2016 Asian Olympic Shooting Qualifying Tournament Explained

The 2016 Asian Olympic Shooting Qualifying Tournament was held in New Delhi, India between January 27 and February 3. This tournament was the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, after the 2015 Asian Shooting Championships was stripped of its status after the IOC suspended Kuwait NOC.^[1]

The National Rifle Association of India hosted this international competition at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi.^[2] The competition had three separate disciplines: Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun.

Participating nations

A total of 538 shooters representing 30 countries participated in this event.

• (hosts)

Medal summary

Rifle events

Rank	Individual	Team	Report		Rank	Individual	Team	Report
Men's 50 m Rifle Three Positions					Women's 50 m Rifle Three Positions
			[3]			Xiang Wei Jasmine Ser		[4]
						Mahlagha Jambozorg
						Kyerim Lee
Men's 50 m Rifle Prone					No Competition
			[5]
Men's 10 m Air Rifle					Women's 10 m Air Rifle
			[6]					[7]

Pistol events

Rank	Individual	Team	Report		Rank	Individual	Team	Report
Men's 50 m Pistol					No Competition
			[8]
Men's 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
			[9]
Men's 10 m Air Pistol					Women's 10 m Air Pistol
			[10]					[11]
Women's 25 m Pistol					No Competition
			[12]

ShotGun events

Rank	Individual	Team	Report		Rank	Individual	Team	Report
Trap Men					Trap Women
			[13]					[14]
Skeet Men					Skeet Women
			[15]					[16]
Double Trap Men					No Competition
			[17]

Medal table

Final standing.^[18]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1		5	0	2	7
2		3	2	5	10
3		2	0	1	3
4	Independent Olympic Athlete	1	2	1	4
5		1	1	2	4
6		1	1	1	3
7		1	0	0	1
7		1	0	0	1
9		0	2	0	2
9		0	2	0	2
9		0	2	0	2
12		0	1	2	3
13		0	1	1	2
14		0	1	0	1
Total		15	15	15	45

2016 Olympic Quota Obtained

Event	Athlete	Nation	References
Men's 50 m Rifle Three Positions	Sanjeev Rajput		[19]
	Vitaliy Dovgun
	Napis Tortungpanich
Women's 50 m Rifle Three Positions	Jasmine Ser		[20]
	Mahlagha Jambozorg
	Lee Kyerim
Men's 50 m Rifle Prone	Kim Jong-hyun
	Attapon Uea-aree
Men's 10 m Air Rifle	Naoya Okada
	Pouria Norouzian
Women's 10 m Air Rifle	Ayonika Paul
	Lee Eun-seo
Men's 50 m Pistol	Kim Song-guk
	Kim Jong-su
Men's 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol	Teruyoshi Akiyama
	Eita Mori
Men's 10 m Air Pistol	Jonathan Wong		[21]
	Atallah Alanazi
Women's 10 m Air Pistol	Heena Sidhu
	Golnoush Sebghatollahi
Women's 25 m Pistol	Koh Eun		[22]
	Akiko Sato
	Teo Shun Xie
Trap Men	Abdulrahman Al-Faihan
	Yang Kun-pi
	Kynan Chenai
	Andrey Mogilevskiy
Trap Women	Li Qingnian
Skeet Men	Abdullah Al-Rashidi
	Saud Habib
	Rashid Saleh Hamad
	Saeed Al Maktoum
Skeet Women	Naoko Ishihara
Double Trap Men	Khaled Al-Kaabi
	Fehaid Al-Deehani

2016 Olympic Quota Obtained by Nations and Independent Athletes

A total of 35 quota places for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be awarded based on this event.

Nation	Quota Obtained	No. Events
	1	1
	1	1
	4	4
	3	3
	5	4
	1	1
	4	3
	1	1
	2	1
	2	2
	1	1
	2	2
	4	4
	2	2
	2	2
Total	35	15

References

1. Web site: "Asia Olympic Qualifying Competition for Shooting" to take place in New Delhi. ISSF. 2016-01-24.
2. Web site: Asia Olympic Qualifying Competition is about to start in New Delhi. ISSF. 2016-01-24.
3. Web site: Result 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men. www.issf-sports.org. 2016-02-02.
4. Web site: Result 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women. www.issf-sports.org. 2016-01-31.
5. Web site: Result 50m Rifle Prone Men. www.issf-sports.org. 2016-01-27.
6. Web site: Naoya Okada grabs Japan’s fourth Gold medal in the Air Rifle Men event in New Delhi. ISSF. 2016-01-30.
7. Web site: Iran’s Najmeh Khedmati grabs the Air Rifle Gold, India gets Silver, Bronze and a quota. ISSF. 2016-01-30.
8. Web site: Tomoyuki Matsuda claims Japan’s third Gold medal in three days. ISSF. 2016-01-30.
9. Web site: Japan takes all in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men: Gold, Bronze and two Olympic quotas. ISSF. 2016-01-30.
10. Web site: Result 10m Air Pistol Men. www.issf-sports.org. 2016-02-01.
11. Web site: Result 10m Air Pistol Women. www.issf-sports.org. 2016-01-27.
12. Web site: Result 25m Pistol Women. www.issf-sports.org. 2016-01-31.
13. Web site: Result Trap Men. www.issf-sports.org. 2016-01-28.
14. Web site: Japan’s Nakayama got the Gold, China’s Li got the quota in the Trap Women final. ISSF. 2016-01-27.
15. Web site: Result Skeet Men. www.issf-sports.org. 2016-02-02.
16. Web site: Result Skeet Women. www.issf-sports.org. 2016-02-02.
17. Web site: UAE’s Khaled Alkaabi collects the Double Trap Men Gold medal in New Delhi. ISSF. 2016-01-30.
18. Web site: UAE’s Saif Bin Futtais secures the Skeet Men Gold in the closing event of the Asia Olympic Qualifying Competition. ISSF. 2016-02-02.
19. Web site: Kim Jonghyun claims the top of the 3 Positions podium, wins his second Gold in New Delhi. ISSF. 2016-02-02.
20. Web site: Singapore collects its first Gold with Xiang Wei Jasmine Ser, also grabs the quota. ISSF. 2016-02-02.
21. Web site: Johnathan Wong wins Malaysia’s first Gold medal in New Delhi. ISSF. 2016-02-01.
22. Web site: South Korea takes all the 25m Pistol Women medals, Koh Eun wins the Gold. ISSF. 2016-02-01.

Official website

• http://www.thenrai.in/
• ISSF Website