Shooting at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Shooting at the
1936 Summer Olympics
25 m rapid fire pistol men
50 metre pistol men
50 m rifle, prone men

The men's 50 metre pistol was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme. It was the sixth appearance of the event. The competition was held on August 6, 1936 and August 7, 1936 at the shooting ranges at Wannsee. 43 shooters from 19 nations competed.

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Medallists

Gold Silver Bronze
 Torsten Ullman
Sweden (SWE)		  Erich Krempel
Germany (GER)		  Charles des Jammonières
France (FRA)

Records

These are the standing world and Olympic records prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics.

World Record 547 Torsten Ullman  ? 1935
Olympic Record 503 Karl Röderer Paris (FRA) August 1, 1900

Results

Starting order: On August 6, the shooters from Argentina, Chile, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, USA, and Germany started. On the following day the shooters of all other countries competed. The competition started on both days at 8 a.m.

Weather: On the first day it was dry with fairly overcast sky. The wind influenced the competition at times during the morning. On the second day it was sunny in the morning and fairly overcast in the afternoon. In general the weather was warmer and there was no wind.

On the first day Erich Krempel set a new Olympic record. But on the second day Torsten Ullman set a new world record. 33 shooters finished with a better score than the standing Olympic record prior the Games.

Place Shooter Total Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6
1  Torsten Ullman (SWE) 559 95 92 94 91 92 95
2  Erich Krempel (GER) 544 87 88 91 92 95 91
3  Charles des Jammonières (FRA) 540 91 92 86 91 90 90
4  Marcel Bonin (FRA) 538 92 90 91 86 89 90
5  Tapio Vartiovaara (FIN) 537 95 86 86 88 93 89
6  Elliott Jones (USA) 536 92 90 83 92 90 89
7  Georgios Stathis (GRE) 532 90 89 92 89 87 85
8  Aatto Nuora (FIN) 532 86 89 90 86 92 89
9  Sándor Tölgyesi (HUN) 528 87 88 88 90 90 85
10  Bertalan Zsótér (HUN) 525 87 85 88 84 92 89
11  Mauritz Amundsen (NOR) 525 89 87 92 86 84 87
12  Paul Wehner (GER) 525 90 84 88 87 88 88
13  Jean Lafortune (BEL) 524 83 87 89 85 85 95
14  Roberto Müller (CHI) 521 88 89 83 85 83 93
15  Jaakko Rintanen (FIN) 520 89 85 83 88 89 86
16  Carlos Lalanne (CHI) 520 86 87 89 86 87 85
17  William Riedell (USA) 519 82 87 85 89 84 92
18  Juan Rostagno (ARG) 519 90 85 88 80 89 87
19  Emil Martin (GER) 519 84 86 91 81 88 89
20  René Koch (FRA) 519 82 89 88 90 80 90
21  Stefano Margotti (ITA) 518 84 84 82 93 88 87
22  Julius Lehrmann (DEN) 518 81 86 91 88 84 88
23  Václav Krecl (TCH) 518 91 82 89 82 82 92
24  Helge Meuller (SWE) 517 85 85 82 88 87 90
25  Harvey Dias Villela (BRA) 515 82 84 87 87 85 90
26  Gustaf Bergström (SWE) 514 85 88 77 88 88 88
27  Miguel Lonegro (ARG) 513 87 79 87 85 90 85
28  Christen Møller (DEN) 513 84 90 82 85 87 85
29  Enrique Ojeda (CHI) 512 86 88 80 89 85 84
30  Martin Gison (PHI) 511 80 82 86 92 82 89
31  Paul Van Asbroeck (BEL) 510 90 86 87 71 89 87
32  Giancarlo Boriani (ITA) 506 80 85 86 90 79 86
33  Ralph Marshall (USA) 505 91 87 84 82 83 78
34  Jan Koller (TCH) 503 84 82 87 81 86 83
35  Georgios Kontogiannis (GRE) 502 81 85 85 86 83 82
36  Ugo Pistolesi (ITA) 502 86 80 88 80 87 81
37  Otoniel Gonzaga (PHI) 501 84 79 84 84 83 87
38  Herman Schultz (MON) 496 82 79 85 82 87 81
39  François Lafortune (BEL) 495 75 78 90 89 84 79
40  Moysés Cardoso (POR) 490 79 80 84 82 86 79
41  Louis Briano (MON) 467 73 72 79 87 80 76
42  Vasile Crişan (ROU) 446 73 65 72 71 80 85
43  Victor Bonafède (MON) 433 61 79 74 79 68 72

If the scores were level, the place was established according to position of hits on target.

References

1896: Sumner Paine • 1900: Karl Röderer • 1908: Paul Van Asbroeck • 1912: Alfred Lane • 1920: Karl Frederick • 1936: Torsten Ullman • 1948: Edwin Vásquez • 1952: Huelet Benner • 1956: Pentti Linnosvuo • 1960: Aleksey Gushchin • 1964: Väinö Markkanen • 1968: Grigory Kosykh • 1972: Ragnar Skanåker • 1976: Uwe Potteck • 1980: Aleksandr Melentyev • 1984: Xu Haifeng • 1988: Sorin Babii • 1992: Kanstantsin Lukashyk • 1996: Boris Kokorev • 2000: Tanyu Kiryakov • 2004: Mikhail Nestruyev • 2008: Jin Jong-oh