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Free pistol at the Olympics

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ISSF 50 meter pistol
at the Olympic Games
Alfred Lane, 1912 Olympic pistol champion
Overview
SportShooting
GenderMen
Years heldMen: 1896, 1900, 19081920, 19362016
Reigning champion
Men Jin Jong-oh (KOR)

The "free" pistol is former and still unofficially used name for the men's ISSF 50 meter pistol competition held at the Olympics. "Free" pistol is used to distinguish between other pistol disciplines (air, rapid fire, standard, sport, military/centre-fire). The competition was first held at the inaugural 1896 Olympics (at 30 metres) and then held at 50 metres (or yards, in 1908) each time that shooting was on the programme (that is, excluding 1904) until 1920. It was dropped from the programme for amateurism reasons from 1924 to 1932, but returned in 1936. It was held again at every Games from then until 2016; the event, which had no women's equivalent, was dropped after 2016 to make room for a mixed team air pistol event as the sport moved toward gender equality. In all, the event was held 24 times.[1] The event was open to women from 1968 to 1980, although very few women participated these years.

A team event was held four times from 1904 to 1920.

Medals

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Men

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
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Sumner Paine
 United States
Holger Nielsen
 Denmark
Ioannis Frangoudis
 Greece
1900 Paris
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Karl Röderer
 Switzerland
Achille Paroche
 France
Konrad Stäheli
 Switzerland
1904 St. Louis Not held
1908 London
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Paul Van Asbroeck
 Belgium
Réginald Storms
 Belgium
James Gorman
 United States
1912 Stockholm
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Alfred Lane
 United States
Peter Dolfen
 United States
Charles Stewart
 Great Britain
1920 Antwerp
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Karl Frederick
 United States
Afrânio da Costa
 Brazil
Alfred Lane
 United States
1924 Paris Not held
1928 Amsterdam Not held
1932 Los Angeles Not held
1936 Berlin
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Torsten Ullman
 Sweden
Erich Krempel
 Germany
Charles des Jammonières
 France
1948 London
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Edwin Vásquez
 Peru
Rudolf Schnyder
 Switzerland
Torsten Ullman
 Sweden
1952 Helsinki
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Huelet Benner
 United States
Ángel León
 Spain
Ambrus Balogh
 Hungary
1956 Melbourne
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Pentti Linnosvuo
 Finland
Makhmud Umarov
 Soviet Union
Offutt Pinion
 United States
1960 Rome
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Aleksey Gushchin
 Soviet Union
Makhmud Umarov
 Soviet Union
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa
 Japan
1964 Tokyo
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Väinö Markkanen
 Finland
Franklin Green
 United States
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa
 Japan
1968 Mexico City
details (mixed)
Grigory Kosykh
 Soviet Union
Heinz Mertel
 West Germany
Harald Vollmar
 East Germany
1972 Munich
details (mixed)
Ragnar Skanåker
 Sweden
Daniel Iuga
 Romania
Rudolf Dollinger
 Austria
1976 Montreal
details (mixed)
Uwe Potteck
 East Germany
Harald Vollmar
 East Germany
Rudolf Dollinger
 Austria
1980 Moscow
details (mixed)
Aleksandr Melentyev
 Soviet Union
Harald Vollmar
 East Germany
Lyubcho Dyakov
 Bulgaria
1984 Los Angeles
details
Xu Haifeng
 China
Ragnar Skanåker
 Sweden
Wang Yifu
 China
1988 Seoul
details
Sorin Babii
 Romania
Ragnar Skanåker
 Sweden
Igor Basinski
 Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona
details
Kanstantsin Lukashyk
 Unified Team
Wang Yifu
 China
Ragnar Skanåker
 Sweden
1996 Atlanta
details
Boris Kokorev
 Russia
Igor Basinski
 Belarus
Roberto Di Donna
 Italy
2000 Sydney
details
Tanyu Kiryakov
 Bulgaria
Igor Basinski
 Belarus
Martin Tenk
 Czech Republic
2004 Athens
details
Mikhail Nestruyev
 Russia
Jin Jong-oh
 South Korea
Kim Jong-su
 North Korea
2008 Beijing
details
Jin Jong-oh
 South Korea
Tan Zongliang
 China
Vladimir Isakov
 Russia
2012 London
details
Jin Jong-Oh
 South Korea
Choi Young-Rae
 South Korea
Wang Zhiwei
 China
2016 Rio de Janeiro
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Jin Jong-oh
 South Korea
Hoàng Xuân Vinh
 Vietnam
Kim Song-guk
 North Korea

