2012 Summer Olympics / Shooting - Rapid Fire Pistol (Men)

sport	shoot
discipline	Rapid fire pistol
gender	Men
place	Royal Artillery Barracks
Attendees	18 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	2nd / 3rd August 2012

The competition Rapid Fire Pistol Men at the 2012 Olympics in London was in on 2 and 3 August 2012 Royal Artillery Barracks played. 39 riflemen took part.

The competition took place in two rounds, a qualifying round and a final round. In the qualifying round, each shooter fired 60 shots over 25 meters. The scoring of the hits ranged from 5 to 10 rings. Two half-programs were shot, each with two series in eight seconds, two series in six seconds and two series in four seconds. Each series consisted of five shots.

The six best shooters qualified for the final. The scoring started again at 0. Here 40 shots were fired in eight series of five shots. The shot had to have a rating of at least 9.7 to be considered a hit. There was four seconds for each series. From the fourth series onwards, the shooter with the lowest number of points was excluded until only two finalists remained to knock out the victory.

Title holder

Olympic champion	Oleksandr Petriv ( Ukraine )	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Alexei Klimov ( Russia )	Shooting World Cup 2010 in Munich

Existing records

World record qualification	Alexei Klimov ( Russia )	591	Granada , Spain	October 6, 2006
Olympic record qualification	Keith Sanderson ( United States )	583	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 16, 2008
World record final	Alexei Klimow ( Russia ) Christian Reitz ( Germany )	34	Milan , Italy	May 19, 2012
Olympic record final	The ISSF regulations have only been in effect since January 1, 2005

qualification

space	Sagittarius	nation	8th	6th	4th	Total points	annotation
01	Alexei Klimov	Russia	197	199	196	592	WR
02	Ding Feng	People's Republic of China	197	197	194	588
03	Leuris Pupo	Cuba	198	196	192	586
04th	Vijay Kumar	India	197	193	195	585
05	Zhang Jian	People's Republic of China	197	195	188	584
06th	Christian Reitz	Germany	196	195	192	583
07th	Martin Podhráský	Czech Republic	195	193	195	583
08th	Leonid Ekimov	Russia	195	195	192	582
09	Martin Strnad	Czech Republic	195	196	189	580
10	Kim Dae-yoong	South Korea	195	193	191	579
11	Jorge Llames	Spain	195	194	190	579
12	Roman Bondaruk	Ukraine	197	193	189	579
13	Emil Milev	United States	196	192	190	578
14th	Keith Sanderson	United States	197	193	188	578
15th	Jakkrit Panichpatikum	Thailand	196	196	186	578
16	Ralf Schumann	Germany	193	195	189	577
17th	Afanasijs Kuzmins	Latvia	194	190	185	569
18th	David Chapman	Australia	179	185	185	559

final

space	Sagittarius	1	2	3	4th	Int	5	Int	6th	Int	7th	Int	8th	Total points	annotation
1	Leuris Pupo	3	5	5	5	18th	4th	22nd	4th	26th	4th	30th	4th	34	OR
2	Vijay Kumar	5	4th	4th	3	16	4th	20th	4th	24	4th	28	2	30th
3	Ding Feng	4th	5	4th	3	16	4th	20th	4th	24	3	27
4th	Alexei Klimov	5	4th	3	2	14th	4th	18th	5	23
5	Zhang Jian	3	5	4th	2	14th	3	17th
6th	Christian Reitz	3	3	4th	3	13

Leuris Pupo achieved the first Cuban Olympic victory with the rapid fire pistol. It was also the first ever Olympic victory for a Cuban shooter.
Vijay Kumar won the first Indian medal in this discipline.

Web links

• Rapid fire pistol (men)
• ISSF rules German. (PDF) Page 434 8.11 Pistol competition table. In: Regulations. International Sport Shooting Federation, June 2016, accessed June 20, 2016 .