Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol
| Men's 50 metre pistol at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
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| Venue | Beijing Shooting Range Hall | ||||||||||||
| Date | August 12, 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 45 from 32 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 660.4 | ||||||||||||
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Jin Jong-oh |
 South Korea
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Tan Zongliang |
 China
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Vladimir Isakov |
 Russia
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The Men's 50 metre pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 12 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a pistol at 50 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.
The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots was used to determine final ranking.
Kim Jong-su of North Korea originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified after he tested positive for propranolol.
The existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
DQ Disqualified – Q Qualified for final
^ 1: Kim was second in the original official result list for the qualification round, but was disqualified after the final had taken place. In the final version of the document, Kim's result is removed and the second place is empty, indicating that no extra shooter had been allowed into the final.
DQ Disqualified
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