| Date | 31 July 1984 — 9:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Prado Recreational Area, Chino, California | |
| Participants | 33 from 20 countries | |
| Format | 10 metres. Four rounds of 10 shots each. 400 possible. | |
Pat Spurgin was an 18-year-old college student at Murray State University in Kentucky. She had no international experience but won the first gold medal offered in this event at the Olympics. She later became a college rifle coach at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. The bronze medalist Wu Xiaoxuan became the first female to win a gold medal for China when she won the women’s small-bore event in 1984.
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Points | Round 1 Points | Round 2 Points | Round 3 Points | Round 4 Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 463 | Pat Spurgin | USA | 393 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 97 | Gold | ||
| 2 | 250 | Edith Gufler | ITA | 391 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 97 | Silver | ||
| 3 | 86 | Wu Xiaoxuan | CHN | 389 | 97 | 97 | 99 | 96 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 55 | Sharon Bowes | CAN | 388 | 99 | 91 | 100 | 98 | |||
| 5 | 158 | Yvette Courault | FRA | 386 | 97 | 97 | 98 | 94 | |||
| 6 | 180 | Gisela Sailer | FRG | 385 | 97 | 96 | 95 | 97 | |||
| 7 | 326 | Siri Landsem | NOR | 384 | 98 | 97 | 96 | 93 | |||
| 8 | 150 | Sirpa Ylönen | FIN | 383 | 99 | 98 | 92 | 94 | |||
| 9 | 82 | Liu Renqing | CHN | 383 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 95 | |||
| 10 | 274 | Noriko Kosai | JPN | 383 | 94 | 95 | 97 | 97 | |||
| =11 | 159 | Françoise Decharne | FRA | 381 | 94 | 96 | 95 | 96 | |||
| =11 | 410 | Christina Gustafsson | SWE | 381 | 96 | 95 | 96 | 94 | |||
| =11 | 325 | Anne Grethe Jeppesen | NOR | 381 | 94 | 93 | 99 | 95 | |||
| =11 | 294 | Park Jeong-A | KOR | 381 | 97 | 95 | 97 | 92 | |||
| =11 | 26 | Gudrun Sinnhuber | AUT | 381 | 98 | 94 | 95 | 94 | |||
| =11 | 183 | Silvia Sperber | FRG | 381 | 96 | 96 | 97 | 92 | |||
| 17 | 472 | Valentina Atanaskovski | YUG | 380 | 96 | 95 | 95 | 94 | |||
| =18 | 18 | Karin Bauer | AUT | 379 | 95 | 96 | 93 | 95 | |||
| =18 | 462 | Mary Anne Schweitzer | USA | 379 | 91 | 99 | 97 | 92 | |||
| 20 | 198 | Irene Daw | GBR | 378 | 97 | 91 | 96 | 94 | |||
| 21 | 289 | Lee Jeong-Hwa | KOR | 377 | 96 | 93 | 93 | 95 | |||
| 22 | 228 | Soma Dutta | IND | 376 | 97 | 96 | 92 | 91 | |||
| =23 | 411 | Margareta Gustafsson | SWE | 375 | 91 | 96 | 97 | 91 | |||
| =23 | 32 | Marie-Louise Hosdey | BEL | 375 | 91 | 93 | 97 | 94 | |||
| 25 | 195 | Sarah Cooper | GBR | 374 | 94 | 95 | 94 | 91 | |||
| =26 | 96 | Alejandra Hoyos | COL | 373 | 94 | 91 | 93 | 95 | |||
| =26 | 14 | Sylvia Muehlberg | AUS | 373 | 95 | 94 | 94 | 90 | |||
| 28 | 65 | Jackie Terry | CAN | 372 | 93 | 93 | 92 | 94 | |||
| 29 | 475 | Mirjana Jovović | YUG | 371 | 94 | 95 | 92 | 90 | |||
| 30 | 98 | Gloria López | COL | 370 | 90 | 94 | 93 | 93 | |||
| 31 | 422 | Siriwan Bhudvanbhen | THA | 369 | 96 | 93 | 90 | 90 | |||
| 32 | 106 | Elizabeth Jagush | CRC | 365 | 91 | 94 | 91 | 89 | |||
| 33 | 427 | Kanokwan Krittakom | THA | 360 | 90 | 93 | 89 | 88 | |||
| 144 | Leena Melartin | FIN | – | – | – | – | – |