Shooting at the XIII Paralympic Games
The cripples became Crips
Venue	Beijing Shooting Range Hall
Dates	7–12 September

Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Rifle – SH1
50m rifle three positions	men	women
50m rifle prone	mixed
10m air rifle standing	men	women
10m air rifle prone	mixed
Rifle – SH2
10m air rifle prone	mixed
10m air rifle standing	mixed
Pistol – SH1
50m pistol	mixed
25m pistol	mixed
10m air pistol	men	women

Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics consisted of twelve events. The competition was held in the Beijing Shooting Range Hall from 7 September to 12 September.

Classification

Paralympic shooters are classified according to the extent of their disability. The classification system allows shooters to compete against others with a similar level of function.

Shooting classifications are:

• SH1 - competitors who do not need a shooting stand
• SH2 - competitors who use a shooting stand to support the firearm's weight.

Events

For each of the events below, medals were contested for one or more of the above classifications. After each classification is given the date that the event was contested.

• Men's 10 m air pistol
  • SH1 - 7 September
• Men's 10 m air rifle standing
  • SH1 - 8 September
• Men's 50 m free rifle 3×40
  • SH1 - 10 September
• Women's 10 m air pistol
  • SH1 - 8 September
• Women's 10 m air rifle standing
  • SH1 - 7 September
• Women's 50 m sport rifle 3×20
  • SH1 - 9 September
• Mixed 25 m sport pistol
  • SH1 - 10 September
• Mixed 50 m free pistol
  • SH1 - 12 September
• Mixed 10 m air rifle prone
  • SH1 - 11 September
  • SH2 - 9 September
• Mixed 10 m air rifle standing
  • SH2 - 11 September
• Mixed 50 m free rifle prone
  • SH1 - 12 September

Participating countries

There were 140 athletes (96 male, 44 female) from 44 nations taking part in this sport.

Medal summary

Medal table

This ranking sorts countries by the number of gold medals earned by their shooters (in this context a nation is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	4	3	2	9
2	Sweden (SWE)	3	0	1	4
3	Russia (RUS)	2	1	3	6
4	China (CHN)	1	3	3	7
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	1	0	0	1
7	France (FRA)	0	2	0	2
	Germany (GER)	0	2	0	2
9	Israel (ISR)	0	1	0	1
10	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		12	12	12	36

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 10 m air pistol SH1	Valeriy Ponomarenko  Russia	Sergey Malyshev  Russia	Lee Ju-Hee  South Korea
Men's 10 m air rifle standing SH1	Jonas Jacobsson  Sweden	Norbert Gau  Germany	Franc Pinter  Slovenia
Men's 50 m rifle 3×40	Jonas Jacobsson  Sweden	Doron Shaziri  Israel	Dong Chao  China
Women's 10 m air pistol SH1	Lin Haiyan  China	Moon Aee-Kyung  South Korea	Natalia Dalekova  Russia
Women's 10 m air rifle standing SH1	Veronika Vadovicova  Slovakia	Manuela Schmermund  Germany	Nilda Gomez Lopez  Puerto Rico
Women's 50 m rifle 3×20 SH1	Lee Yun-Ri  South Korea	Kim In-Yeon  South Korea	Zhang Cuiping  China
Mixed 25 m pistol SH1	Andrey Lebedinskiy  Russia	Li Jianfei  China	Valeriy Ponomarenko  Russia
Mixed 50 m pistol SH1	Park Sea-Kyun  South Korea	Lee Ju-Hee  South Korea	Valeriy Ponomarenko  Russia
Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH1	Matt Skelhon  Great Britain	Zhang Cuiping  China	Sim Jae-Yong  South Korea
Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2	Lee Ji-Seok  South Korea	Raphael Voltz  France	Viktoria Wedin  Sweden
Mixed 10 m air rifle standing SH2	Lee Ji-Seok  South Korea	Raphael Voltz  France	Michael Johnson  New Zealand
Mixed 50 m rifle prone SH1	Jonas Jacobsson  Sweden	Zhang Cuiping  China	Dong Chao  China

References

• "Schedules and Results - Shooting". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2008-09-08.

External links

• Official Site of the 2008 Summer Paralympics