Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Men's 50 metre pistol at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date	September 18, 1988
Competitors	43 from 31 nations
Winning score	660 (OR)
Medalists
Sorin Babii   Romania   Ragnar Skanåker   Sweden   Igor Basinski   Soviet Union

Shooting at the 1988 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		mixed
Skeet		mixed
Running target
50 m running target		men

Men's 50 metre pistol (then called free pistol) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. It was the first Olympic free pistol competition to feature final shooting.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Igor Basinski	Soviet Union	570	Q
2	Sorin Babii	Romania	566	Q
3	Tanyu Kiryakov	Bulgaria	566	Q
4	Ragnar Skanåker	Sweden	564	Q
5	Gyula Karácsony	Hungary	564	Q
6	Wang Yifu	China	563	Q
7	Arndt Kaspar	West Germany	562	Q
8	Gernot Eder	East Germany	561	Q
9	Uwe Potteck	East Germany	559
10	Zoltán Papanitz	Hungary	559
11	Don Nygord	United States	559
12	Aleksandr Melentiev	Soviet Union	558
12	Dario Palazzani	Italy	558
14	Benny Östlund	Sweden	557
14	Jerzy Pietrzak	Poland	557
16	Jean Bogaerts	Belgium	556
16	Miroslav Růžička	Czechoslovakia	556
16	Darius Young	United States	556
19	Phillip Adams	Australia	555
19	Philippe Cola	France	555
19	Sakari Paasonen	Finland	555
19	Tu Tai-hsing	Chinese Taipei	555
23	Roberto Di Donna	Italy	554
23	Lyubtcho Diakov	Bulgaria	554
23	Alfons Messerschmitt	West Germany	554
23	Bengt Sandstrom	Australia	554
23	Fumihisa Semizuki	Japan	554
23	Xu Haifeng	China	554
29	Min Young-sam	South Korea	552
29	Bernardo Tobar	Colombia	552
29	U. G. King Hung	Hong Kong	552
32	Hans Hierzer	Austria	550
33	Bruno Deprez	France	547
34	Paul Leatherdale	Great Britain	546
34	Undralbatiin Lkhagvaa	Mongolia	546
36	Rolf Beutler	Switzerland	545
36	Konstantinos Panageas	Greece	545
38	Horst Krasser	Austria	543
39	Carlos Hora	Peru	540
40	Lisandro Sugezky	Argentina	539
41	Greg Yelavich	New Zealand	535
42	Shuaib Adam	Kenya	532
43	Hubert Foidl	Denmark	531

Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
	Sorin Babii (ROU)	566	94	660	OR
	Ragnar Skanåker (SWE)	564	93	657
	Igor Basinski (URS)	570	87	657
4	Tanyu Kiryakov (BUL)	566	90	656
5	Gernot Eder (GDR)	561	93	654
6	Gyula Karácsony (HUN)	564	90	654
7	Arndt Kaspar (FRG)	562	89	651
8	Wang Yifu (CHN)	563	88	651

OR Olympic record

References

• XXIVth Olympiad Seoul 1988 Official Report – Volume 2 Part 2 (PDF). Retrieved 2008-09-28.