The men's ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 4 and 5 August 2024 at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre. 29 shooters from 20 nations are expected to compete in the rapid fire pistol, with the precise number depending on how many shooters compete in multiple events.
Qualification
Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter up to two shooters if the NOC earns enough quota sports or has enough double starter-qualified shooters. To compete, a shooter needs a quota spot and to achieve a Minimum Qualification Score (MQS). Once a shooter is using a quota spot in any shooting event, they can enter any other shooting event for which they have achieved the MQS as well (a double starter qualification). There are 29 quota spots available for the rapid fire pistol.
Competition format
The competition format will continue to use the two-round (qualifying round and final) format, as in 1988 and since 1996, with the final format introduced in 2012. The 2005 rules changes required the pistols used to be sport pistols, banning .22 Short cartridges.
The qualifying round from 1988 onward was essentially the same as the full competition format from 1948 to 1984. Each shooter fired 60 shots. These were done in two courses of 30; each course consisted of two stages of 15; each stage consisted of three series of 5. In each stage, the time limit for each series was 8 seconds for the first, 6 seconds for the second, and 4 seconds for the third.
The 1988 tournament had added a two-series final for the top eight shooters; the 1992 competition broke that down to a four-series semifinal for the top eight and two-series final for the top four. In 1996 and 2000, the top eight once again advanced to the final. The 2004 version had reduced the number of finalists to six, where it stayed in 2008 and 2012.
Prior to 2008, the final involved two series of 5 shots at 4 seconds. In 2008, that was expanded to four series. The 2012 competition used an entirely different format, however, which remained in effect in 2016 and 2020. The competition switched to a "hit-or-miss" system, where a 9.7 or better scores as a "hit" for 1 point and anything lower scores as a "miss" for 0 points. The final featured 8 series of 5 shots each (5 points maximum per series, 40 points maximum total). However, starting with the fourth series, the remaining shooter with the lowest total was eliminated after each series (5 shooters remaining in the fifth series, 4 in the sixth, 3 in the seventh, and only 2 in the eighth and final series).
The 1992 competition had introduced round targets rather than the silhouettes used from 1948 to 1988 as well as many pre-World War II versions of the event. Score, rather than hits, had been used as the primary ranking method since 1960.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Schedule The competition is held over two days, Sunday, 4 August and Monday, 5 August. The first half of the qualifying round is the first day; the second half of the qualifying round as well as the final is on the second day.
All times are Central European Standard Time (UTC+2)
Date Time Round Sunday, 4 August 2024 9:00 Stage 1 Stage 2 Monday, 5 August 2024 9:00 Final
Results Qualifying Rank Shooter Nation Stage 1 Stage 2 Total Notes 8s 6s 4s Total 8s 6s 4s Total 1 Li Yuehong 97 99 98 294 98 98 98 294 588-30x 2 Wang Xinjie 99 98 96 293 99 98 97 294 587-24x 3 Pavlo Korostylov 98 100 95 293 100 98 96 294 587-17x 4 Cho Yeong-jae 100 100 97 297 99 97 93 289 586-22x 5 Massimo Spinella 100 97 97 294 99 97 96 292 586-19x 6 Florian Peter 99 98 95 292 100 99 94 293 585-27x 7 Clément Bessaguet 100 97 96 293 98 100 94 292 585-17x 8 Maksym Horodynets 99 96 94 289 99 99 97 295 584-14x 9 Vijayveer Sidhu 98 98 97 293 100 98 92 290 583-26x 10 Nikita Chiryukin 98 99 96 293 97 100 93 290 583-20x 11 Peeter Olesk 98 98 93 289 97 100 97 294 583-17x 12 Riccardo Mazzetti 95 97 97 289 100 98 96 294 583-14x 13 Anish Anish 98 98 97 293 99 97 93 289 582-22x 14 Matěj Rampula 99 96 93 288 97 97 99 293 581-22x 15 Ghulam Mustafa Bashir 98 99 95 292 97 97 95 289 581-19x 16 Leuris Pupo 98 97 90 285 100 98 98 296 581-13x 17 Song Jong-ho 98 98 96 292 99 98 91 288 580-26x 18 Ruslan Lunev 98 98 93 289 98 100 93 291 580-22x 19 Keith Sanderson 98 98 93 289 99 97 94 290 579-16x 20 Enkhtaivany Davaakhüü 97 98 93 288 99 95 96 290 578-20x 21 Jorge Álvarez 96 96 98 290 100 94 94 288 578-18x 22 Jean Quiquampoix 98 96 96 290 100 94 94 288 578-16x 23 Christian Reitz 99 98 94 291 98 98 90 286 577-15x 24 Omar Mohamed 97 97 94 288 98 97 93 288 576-18x 25 Henry Turner Leverett 96 97 93 286 98 93 96 287 573-16x 26 Sergei Evglevski 96 95 92 283 99 97 94 290 573-14x 27 Martin Podhráský 95 99 92 286 100 96 91 287 573-11x 28 Dai Yoshioka 98 93 93 284 98 96 94 288 572-12x 29 Douglas Gómez 95 94 95 284 96 99 90 285 569-12x Source:
Final
RankAthleteNationSeriesNotes1 2345678 Li Yuehong 58121418232732 Cho Yeong-jae 36111519212425 Wang Xinjie 581113172023 4Florian Peter 2711141820* colspan="2" 5Pavlo Korostylov 46101416 colspan="3" 6Massimo Spinella 14910 colspan="4" Source:
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