Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Men's 50 metre pistol at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Wolf Creek Shooting Complex
Competitors	45 from 27 nations
Winning score	666.4 (OR)
Medalists
Boris Kokorev   Russia   Igor Basinski   Belarus   Roberto Di Donna   Italy

Shooting at the 1996 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		men
Double trap		men		women
Skeet		men
Running target
10 m running target		men

Men's 50 metre pistol (then known as free pistol) was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. The first time decimals were used in the 50 metre pistol finals, Boris Kokorev set a new Olympic record after scoring 570 points in the qualification round and 96.4 in the final, where places 2 through 5 were occupied by Belarusian and Italian shooters.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Boris Kokorev	Russia	570	Q
2	Roberto Di Donna	Italy	569	Q
3	Vigilio Fait	Italy	569	Q
4	Igor Basinski	Belarus	565	Q
5	Kanstantsin Lukashyk	Belarus	564	Q
6	Martin Tenk	Czech Republic	564	Q
7	Wang Yifu	China	564	Q
8	Sergio Sánchez	Guatemala	563	Q (6th: 95)
9	Skukhrat Akhmedov	Uzbekistan	563	(6th: 94)
9	Jerzy Pietrzak	Poland	563	(6th: 94)
11	Franck Dumoulin	France	560
11	Kim Sung-joon	South Korea	560
11	Masaru Nakashige	Japan	560
11	Marek Nowak	Poland	560
15	Stanislav Jirkal	Czech Republic	559
16	Aleksandr Danilov	Russia	558
16	Bernardo Tobar	Colombia	558
16	Alex Tripolski	Israel	558
19	Kolio Zakhariev	Bulgaria	557
20	Sorin Babii	Romania	556
20	Jan Fabo	Czech Republic	556
20	Tanyu Kiryakov	Bulgaria	556
20	Viktor Makarov	Ukraine	556
20	Yuri Melentiev	Kyrgyzstan	556
25	Ben Amonette	United States	555
25	Oleksandr Bliznyuchenko	Ukraine	555
25	Ragnar Skanåker	Sweden	555
28	Gerard Fernandez	France	553
28	Zoltán Papanitz	Hungary	553
30	Phillip Adams	Australia	552
30	Constantin Tarloiu	Romania	552
30	Xu Dan	China	552
33	Zsolt Karacs	Hungary	551
34	Tu Tai Hsing	Chinese Taipei	550
35	Hans-Jürgen Bauer-Neumaier	Germany	549
35	Bengt Sandstrom	Australia	549
37	Artur Gevorgjan	Germany	548
37	Kim Sung-joon	South Korea	548
39	Neal Caloia	United States	544
40	Pål Hembre	Norway	542
40	Surin Klomjai	Thailand	542
42	Lennart Andersson	Sweden	538
43	Jakkrit Panichpatikum	Thailand	536
44	Viet Trinh Quoc	Vietnam	535
45	Jaspal Rana	India	534

Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
	Boris Kokorev (RUS)	570	96.4	666.4	OR
	Igor Basinski (BLR)	565	97.0	662.0
	Roberto Di Donna (ITA)	569	92.8	661.8
4	Kanstantsin Lukashyk (BLR)	564	96.1	660.1
5	Vigilio Fait (ITA)	569	90.8	659.8
6	Wang Yifu (CHN)	564	95.3	659.3
7	Martin Tenk (CZE)	564	93.7	657.7
8	Sergio Sánchez (GUA)	563	94.1	657.1

OR Olympic record

References

• Olympic Report Atlanta 1996 Volume III: The Competition Results (PDF). Retrieved 2008-09-10.