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Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

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Men's 50 metre pistol
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Pentti Linnosvuo (1964)
VenueWilliamstown shooting range
Date30 November
Competitors33 from 22 nations
Winning score556
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pentti Linnosvuo
 Finland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Makhmud Umarov
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Offutt Pinion
 United States
← 1952
1960 →

The men's ISSF 50 meter pistol was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics programme. It was the ninth appearance of the event. The competition was held on 30 November 1956 at the shooting ranges in Melbourne. 33 shooters from 22 nations competed.[1] Nations had been limited to two shooters each since the 1952 Games. The winner was Pentti Linnosvuo of Finland, the nation's first medal in the free pistol. The Soviet Union also won its first medal in the event, with Makhmud Umarov's silver. American Offutt Pinion took bronze.

Background

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This was the ninth appearance of the ISSF 50 meter pistol event. The event was held at every Summer Olympics from 1896 to 1920 (except 1904, when no shooting events were held) and from 1936 to 2016; it was nominally open to women from 1968 to 1980, although very few women participated these years. 1896 and 1908 were the only Games in which the distance was not 50 metres; the former used 30 metres and the latter 50 yards.[2][3]

Two of the top 10 shooters from the 1952 Games returned: gold medalist (and 1948 fourth-place finisher) Huelet Benner of the United States and sixth-place finisher (and 1936 gold and 1948 bronze medalist) Torsten Ullman of Sweden. Benner and Ullman had finished first and second, respectively, at the 1954 world championships.

Australia, Canada, Colombia, Japan, Malaya, Pakistan, and South Korea each made their debut in the event. The United States made its eighth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the 1900 event.

Linnosvuo used a Hämmerli 100.

Competition format

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The competition had each shooter fire 60 shots, in 6 series of 10 shots each, at a distance of 50 metres. The target was round, 50 centimetres in diameter, with 10 scoring rings. Scoring for each shot was up to 10 points, in increments of 1 point. The maximum score possible was 600 points. Any pistol was permitted. Shoot-offs were held to break ties for top ranks.[3][4]

Records

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

World record  Anton Jasinsky (URS) 566 Bucharest, Romania 1955
Olympic record  Torsten Ullman (SWE) 559 Berlin, Germany 7 August 1936

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Friday, 30 November 1956 9:00 Final

Results

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Linnosvuo won the shoot-off for gold against Umarov, 26–24. The shoot-off for fourth place went to Hosaka over Yasynskiy, 24–20.

Rank Shooter Nation Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pentti Linnosvuo  Finland 556
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Makhmud Umarov  Soviet Union 556
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Offutt Pinion  United States 551
4 Choji Hosaka  Japan 550
5 Anton Yasynskiy  Soviet Union 550
6 Torsten Ullman  Sweden 549
7 Åke Lindblom  Sweden 542
8 Len Tolhurst  Australia 541
9 Claudio Fiorentini  Italy 540
10 Fred Cooper  Great Britain 539
11 Joe Benner  United States 537
12 František Maxa  Czechoslovakia 536
13 James Zavitz  Canada 536
14 Enrique Hanabergh  Colombia 534
15 Raúl Ibarra  Mexico 533
16 Kalle Sievänen  Finland 526
17 Yoshihide Ueda  Japan 526
18 Alberto Martijena  Argentina 526
19 Ignacio Cruzat  Chile 524
20 Charles des Jammonières  France 522
21 Rigoberto Fontt  Chile 521
22 Antonio Vita  Peru 519
23 Marcel Lafortune  Belgium 518
24 Hector de Lima Polanco  Venezuela 511
25 José Bernal  Venezuela 508
26 Rodolfo Flores  Mexico 507
27 Rodney Johnson  Australia 506
28 Henry Steele  Great Britain 503
29 Francisco Otayza  Peru 503
30 Kim Yun-gi  South Korea 463
31 Zafar Ahmed Muhammad  Pakistan 460
32 Ricardo Hizon  Philippines 456
33 Joseph Chong  Malaya 438

References

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  1. ^ "Shooting at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Free Pistol, 50 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  2. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Free Pistol, 50 Metres, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  4. ^ Official Report, p. 566.