Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place at a shooting range complex in Mollet del Vallès outside Barcelona, Catalonia. Competitions were held in a total of thirteen events — six men's events, four women's events, and three events open to both genders. It was the first time a woman (Zhan Shan in Skeet) took a gold medal in such an open event, and also the last time they were held. From 1996 and on, all shooting events have been either men's or women's.

It was also the first games for 10 m Running Target, which replaced 50 m Running Target on the Olympic program, as well as the first games with the new targets in all rifle and pistol events except 50 m Pistol, leading to a large number of automatic Olympic records.

[edit] Medal count

Pos	Country				Total
1	Unified Team¹	5	2	1	8
2	China	2	2	0	4
3	Germany	2	0	1	3
4	South Korea	2	0	0	2
5	United States	1	1	0	2
6	Czechoslovakia	1	0	1	2
7	Bulgaria	0	2	1	3
8	Independent Olympic Participants²	0	1	2	3
9	Japan	0	1	1	2
10	France	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
	Peru	0	1	0	1
14	Italy	0	0	2	2
15	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1

¹ Including all former members of the Soviet Union except Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
² The designation of individual competitors from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

[edit] Men's shooting events

[edit] Men's 50 m Rifle, Three positions

1	Gracha Petikian, Unified Team	1169	98.4	1267.4
2	Robert Foth, United States	1169	97.6	1266.6
3	Ryohei Koba, Japan	1171	94.9	1265.9

[edit] Men's 50 m Rifle, Prone position

1	Lee Eun Chul, South Korea	597	105.5	702.5
2	Harald Stenvaag, Norway	597	104.4	701.4
3	Stevan Pletikosić, Independent Olympic Participant	597	104.1	701.1

[edit] Men's 10 m Air Rifle

1	Juri Fedkin, Unified Team	593	102.3	695.3
2	Franck Badiou, France	591	100.9	691.9
3	Johann Riederer, Germany	590	101.7	691.7

[edit] Men's 50 m Pistol

1	Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Unified Team	567	91	658
2	Wang Yifu, China	565	92	657
3	Ragnar Skanåker, Sweden	566	91	657

Lukashyk, a 16-year-old Belarusian, shocked the entire world by having the pre-final lead in this event. The final became severely interrupted by a pistol malfunction for Tanyu Kiryakov (Bulgaria) who was second but had to leave the competition short of finishing his ten shots. Lukashyk needed a nine for his last shot, and it broke only seconds before the 75-second deadline, but was a nine indeed, and so the sensation was a fact. The event is also often noted for the 42-year age difference between the gold and bronze medalists.

[edit] Men's 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol

1	Ralf Schumann, Germany	594	195	96	885
2	Afanasijs Kuzmins, Latvia	590	195	97	882
3	Vladimir Vokhmianin, Unified Team	590	196	96	882

The Rapid Fire Pistol event was shot with a 20-shot semifinal and a 10-shot final, both as four-second series. Schumann, who had finished second to Kuzmins in Seoul, turned the tables and won this first-ever Olympic RFP competition on the circular target.

[edit] Men's 10 m Air Pistol

1	Wang Yifu, China	585	99.8	684.8
2	Sergei Pyzhianov, Unified Team	584	100.1	684.1
3	Sorin Babii, Romania	586	98.1	684.1

[edit] Women's shooting events

[edit] Women's 50 m Rifle, Three positions

1	Launi Meili, United States	587	97.3	684.3
2	Nonka Matova, Bulgaria	584	98.7	682.7
3	Malgorzata Ksiazkiewicz, Poland	585	96.5	681.5

[edit] Women's 10 m Air Rifle

1	Yeo Kab Soon, South Korea	396	102.2	498.2
2	Vesela Letcheva, Bulgaria	396	99.3	495.3
3	Aranka Binder, Independent Olympic Participant	393	102.1	495.1

[edit] Women's 25 m Pistol

1	Marina Logvinenko, Unified Team	587	97	684
2	Li Duihong, China	586	94	680
3	Dorzhsuren Munkhbayar, Mongolia	584	95	679

[edit] Women's 10 m Air Pistol

1	Marina Logvinenko, Unified Team	387	99.4	486.4
2	Jasna Šekarić, Independent Olympic Participant	389	97.4	486.4
3	Maria Grozdeva, Bulgaria	383	98.6	481.6

Until 1992, ties after finals were resolved by best final score. Sekarić was devastated to find that she had lost precisely the 2.0 points she had to spare, thus losing the gold on exactly the same score as Logvinenko, who could return with two gold medals from the games. (The rules were later changed to resolving all ties by shoot-offs.)

[edit] Open shooting events

[edit] Trap

1	Petr Hrdlicka, Czechoslovakia	195	24	219
2	Kazumi Watanabe, Japan	195	24	219
3	Marco Venturini, Italy	195	23	218

[edit] Skeet

1	Zhan Shan, China	200	23	223
2	Juan Giha, Peru	198	24	222
3	Bruno Rossetti, Italy	198	24	222

[edit] 10 m Running Target

1	Michael Jakosits, Germany	580	93	673
2	Anatoli Asrabaev, Unified Team	579	93	672
3	Lubos Racansky, Czechoslovakia	576	94	670

[edit] External links

All Olympic shooting medalists

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