Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Men's 50 metre pistol
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Aerial view of the National Shooting Center in Deodoro, where the men's 50 metre pistol took place.
VenueNational Shooting Center
Date10 August 2016
Competitors41 from 29 nations
Winning score193.7 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jin Jong-oh  South Korea
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hoàng Xuân Vinh  Vietnam
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kim Song-guk  North Korea
← 2012

The men's ISSF 50 meter pistol event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 10 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center. There were 41 competitors from 29 nations.[1] The event was won by Jin Jong-oh of South Korea, his third consecutive victory in the free pistol. He was the only man to win two gold medals in the event, much less three. Jin was also the second man to win four medals of any color in the event, after Ragnar Skanåker of Sweden from 1972 to 1992. Hoàng Xuân Vinh took silver, the first medal for Vietnam in the event. Kim Song-guk's bronze was North Korea's first medal in the free pistol since 2004 (the nation had a silver medal stripped in 2008 due to doping).

Background

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This was the 24th—and final—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 open to women from 1968 to 1980. 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.[2][1] The event, which had no women's equivalent, was dropped after 2016 to make room for a mixed team air pistol event as the sport moved toward gender equality.

Four of the eight finalists from the 2012 Games returned: two-time gold medalist (and 2004 silver medalist) Jin Jong-oh of South Korea, bronze medalist Wang Zhiwei of China, fourth-place finisher Hoàng Xuân Vinh of Vietnam, and fifth-place finisher Giuseppe Giordano of Italy. The 2014 world championship podium had been Jin Jong-oh, Jitu Rai of India, and Pang Wei of Wei; all three competed in Rio de Janeiro.

Georgia, Myanmar, and Panama each made their debut in the event. The United States made its 22nd 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 22 quota spots available for the free pistol: 4 at the 2014 World Championship, 8 at the 2015 World Cup events (2 spots at each of 4 events), 9 for continental events (3 for Europe, 2 each for Asia and Americas, and 1 each for Africa and Oceania), and a Tripartite Commission invitation. One place was added through the exchange system. There were 19 double-starters from other events, primarily the 10 metre air pistol event.

Competition format

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The competition featured two rounds, qualifying and final. The 2016 competition introduced fundamental changes to the final format.

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.

In prior Games, the final had been an additional series of 10 shots, with the score added to their qualifying round score to give a 70-shot total. For 2016, the final instead wiped the qualifying scores and started anew. The shooters would each fire up to 20 shots in the final. However, beginning after the 8th shot and continuing every 2 shots thereafter, the shooter with the lowest total in the final was eliminated. Thus, all 8 shooters fired 8 shots, 7 shooters fired 10 shots, 6 shooters fired 8 shots, and so on until only 2 shooters fired the 19th and 20th shots. Decimal scoring applied in the final; shots could score up to 10.9. The total maximum was therefore 818.0. 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  Alexsander Melentiev (URS) 581 Moscow, Soviet Union 20 July 1980
Final (80 shots)
World record  Jin Jong-oh (KOR) 200.7 Granada, Spain 7 July 2013
Olympic record New format
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Jin Jong-oh set the new format's initial Olympic record at 193.7; with the event discontinued, that record will never be beaten.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Wednesday, 10 August 2016 9:00
12:00
Qualifying
Final

Results

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Qualifying

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Rank Shooter Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Inner 10s Notes
1 Jin Jong-oh  South Korea 95 95 91 95 94 97 567 12 Q
2 Pang Wei  China 97 91 95 94 95 93 565 11 Q
3 Han Seung-woo  South Korea 93 95 97 95 90 92 562 8 Q
4 Vladimir Gontcharov  Russia 86 92 96 96 96 91 557 13 Q
5 Kim Song-guk  North Korea 91 92 94 92 94 94 557 8 Q
6 Hoàng Xuân Vinh  Vietnam 90 93 91 92 96 94 556 11 Q
7 Pavol Kopp  Slovakia 92 93 94 91 93 93 556 8 Q
8 Wang Zhiwei  China 94 95 91 95 88 93 556 5 Q
9 Pablo Carrera  Spain 88 96 90 93 92 96 555 12
10 Will Brown  United States 92 89 94 91 94 95 555 6
11 João Costa  Portugal 93 91 94 91 96 89 554 11
12 Jitu Rai  India 92 95 90 94 95 88 554 9
13 Rashid Yunusmetov  Kazakhstan 92 94 91 93 91 92 553 8
14 Jay Shi  United States 92 91 89 95 94 92 553 7
15 Tsotne Machavariani  Georgia 92 91 95 91 93 90 552 11
16 Dimitrije Grgić  Serbia 91 94 93 90 93 91 552 8
17 Ye Tun Naung  Myanmar 90 94 90 91 94 93 552 4
18 Damir Mikec  Serbia 89 90 93 91 94 94 551 7
19 Tomoyuki Matsuda  Japan 93 91 92 89 94 91 550 12
20 Atallah Al-Anazi  Saudi Arabia 92 86 92 92 96 91 550 11
21 Oleh Omelchuk  Ukraine 92 93 88 95 90 92 550 10
22 Yusuf Dikeç  Turkey 90 92 94 91 94 89 550 10
23 Denis Koulakov  Russia 92 92 90 93 87 94 548 9
24 Kim Jong-su  North Korea 89 89 91 94 93 92 548 8
25 Prakash Nanjappa  India 85 90 91 93 95 93 547 10
26 Giuseppe Giordano  Italy 93 89 91 91 90 93 547 4
27 Jorge Grau  Cuba 89 90 92 95 89 91 546 6
28 Daniel Repacholi  Australia 90 91 92 94 89 89 545 10
29 İsmail Keleş  Turkey 89 90 90 93 90 92 544 5
30 Júlio Almeida  Brazil 88 90 91 90 90 93 542 7
31 Trần Quốc Cường  Vietnam 92 86 92 86 94 92 542 6
32 Samuil Donkov  Bulgaria 91 89 91 86 88 96 541 6
33 Juraj Tužinský  Slovakia 87 86 95 93 91 89 541 5
34 Miklós Tátrai  Hungary 89 92 92 91 90 85 539 4
35 Marko Carrillo  Peru 91 94 93 79 90 89 536 6
36 Vladimir Issachenko  Kazakhstan 88 87 92 88 93 88 536 4
37 Johnathan Wong  Malaysia 90 89 91 86 87 92 535 4
38 Samy Abdel Razek  Egypt 82 94 90 87 90 91 534 6
39 Felipe Almeida Wu  Brazil 92 88 87 88 89 89 533 3
40 David Muñoz  Panama 86 91 86 91 88 86 528 9
41 Rudolf Knijnenburg  Bolivia 89 89 85 84 87 88 522 4

