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

Men's 50 metre running target at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date	September 23, 1988
Competitors	23 from 16 nations
Winning score	689 (OR)
Medalists
Tor Heiestad   Norway   Huang Shiping   China   Gennadi Avramenko   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 running target made its final Olympic appearance at the 1988 Summer Olympics (after which it was replaced by 10 metre running target). It was also the only time the 30 slow runs and 30 fast runs were followed by a ten-shot final (fast runs) for the top four contestants. Gennadi Avramenko and Tor Heiestad established a new Olympic record of 591 points, and Heiestad won the final, where Avramenko was also surpassed by Huang Shiping.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Slow	Fast	Total	Notes
1	Gennadi Avramenko	Soviet Union	294	297	591	Q OR
1	Tor Heiestad	Norway	299	292	591	Q OR
3	Huang Shiping	China	296	293	589	Q
4	Ján Kermiet	Czechoslovakia	295	293	588	Q
5	Andras Doleschall	Hungary	296	292	588
6	Attila Solti	Hungary	296	292	588
7	Thomas Pfeffer	East Germany	298	289	587
8	Christian Stützinger	West Germany	297	289	586
9	Jan Pettersson	Sweden	292	294	586
10	Ji Gang	China	295	291	586
11	Jean-Luc Tricoire	France	295	291	586
12	Jerzy Greszkiewicz	Poland	297	287	584
12	Luboš Račanský	Czechoslovakia	295	289	584
14	Oleg Moldovan	Soviet Union	294	289	583
15	Mike Herrmann	East Germany	295	287	582
15	Wojciech Karkusiewicz	Poland	294	288	582
17	Todd Bensley	United States	295	286	581
18	Scott Swinney	United States	289	291	580
19	Valerio Donnianni	Italy	291	286	577
19	Hong Seung-pyo	South Korea	291	286	577
21	David Lee	Canada	292	281	573
22	Bryan Wilson	Australia	291	282	573
23	Carlos Silva Monterrosa	Guatemala	284	285	569

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total	Notes
	Tor Heiestad (NOR)	591	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	8	10	98	689	OR
	Huang Shiping (CHN)	589	10	10	9	10	10	10	10	9	10	10	98	687
	Gennadi Avramenko (URS)	591	10	7	10	10	9	9	10	10	10	10	95	686
4	Ján Kermiet (TCH)	588	9	10	7	10	9	10	9	10	7	10	91	679

OR Olympic record

References

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