot
running target
free pistol
rapid fire pistol
military pistol
trap