2012 Summer Olympics / Shooting - Free Pistol 50 meters (Men)

sport	shoot
discipline	Free pistol 50 meters
gender	Men
place	Royal Artillery Barracks
Attendees	38 athletes from 27 countries
Competition phase	5th August 2012

The competition free pistol 50 meters of the men at the 2012 Olympics in London was in the August 5, 2012 Royal Artillery Barracks played. 38 riflemen took part.

The competition took place in two rounds, a qualifying round and a final round. In the qualifying round each shooter had to fire 60 shots. For each shot there was one to 10 points. The best eight shooters qualified for the final. Here the shooters fired 10 shots each, with the scoring being divided into steps of 0.1 points. The highest possible rating per shot was 10.9. The winner was determined by adding up the scores from qualification and final.

The shooters qualified for the final are highlighted in light green.

Title holder

Olympic champion	Jin Jong-oh ( South Korea )	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Tomoyuki Matsuda ( Japan )	Shooting World Cup 2010 in Munich

Existing records

World record qualification	Alexander Melentjew ( Soviet Union )	581	Moscow , Soviet Union	July 20, 1980
Olympic record qualification	Alexander Melentjew ( Soviet Union )	581	Moscow , Soviet Union	July 20, 1980
World record final	William Demarest ( United States )	676.2 (577 + 99.2)	Milan , Italy	June 4, 2000
Olympic record final	Boris Kokorew ( Russia )	666.4 (570 + 96.4)	Atlanta , USA	July 23, 1996

Note: In Melentiev's records at the 1980 Olympic Games , women and men started together.

qualification

space	Sagittarius	nation	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	total
01	Choi Young-rae	South Korea	98	94	93	92	95	97	569
02	Wang Zhiwei	People's Republic of China	95	95	95	98	93	90	566
03	Andrija Zlatić	Serbia	92	97	95	91	96	93	564
04th	Hoàng Xuân Vinh	Vietnam	94	95	96	92	92	94	563
05	Jin Jong-oh	South Korea	97	95	94	91	92	93	562
06th	Christian Reitz	Germany	94	94	94	95	92	91	560
07th	Leonid Ekimov	Russia	94	93	94	95	95	89	560
08th	Giuseppe Giordano	Italy	93	96	93	92	93	92	559
	João Costa	Portugal	93	95	97	92	91	91	559
	Vladimir Issakov	Russia	92	98	95	91	92	91	559
	Tomoyuki Matsuda	Japan	94	90	96	92	93	94	559
	İsmail Keleş	Turkey	94	92	94	94	94	91	559
	Yusuf Dikeç	Turkey	95	94	94	92	92	92	559
14th	Jakkrit Panichpatikum	Thailand	96	90	90	93	96	94	558
15th	Nickolaus Mowrer	United States	93	93	90	93	94	95	558
16	Damir Mikec	Serbia	92	90	94	95	94	93	558
17th	Florian Schmidt	Germany	95	94	91	94	95	88	557
18th	Norayr Bakhtamjan	Armenia	95	96	87	91	94	94	557
19th	Daniel Repacholi	Australia	94	95	90	93	90	95	557
20th	Pavol Kopp	Slovakia	92	92	96	92	90	94	556
21st	Walter Lapeyre	France	91	93	90	93	92	95	554
22nd	Pablo Carrera	Spain	91	94	92	91	94	92	554
23	Juraj Tužinský	Slovakia	91	97	90	90	96	90	554
24	Francesco Bruno	Italy	90	92	93	92	96	90	553
25th	Zhang Tian	People's Republic of China	92	87	93	92	95	94	553
26th	Kai Jahnsson	Finland	91	91	93	90	92	95	552
27	Ebrahim Barkhordari	Iran	95	89	91	94	91	92	552
28	Daryl Szarenski	United States	92	95	91	89	88	95	550
29	Oleg Omelchuk	Ukraine	92	89	91	91	94	91	548
30th	Kanstanzin Lukaschyk	Belarus	94	93	90	91	92	87	547
31	Andrei Kasak	Belarus	93	88	93	91	92	90	547
32	Ásgeir Sigurgeirsson	Iceland	89	92	92	92	93	86	544
33	Franck Dumoulin	France	89	88	92	89	92	91	541
34	Vyacheslav Podlesnji	Kazakhstan	89	91	88	89	89	94	540
35	Roger Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	89	93	91	90	87	89	539
36	Sergio Sánchez	Guatemala	91	90	88	89	89	86	533
37	Arben Kuçana	Albania	89	84	89	89	90	83	524
38	Nikola Šaranović	Montenegro	83	84	90	88	91	88	524

Sting

A jump-off had to be shot to determine the last place in the final. Six athletes had the same number of points, only one could take part in the final. Five shots were fired and the score was divided into 0.1 point increments.

space	Sagittarius	nation	Points
08th	Giuseppe Giordano	Italy	49.6
09	João Costa	Portugal	49.5
10	Vladimir Issakov	Russia	49.0
	Tomoyuki Matsuda	Japan	49.0
12	İsmail Keleş	Turkey	46.5
	Yusuf Dikeç	Turkey	46.5

final

space	Sagittarius	qualification	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	Final points	Total points
1	Jin Jong-oh	562	10.2	9.5	9.8	9.8	10.6	10.6	9.5	10.3	9.5	10.2	100.0	662.0
2	Choi Young-rae	569	8.8	9.8	10.5	9.8	7.4	10.5	9.2	9.0	9.4	8.1	92.5	661.5
3	Wang Zhiwei	566	10.3	9.0	8.7	7.2	9.7	8.4	10.1	8.9	9.7	10.6	92.6	658.6
4th	Hoàng Xuân Vinh	563	9.6	8.3	10.1	9.3	9.7	10.0	10.4	10.6	7.3	10.2	95.5	658.5
5	Giuseppe Giordano	559	9.5	10.2	10.5	9.6	8.6	9.1	10.6	10.3	9.2	9.4	97.0	656.0
6th	Andrija Zlatić	564	8.1	10.2	8.9	9.3	7.7	9.3	10.3	10.4	10.1	7.6	91.9	655.9
7th	Christian Reitz	560	10.1	7.3	8.1	8.9	10.7	10.3	10.8	9.0	10.2	8.9	94.3	654.3
8th	Leonid Ekimov	560	9.0	9.1	10.3	9.7	9.9	9.6	8.6	8.8	10.4	6.6	92.0	652.0

Jin Jong-oh managed to defend his title for the first time in this discipline. After silver in 2004 it was his third medal in a row with the free pistol over 50 meters. Jin is also only the second shooter since 1924 to celebrate two Olympic victories at the same games. On July 28th, Jin won the gold medal with the 10 meter air pistol .

Web links

• Free pistol 50 meters (men)