Men's 50 metre pistol at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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Venue | Royal Artillery Barracks | ||||||||||||
Date | 5 August 2012 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 38 from 27 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning score | 662.0 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Jin Jong-Oh | South Korea | ||
Choi Young-Rae | South Korea | ||
Wang Zhiwei | China |
The Men's 50 metre pistol event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 5 August 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks.
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.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.