Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Men's 50 metre pistol
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue Mollet del Vallès
Competitors 44 from 29 nations
Winning score 658
Medalists
  Kanstantsin Lukashyk   Unified Team
  Wang Yifu   China
  Ragnar Skanåker   Sweden
«1988 1996»
Shooting at the
1992 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions men women
50 m rifle prone men
10 m air rifle   men   women
Pistol
50 m pistol men
25 m pistol women
25 m rapid fire pistol men
10 m air pistol men women
Shotgun
Trap open
Skeet open
Running target
10 m running target men

Men's 50 metre pistol (then known as free pistol) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Kanstantsin Lukashyk, a 16-year-old Belarusian, unexpectedly had the pre-final lead. The final became severely interrupted by a pistol malfunction, originally assumed to be a technical fault in the electronic target system, for Tanyu Kiryakov 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. Wang Yifu won the silver medal and Ragnar Skanåker, 42 years older than the gold medalist, came third, winning his fourth Olympic medal in this event.

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country Score Notes
1 Kanstantsin Lukashyk Unified Team 567 Q
2 Tanyu Kiryakov Bulgaria 567 Q
3 Darius Young United States 566 Q
4 Ragnar Skanåker Sweden 566 Q
5 Wang Yifu China 565 Q
6 Xu Haifeng China 565 Q
7 Istvan Agh Hungary 561 Q
8 Sorin Babii Romania 561 Q
9 Jerzy Pietrzak Poland 560
10 Stein-Olav Fiskebeck Norway 559
11 Kim Seon-il South Korea 558
11 Spas Koprinkov Bulgaria 558
11 Sakari Paasonen Finland 558
11 Tu Tai-hsing Chinese Taipei 558
15 Benny Östlund Sweden 557
16 Sergei Pyzhianov Unified Team 556
16 Tarek Zaki Riad Egypt 556
16 So Gil-san North Korea 556
19 Ben Amonette United States 555
20 Gernot Eder Germany 554
20 Fumihisa Semizuki Japan 554
22 Roberto Di Donna Italy 553
22 Stanislav Jirkal Czechoslovakia 553
22 Bernardo Tobar Ante Colombia 553
25 Philippe Cola France 552
26 Alberto Areces Fernandez Spain 551
26 Bengt Sandstrom Australia 551
28 Hassan Hassan Iraq 550
28 Ryu Myong-hyon North Korea 550
30 Phillip Adams Australia 549
31 Timo Naveri Finland 548
31 Zoltán Papanitz Hungary 548
33 Hans-Jürgen Bauer-Neumaier Germany 547
33 Park Jong-shin South Korea 547
35 Wilson Scheidemantel Brazil 545
36 Franck Dumoulin France 544
37 Dimitrios Baltas Greece 543
37 Rodney Michael Colwell Canada 543
37 Mamoru Inagaki Japan 543
37 Francisco Sanz Cancio Spain 543
37 Greg Yelavich New Zealand 543
42 Dario Palazzani Italy 538
43 Gilbert King-hong U Hong Kong 532
44 Shuaib Adam Kenya 484

Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Notes
 Kanstantsin Lukashyk (EUN) 567 91 658
 Wang Yifu (CHN) 565 92 657
 Ragnar Skanåker (SWE) 566 91 657
4  Darius Young (USA) 566 89 655
5  Sorin Babii (ROU) 561 92 653
6  Istvan Agh (HUN) 561 91 652
7  Xu Haifeng (CHN) 565 87 652
8  Tanyu Kiryakov (BUL) 567 51 618 DNF

DNF Did not finish

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