| Date | 20 July 1996 |
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| Status | Olympic |
| Location | Wolf Creek Shooting Complex, Atlanta, Georgia |
| Participants | 49 from 30 countries |
Germany’s Petra Horneber led the qualifying with 397 and was ahead for most of the final. However, on her final shot, leading by 1.7 points, she fired only an 8.8, allowing Renata Mauer (POL) to pull ahead with a 10.7 to win by 0.2 points. Four days later, Mauer led the small-bore rifle after the preliminaries but dropped back to a bronze medal. The bronze medalist in this event, Serbian Aleksandra Ivošev, won the gold medal in the small-bore event.
| Date | 20 July 1996 — 9:00 |
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| Format | 10 metres. Four rounds of 10 shots each. 400 possible. |
| Date | 20 July 1996 — 11:00 |
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| Format | Top 8 from preliminary round advanced to the final round. |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Total Points | Preliminary Round Points | Final Round Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renata Mauer | 497.6 | 395 | 102.6 | |||
| 2 | Petra Horneber | 497.4 | 397 | 100.4 | |||
| 3 | Aleksandra Ivošev | 497.2 | 395 | 102.2 | |||
| 4 | Valérie Bellenoue | 496.6 | 395 | 101.6 | |||
| 5 | Volha Pahrebniak | 496.4 | 394 | 102.4 | |||
| 6 | Marta Nedvědová | 495.1 | 395 | 100.1 | |||
| 7 | Éva Joó | 494.5 | 393 | 101.5 | |||
| 8 | Lesia Leskiv | 494.2 | 394 | 100.2 |