2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships - World Records

World Records

Several world records were equalled or bettered in Lahti. Especially in women's 300 m Rifle and women's running target,both non-Olympic (so there are few other occasions for them) and both relatively new on the program, were records wiped away.

Event Score Competitor Nationality
Men's individual world records
300 m Standard Rifle 589 Marcel Buerge Switzerland
25 m Center-Fire Pistol 590 Park Byung Taek South Korea
10 m Running Target (Qualification round) 588 Yang Ling China
Women's individual world records
300 m Rifle Three Positions 588 Charlotte Jakobsen Denmark
300 m Rifle Prone 594 Charlotte Jakobsen Denmark
50 m Rifle Prone 597 Olga Dovgun Kazakhstan
10 m Running Target 391 Xu Xuan China
10 m Running Target Mixed 390 Audrey Soquet France
Junior Men's individual world records
25 m Standard Pistol 574 Denis Koulakov Russia
10 m Running Target Mixed 384 Dmitry Romanov Russia
Junior Women's individual world records
Trap 67 Sun Dongni China
10 m Running Target 391 Xu Xuan China
Men's team world records
300 m Rifle Three Positions 3511 Czech Republic
300 m Standard Rifle 1744 Switzerland
10 m Air Rifle 1785 Russia
10 m Running Target 1733 Germany
Women's team world records
300 m Rifle Three Positions 1726 Denmark
Sweden (tied)
10 m Air Rifle 1190 China
10 m Running Target 1150 China
10 m Running Target Mixed 1149 China
Junior Men's team world records
10 m Air Rifle 1771 China
Junior Women's team world records
10 m Air Pistol 1146 China
10 m Running Target Mixed 1098 Russia

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