Free pistol at the Olympics

The "free" pistol is former and still unofficially used name for the men's ISSF 50 meter pistol competition held at the Olympics. "Free" pistol is used to distinguish between other pistol disciplines (air, rapid fire, standard, sport, military/centre-fire). The competition was first held at the inaugural 1896 Olympics (at 30 metres) and then held at 50 metres (or yards, in 1908) each time that shooting was on the programme (that is, excluding 1904) until 1920. It was dropped from the programme for amateurism reasons from 1924 to 1932, but returned in 1936. It was held again at every Games from then until 2016; the event, which had no women's equivalent, was dropped after 2016 to make room for a mixed team air pistol event as the sport moved toward gender equality. In all, the event was held 24 times.[1] The event was open to women from 1968 to 1980, although very few women participated these years.

ISSF 50 meter pistol
at the Olympic Games
Alfred Lane, 1912 Olympic pistol champion
Overview
SportShooting
GenderMen
Years heldMen: 1896, 1900, 19081920, 19362016
Reigning champion
Men Jin Jong-oh (KOR)

A team event was held four times from 1904 to 1920.

Medals

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
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Sumner Paine
  United States
Holger Nielsen
  Denmark
Ioannis Frangoudis
  Greece
1900 Paris
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Karl Röderer
  Switzerland
Achille Paroche
  France
Konrad Stäheli
  Switzerland
1904 St. Louis Not held
1908 London
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Paul Van Asbroeck
  Belgium
Réginald Storms
  Belgium
James Gorman
  United States
1912 Stockholm
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Alfred Lane
  United States
Peter Dolfen
  United States
Charles Stewart
  Great Britain
1920 Antwerp
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Karl Frederick
  United States
Afrânio da Costa
  Brazil
Alfred Lane
  United States
1924 Paris Not held
1928 Amsterdam Not held
1932 Los Angeles Not held
1936 Berlin
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Torsten Ullman
  Sweden
Erich Krempel
  Germany
Charles des Jammonières
  France
1948 London
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Edwin Vásquez
  Peru
Rudolf Schnyder
  Switzerland
Torsten Ullman
  Sweden
1952 Helsinki
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Huelet Benner
  United States
Ángel León
  Spain
Ambrus Balogh
  Hungary
1956 Melbourne
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Pentti Linnosvuo
  Finland
Makhmud Umarov
  Soviet Union
Offutt Pinion
  United States
1960 Rome
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Aleksey Gushchin
  Soviet Union
Makhmud Umarov
  Soviet Union
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa
  Japan
1964 Tokyo
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Väinö Markkanen
  Finland
Franklin Green
  United States
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa
  Japan
1968 Mexico City
details (mixed)
Grigory Kosykh
  Soviet Union
Heinz Mertel
  West Germany
Harald Vollmar
  East Germany
1972 Munich
details (mixed)
Ragnar Skanåker
  Sweden
Daniel Iuga
  Romania
Rudolf Dollinger
  Austria
1976 Montreal
details (mixed)
Uwe Potteck
  East Germany
Harald Vollmar
  East Germany
Rudolf Dollinger
  Austria
1980 Moscow
details (mixed)
Aleksandr Melentyev
  Soviet Union
Harald Vollmar
  East Germany
Lyubcho Dyakov
  Bulgaria
1984 Los Angeles
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Xu Haifeng
  China
Ragnar Skanåker
  Sweden
Wang Yifu
  China
1988 Seoul
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Sorin Babii
  Romania
Ragnar Skanåker
  Sweden
Igor Basinski
  Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona
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Kanstantsin Lukashyk
  Unified Team
Wang Yifu
  China
Ragnar Skanåker
  Sweden
1996 Atlanta
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Boris Kokorev
  Russia
Igor Basinski
  Belarus
Roberto Di Donna
  Italy
2000 Sydney
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Tanyu Kiryakov
  Bulgaria
Igor Basinski
  Belarus
Martin Tenk
  Czech Republic
2004 Athens
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Mikhail Nestruyev
  Russia
Jin Jong-oh
  South Korea
Kim Jong-su
  North Korea
2008 Beijing
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Jin Jong-oh
  South Korea
Tan Zongliang
  China
Vladimir Isakov
  Russia
2012 London
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Jin Jong-Oh
  South Korea
Choi Young-Rae
  South Korea
Wang Zhiwei
  China
2016 Rio de Janeiro
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Jin Jong-oh
  South Korea
Hoàng Xuân Vinh
  Vietnam
Kim Song-guk
  North Korea