Final

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After the first 8 shots, Kim led a fairly narrowly-grouped top seven, with Pang well behind resulting in his elimination. The ninth shot was disastrous for two-time defending champion Jin, as the 6.6 dropped him to last place. He was able to recover in shot 10, however, and Kopp's 7.1 was enough to eliminate the Slovakian while Jin narrowly survived by 0.7 points. Meanwhile, Hoàng Xuân Vinh took the lead halfway through. He and Kim continued to shoot well in the next pair, creating a 4.5 and 4.4 point lead over Jin, who had moved up to third place with a pair of 10+ shots. Han created some separation at the bottom from Wang and Gontcharov, the latter of whom was eliminated at 0.2 back of the former.

The 13th and 14th shots went very well for Jin, decently for Hoàng Xuân Vinh, and less well for Kim. The Vietnamese shooter opened a 1.5 point lead over the North Korean, but the South Korean inched a point closer to 3.5 points behind the leader (and 2 points behind Kim for second). Wang was unable to close ground on Han, and was eliminated. Shots 15 and 16 for the remaining four shooters saw 5 of 8 in the 10-ring; Kim had two of the three 9s, however, and finished the pair tied with Jin in second. They were now 2.3 points behind Hoàng Xuân Vinh (who had the other 9) as Jin closed ground. Han was well behind the lead group and eliminated in this round, solidifying the medalists.

In the final elimination pair of shots, Jin again hit a pair of 10s; the other two shooters combined for four 9s. Hoàng Xuân Vinh still held the lead, but it was down to 0.2 points now. Kim fell to third place for the first time, just as that position was the elimination place. With only the two shooters left and a very close match, Jin shot 19.3 in the final pair to win, as Hoàng Xuân Vinh only achieved 16.7 (well below needed to preserve his narrow lead).

Rank Shooter Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Int 9 10 Int 11 12 Int 13 14 Int 15 16 Int 17 18 Int 19 20 Total Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jin Jong-oh  South Korea 9.1 8.9 10.0 9.6 9.7 10.1 10.0 8.5 75.9 6.6 9.6 92.1 10.4 10.3 112.8 9.8 10.7 133.3 10.5 10.0 153.8 10.4 10.2 174.4 10.0 9.3 193.7 OR[3]
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hoàng Xuân Vinh  Vietnam 10.4 9.0 9.3 8.9 10.6 9.7 9.4 10.2 77.5 9.9 9.5 96.9 10.5 9.9 117.3 9.8 9.7 136.8 10.0 9.3 156.1 9.4 9.1 174.6 8.5 8.2 191.3
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kim Song-guk  North Korea 9.7 10.2 9.9 9.3 10.9 10.3 8.7 9.4 78.4 9.3 8.9 96.6 10.6 10.0 117.2 9.7 8.4 135.3 9.0 9.5 153.8 9.2 9.8 172.8 172.8
4 Han Seung-woo  South Korea 9.4 8.4 10.0 8.1 9.9 10.1 8.7 10.3 74.9 10.5 9.0 94.4 9.8 7.9 112.1 10.4 8.1 130.6 10.2 10.2 151.0 151.0
5 Wang Zhiwei  China 10.1 10.0 9.2 9.1 9.6 10.1 10.3 8.1 76.5 8.8 10.0 95.3 7.2 8.7 111.2 9.7 8.5 129.4 129.4
6 Vladimir Gontcharov  Russia 8.1 10.3 8.1 8.4 9.8 10.2 10.3 9.3 74.5 10.0 9.5 94.0 7.8 9.2 111.0 111.0
7 Pavol Kopp  Slovakia 7.6 10.0 9.4 10.3 10.5 8.4 9.8 10.3 76.3 8.0 7.1 91.4 91.4
8 Pang Wei  China 7.3 9.7 10.4 8.6 8.0 8.3 7.2 7.7 67.2 67.2

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Free Pistol, 50 Metres, Men's". Olympedia. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Results - 50m Pistol Men" (PDF). Olympic Shooting Centre. Rio 2016. 10 August 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
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