The Women's skeet event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.

[1] The event consisted of three rounds: a qualifier, semifinal and a final.

In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 sets of 25 shots in the set order of skeet shooting.

Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.