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Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

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Men's 50 metre free pistol
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Shooting pictogram
VenuePrado Regional Park
DateJuly 29
Competitors56 from 38 nations
Winning score566
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Xu Haifeng
 China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ragnar Skanåker
 Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Wang Yifu
 China
← 1980
(mixed)
1988 →

The men's ISSF 50 meter pistol was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on July 29, 1984, at the shooting ranges in Los Angeles. 56 shooters from 38 nations competed.[1] Nations had been limited to two shooters each since the 1952 Games. The event was won by Xu Haifeng of China, with his countryman Wang Yifu taking bronze. As the free pistol was the first medal event in 1984 and the People's Republic of China fully competed for the first time in 1984, these were the first Olympic medals won by competitors from that nation.[2] Ragnar Skanåker of Sweden took silver, 12 years after winning his first medal (gold in 1972); he was the seventh man to win multiple medals in the event and third to win medals 12 years apart (Torsten Ullman had medaled in 1936 and 1948, Harald Vollmar in 1968, 1976, and 1980).

Background

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This was the 16th 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. A separate women's event would be introduced in 1984.[3] 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.[4][2]

Three of the top 10 shooters from the 1980 Games returned: seventh-place finisher (and 1972 gold medalist and 1976 fifth-place finisher) Ragnar Skanåker of Sweden, eighth-place finisher Paavo Palokangas of Finland, and ninth-place finisher Sylvio Carvalho of Brazil. Skanåker was also the reigning (1982) world champion. Many of the rest of the 1980 Olympians were from Eastern Bloc nations, including the reigning gold medalist and 1982 world championship runner-up Aleksandr Melentyev of the Soviet Union.

The People's Republic of China, Chinese Taipei, Ecuador, India, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Senegal each made their debut in the event. Sweden and the United States each made their 14th appearance, tied for most of any nation.

Xu used a Hämmerli 150.

Competition format

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Each shooter fired 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.[2][5]

Records

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

World record  Aleksandr Melentyev (URS) 581 Moscow, Soviet Union 20 July 1980
Olympic record  Aleksandr Melentyev (URS) 581 Moscow, Soviet Union 20 July 1980

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

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Sunday, 29 July 1984 9:00 Final

Results

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Rank Shooter Nation Score
1st place, gold medalist(s) Xu Haifeng  China 566
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ragnar Skanåker  Sweden 565
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Wang Yifu  China 564
4 Jürgen Hartmann  West Germany 560
5 Vincenzo Tondo  Italy 560
6 Philippe Cola  France 559
7 Hector de Lima Carrilla  Venezuela 558
8 Paavo Palokangas  Finland 558
9 Erich Buljung  United States 558
10 Tu Tsai-hsing  Chinese Taipei 558
11 Sorin Babii  Romania 555
Carlos Hora  Peru 555
Vinzenz Schweighofer  Austria 555
14 Rolf Beutler  Switzerland 554
Don Nygord  United States 554
16 Seo In-taek  South Korea 553
17 Bernardo Tovar  Colombia 552
18 Tom Guinn  Canada 551
Chikafumi Hirai  Japan 551
20 Phil Adams  Australia 550
Ernesto Alais  Argentina 550
Walter Bauza  Argentina 550
23 Gerhard Beyer  West Germany 548
Galo Miño  Ecuador 548
25 Sylvio Carvalho  Brazil 546
Mariano Lara  Costa Rica 546
27 Ángel Corsino Fernández  Spain 543
Arthur Spencer  Great Britain 543
29 Ove Gunnarsson  Sweden 540
Shigetoshi Tashiro  Japan 540
31 Shuaib Adam  Kenya 539
Baljit Singh Kharab  India 539
Park Seung-rin  South Korea 539
Somchai Thingpakdee  Thailand 539
35 Sabiahmad Abdullah Ahad  Malaysia 537
36 Gary Aramist  Israel 536
Gilbert U  Hong Kong 536
38 Luis Ortiz  Colombia 535
39 José Jacques Pena  Portugal 533
40 Herbert Binder  Switzerland 532
Edgar Espinoza  Venezuela 532
Pedro García Jr.  Peru 532
43 Paúl Margraff  Ecuador 531
44 William Henderson  Virgin Islands 528
45 Rolf Lofstad  Norway 523
46 Geoffrey Robinson  Great Britain 521
47 Juma Al-Rahbi  Oman 520
48 Manhi Al-Mutairy  Saudi Arabia 513
Jean-Pierre Gasparotti  Monaco 513
50 Joël Nigiono  Monaco 505
51 Germano Bollini  San Marino 500
Gianfranco Giardi  San Marino 500
53 Amadou Ciré Baal  Senegal 499
54 Nirundon Lepananon  Thailand 494
55 Roland Scott  Virgin Islands 459
56 Ali Al-Ghafiri  Oman 445

References

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  1. ^ "Shooting at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Free Pistol, 50 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Free Pistol, 50 Metres, Men's". Olympedia. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  3. ^ "Shooting". Olympedia. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  4. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  5. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 535.