Multiple medalists

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Rank Gymnast Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Jin Jong-oh  South Korea (KOR) 2004–2016 3 1 0 4
2 Ragnar Skanåker  Sweden (SWE) 1972, 1984–1992 1 2 1 4
3 Alfred Lane  United States (USA) 1912–1920 1 0 1 2
Torsten Ullman  Sweden (SWE) 1936–1948 1 0 1 2
5 Harald Vollmar  East Germany (GDR) 1968, 1976–1980 0 2 1 3
Igor Basinski  Soviet Union (URS)
 Belarus (BLR)
1988, 1996–2000 0 2 1 3
7 Makhmud Umarov  Soviet Union (URS) 1956–1960 0 2 0 2
8 Wang Yifu  China (CHN) 1988–1992 0 1 1 2
9 Yoshihisa Yoshikawa  Japan (JPN) 1960–1964 0 0 2 2
Rudolf Dollinger  Austria (AUT) 1972–1976 0 0 2 2

Medalists by nation

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States (USA) 4 2 3 9
2  Soviet Union (URS) 3 2 1 6
3  South Korea (KOR) 3 2 0 5
4  Sweden (SWE) 2 2 2 6
5  Russia (RUS) 2 0 1 3
6  Finland (FIN) 2 0 0 2
7  China (CHN) 1 2 2 5
8  East Germany (GDR) 1 2 1 4
9  Switzerland (SUI) 1 1 1 3
10  Belgium (BEL) 1 1 0 2
 Romania (ROU) 1 1 0 2
12  Bulgaria (BUL) 1 0 1 2
13  Peru (PER) 1 0 0 1
 Unified Team (EUN) 1 0 0 1
15  Belarus (BLR) 0 2 0 2
16  France (FRA) 0 1 1 2
17  Brazil (BRA) 0 1 0 1
 Denmark (DEN) 0 1 0 1
 Germany (GER) 0 1 0 1
 West Germany (FRG) 0 1 0 1
 Spain (ESP) 0 1 0 1
 Vietnam (VIE) 0 1 0 1
23  Austria (AUT) 0 0 2 2
 Japan (JPN) 0 0 2 2
 North Korea (PRK) 0 0 2 2
26  Czech Republic (CZE) 0 0 1 1
 Great Britain (GBR) 0 0 1 1
 Greece (GRE) 0 0 1 1
 Hungary (HUN) 0 0 1 1
 Italy (ITA) 0 0 1 1

Team pistol

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Men

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
1900 Paris
details
Friedrich Lüthi, Paul Probst, Louis Richardet, Karl Röderer, Konrad Stäheli
 Switzerland
Louis Duffoy, Maurice Lecoq, Léon Moreaux, Achille Paroche, Jules Trinité
 France
Solko van den Bergh, Antonius Bouwens, Dirk Boest Gips, Henrik Sillem, Anthony Sweijs
 Netherlands
1908 London
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Charles Axtell, Irving Calkins, John Dietz, James Gorman
 United States
René Englebert, Charles Paumier du Verger, Réginald Storms, Paul Van Asbroeck
 Belgium
Geoffrey Coles, William Ellicott, Henry Lynch-Staunton, Jesse Wallingford
 Great Britain
1912 Stockholm
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John Dietz, Peter Dolfen, Alfred Lane, Henry Sears
 United States
Erik Boström, Eric Carlberg, Vilhelm Carlberg, Georg de Laval
 Sweden
Hugh Durant, Albert Kempster, Horatio Poulter, Charles Stewart
 Great Britain
1920 Antwerp
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Raymond Bracken, Karl Frederick, Michael Kelly, Alfred Lane, James H. Snook
 United States
Anders Andersson, Gunnar Gabrielsson, Sigvard Hultcrantz, Anders Johnson, Casimir Reuterskiöld
 Sweden
Dario Barbosa, Afrânio da Costa, Guilherme Paraense, Fernando Soledade, Sebastião Wolf
 Brazil

Multiple medalists

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Rank Gymnast Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 John Dietz  United States (USA) 1908–1912 2 0 0 2
Alfred Lane  United States (USA) 1912–1920 2 0 0 2

Medalists by nation

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States (USA) 3 0 0 3
2  Switzerland (SUI) 1 0 0 1
3  Sweden (SWE) 0 2 0 2
4  Belgium (BEL) 0 1 0 1
 France (FRA) 0 1 0 1
6  Great Britain (GBR) 0 0 2 2
7  Brazil (BRA) 0 0 1 1
 Netherlands (NED) 0 0 1 1

References

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  1. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2020.