Multiple medalists

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Rank Gymnast Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Jin Jong-oh   South Korea (KOR) 2004–2016 3 1 0 4
2 Ragnar Skanåker   Sweden (SWE) 1972, 1984–1992 1 2 1 4
3 Alfred Lane   United States (USA) 1912–1920 1 0 1 2
Torsten Ullman   Sweden (SWE) 1936–1948 1 0 1 2
5 Harald Vollmar   East Germany (GDR) 1968, 1976–1980 0 2 1 3
Igor Basinski   Soviet Union (URS)
  Belarus (BLR)
1988, 1996–2000 0 2 1 3
7 Makhmud Umarov   Soviet Union (URS) 1956–1960 0 2 0 2
8 Wang Yifu   China (CHN) 1988–1992 0 1 1 2
9 Yoshihisa Yoshikawa   Japan (JPN) 1960–1964 0 0 2 2
Rudolf Dollinger   Austria (AUT) 1972–1976 0 0 2 2

Medalists by nation

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1   United States (USA) 4 2 3 9
2   Soviet Union (URS) 3 2 1 6
3   South Korea (KOR) 3 2 0 5
4   Sweden (SWE) 2 2 2 6
5   Russia (RUS) 2 0 1 3
6   Finland (FIN) 2 0 0 2
7   China (CHN) 1 2 2 5
8   East Germany (GDR) 1 2 1 4
9   Switzerland (SUI) 1 1 1 3
10   Belgium (BEL) 1 1 0 2
  Romania (ROU) 1 1 0 2
12   Bulgaria (BUL) 1 0 1 2
13   Peru (PER) 1 0 0 1
  Unified Team (EUN) 1 0 0 1
15   Belarus (BLR) 0 2 0 2
16   France (FRA) 0 1 1 2
17   Brazil (BRA) 0 1 0 1
  Denmark (DEN) 0 1 0 1
  Germany (GER) 0 1 0 1
  West Germany (FRG) 0 1 0 1
  Spain (ESP) 0 1 0 1
  Vietnam (VIE) 0 1 0 1
23   Austria (AUT) 0 0 2 2
  Japan (JPN) 0 0 2 2
  North Korea (PRK) 0 0 2 2
26   Czech Republic (CZE) 0 0 1 1
  Great Britain (GBR) 0 0 1 1
  Greece (GRE) 0 0 1 1
  Hungary (HUN) 0 0 1 1
  Italy (ITA) 0 0 1 1

Team pistol

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
1900 Paris
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Friedrich Lüthi, Paul Probst, Louis Richardet, Karl Röderer, Konrad Stäheli
  Switzerland
Louis Duffoy, Maurice Lecoq, Léon Moreaux, Achille Paroche, Jules Trinité
  France
Solko van den Bergh, Antonius Bouwens, Dirk Boest Gips, Henrik Sillem, Anthony Sweijs
  Netherlands
1908 London
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Charles Axtell, Irving Calkins, John Dietz, James Gorman
  United States
René Englebert, Charles Paumier du Verger, Réginald Storms, Paul Van Asbroeck
  Belgium
Geoffrey Coles, William Ellicott, Henry Lynch-Staunton, Jesse Wallingford
  Great Britain
1912 Stockholm
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John Dietz, Peter Dolfen, Alfred Lane, Henry Sears
  United States
Erik Boström, Eric Carlberg, Vilhelm Carlberg, Georg de Laval
  Sweden
Hugh Durant, Albert Kempster, Horatio Poulter, Charles Stewart
  Great Britain
1920 Antwerp
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Raymond Bracken, Karl Frederick, Michael Kelly, Alfred Lane, James H. Snook
  United States
Anders Andersson, Gunnar Gabrielsson, Sigvard Hultcrantz, Anders Johnson, Casimir Reuterskiöld
  Sweden
Dario Barbosa, Afrânio da Costa, Guilherme Paraense, Fernando Soledade, Sebastião Wolf
  Brazil

Multiple medalists

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Rank Gymnast Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 John Dietz   United States (USA) 1908–1912 2 0 0 2
Alfred Lane   United States (USA) 1912–1920 2 0 0 2

Medalists by nation

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1   United States (USA) 3 0 0 3
2   Switzerland (SUI) 1 0 0 1
3   Sweden (SWE) 0 2 0 2
4   Belgium (BEL) 0 1 0 1
  France (FRA) 0 1 0 1
6   Great Britain (GBR) 0 0 2 2
7   Brazil (BRA) 0 0 1 1
  Netherlands (NED) 0 0 1 1

References

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  1. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2020.