page_title: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics
section_title: Medal summary
hierarchical_section_title: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics / Medal summary
caption_attribution_description: English: Nancy Johnson (sport shooter), Olympic shooter. Gold medalist Nancy Johnson (center) of the U.S., raises her hands with silver medalist Cho-Hyun Kang (left), of Korea, and bronze winner Jing Gao (right), of China, during the medal ceremony for the women's 10 meter air rifle competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 16, 2000. Johnson's gold medal is the first awarded in the Sydney Games and the first gold for the U.S. Johnson is married to U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ken Johnson, who is also on the U.S. Olympic shooting team.
context_page_description: 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.
  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.
caption: 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.
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