Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

The men's ISSF 50 meter pistol event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 5 August 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks. There were 38 competitors from 27 nations.[1] The event was won by Jin Jong-oh of South Korea, the second of his three consecutive victories in the free pistol. He was the first (and, since the event has been discontinued, the only) shooter to win two individual free pistol gold medals. It was his third medal in the event (including a silver in 2004), making him the fourth man to earn three free pistol medals. His countryman Choi Young-rae took silver, the first time since 1976 that a nation had finished 1–2 in the event. Chinese shooter Wang Zhiwei received bronze.

Men's 50 metre pistol
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Jin Jong-oh
VenueRoyal Artillery Barracks
Date5 August 2012
Competitors38 from 27 nations
Winning score662.0
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jin Jong-oh
 South Korea
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Choi Young-rae
 South Korea
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Wang Zhiwei
 China
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Background

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This was the 23rd 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.[2] 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.[3][1]

Five of the eight finalists from the 2008 Games returned: gold medalist (and 2004 silver medalist) Jin Jong-oh of South Korea, bronze medalist Vladimir Isakov of Russia, fourth-place finisher Oleg Omelchuk of Ukraine, fifth-place finisher Pavol Kopp of Slovakia, and seventh-place finisher Damir Mikec of Serbia. The 2010 world championship podium was Tomoyuki Matsuda of Japan, Lee Dae-myung of South Korea, and Vyacheslav Podlesnyy of Kazakhstan; Matsuda and Podlesnyy competed in London but the South Korean pair was Jin and Choi Young-rae. Mikec was the No. 1 seed.[1]

Iceland made its debut in the event. The United States made its 21st appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the 1900 event and the boycotted 1980 Games.

Jin used a Morini CM84E.

Qualification

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Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to two shooters if the NOC earned enough quota sports or had enough crossover-qualified shooters. To compete, a shooter needed a quota spot and to achieve a Minimum Qualification Score (MQS). Once a shooter was using a quota spot in any shooting event, they could enter any other shooting event for which they had achieved the MQS as well (a crossover qualification). There were 18 quota spots available for the free pistol: 4 at the 2010 World Championship, 8 at the 2011 World Cup events (2 spots at each of 4 events), 5 for continental champions (2 each for Europe and Americas, 1 for Asia), and a Tripartite Commission invitation. There were also 2 re-allocated places and 18 double starters (primarily from the 10 metre air pistol event).

Competition format

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The competition featured two rounds, qualifying and final. The qualifying round was the same as the previous competitions: 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. The top 8 shooters advanced to a final; ties necessary for qualifying were broken by an additional series. They shot an additional series of 10 shots, with the score added to their qualifying round score to give a 70-shot total. The 1996 competition had added decimal scoring to the final; shots could score up to 10.9 for the final. The total maximum was therefore 709.0. Any pistol was permitted.[1]

Records

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

Qualifying (60 shots)
World record   Jin Jong-oh (KOR) 583 Granada, Spain 9 September 2014
Olympic record   Aleksandr Melentiev (URS) 581 Moscow, Soviet Union 20 July 1980
Final (70 shots)
World record   William Demarest (USA) 676.2 (577+99.2) Milan, Italy 4 June 2000
Olympic record   Boris Kokorev (RUS) 666.4 (570+96.4) Atlanta, United States 23 July 1996

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

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Sunday, 5 August 2012 9:00
12:30
Qualifying
Final

Results

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Qualifying

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Rank Shooter Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Notes
1 Choi Young-rae   South Korea 98 94 93 92 95 97 569 Q
2 Wang Zhiwei   China 95 95 95 98 93 90 566 Q
3 Andrija Zlatić   Serbia 92 97 95 91 96 93 564 Q
4 Hoàng Xuân Vinh   Vietnam 94 95 96 92 92 94 563 Q
5 Jin Jong-oh   South Korea 97 95 94 91 92 93 562 Q
6 Christian Reitz   Germany 94 94 94 95 92 91 560 Q
7 Leonid Yekimov   Russia 94 93 94 95 95 89 560 Q
8 Giuseppe Giordano   Italy 93 96 93 92 93 92 559 Q
Shoot-off: 49.6
9 João Costa   Portugal 93 95 97 92 91 91 559 Shoot-off: 49.5
10 Vladimir Isakov   Russia 92 98 95 91 92 91 559 Shoot-off: 49.0
11 Tomoyuki Matsuda   Japan 94 90 96 92 93 94 559 Shoot-off: 49.0
12 İsmail Keleş   Turkey 94 92 94 94 94 91 559 Shoot-off: 46.5
13 Yusuf Dikeç   Turkey 95 94 94 92 92 92 559 Shoot-off: 46.5
14 Jakkrit Panichpatikum   Thailand 96 90 90 93 96 94 558
15 Nickolaus Mowrer   United States 93 93 90 93 94 95 558
16 Damir Mikec   Serbia 92 90 94 95 94 93 558
17 Florian Schmidt   Germany 95 94 91 94 95 88 557
18 Norayr Bakhtamyan   Armenia 95 96 87 91 94 94 557
19 Daniel Repacholi   Australia 94 95 90 93 90 95 557
20 Pavol Kopp   Slovakia 92 92 96 92 90 94 556
21 Walter Lapeyre   France 91 93 90 93 92 95 554
22 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
25 Zhang Tian   China 92 87 93 92 95 94 553
26 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 Oleh Omelchuk   Ukraine 92 89 91 91 94 91 548
30 Kanstantsin Lukashyk   Belarus 94 93 90 91 92 87 547
31 Andrei Kazak   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 Podlesnyy   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 Kucana   Albania 89 84 89 89 90 83 524
38 Nikola Šaranović   Montenegro 83 84 90 88 91 88 524

Final

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Choi had a 7-point lead over Jin (5th place in qualifying) and a 3-point lead over Wang going into the finals; Jin never hit lower than 9.5 in first 9 finals shots to close the gap while Wang fell to nearly 3 points out of second. Choi still held a 1.6-point lead over Jin going into the last shot, but scored only 8.1 while Jin put his final shot in the 10-ring to pass him and repeat as gold medalist.[1]

Rank Shooter Nation Qualifying Final Total
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
  Jin Jong-oh   South Korea 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
  Choi Young-Rae   South Korea 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
  Wang Zhiwei   China 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
4 Hoàng Xuân Vinh   Vietnam 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   Italy 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
6 Andrija Zlatić   Serbia 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
7 Christian Reitz   Germany 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
8 Leonid Yekimov   Russia 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

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Free Pistol, 50 Metres, Men's". Olympedia. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Olympedia – Shooting".
  3. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2020.