Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol

The men's ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 and 13 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.[1] There were 26 competitors from 20 nations.[2] The event was won by Christian Reitz of Germany, the nation's first victory in the event and fifth overall (most of any nation). Reitz, the bronze medalist in 2008, was the 12th man to win multiple medals in the rapid fire pistol. Jean Quiquampoix of France took silver, the nation's first medal in the event since 1900. China took bronze, just as in 2012, this time by Li Yuehong.

Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Aerial view of the National Shooting Center in Deodoro, where the Men's 25m rapid fire pistol took place.
VenueNational Shooting Center
Dates12–13 August 2016
Competitors26 from 20 nations
Winning score34
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Christian Reitz
 Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jean Quiquampoix
 France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Li Yuehong
 China
← 2012
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The medals were presented by Austin Sealy, IOC member, Barbados and Franz Schreiber, Secretary General of the International Shooting Sport Federation.

Background

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This was the 25th appearance of what had been standardised in 1948 as the men's ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol event, the only event on the 2020 programme that traces back to 1896.[2] The event has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1904 and 1928 (when no shooting events were held) and 1908; it was nominally open to women from 1968 to 1980, although very few women participated these years.[3] The first five events were quite different, with some level of consistency finally beginning with the 1932 event—which, though it had differences from the 1924 competition, was roughly similar. The 1936 competition followed the 1932 one quite closely.[4] The post-World War II event substantially altered the competition once again.[5] The 1984 Games introduced women's-only shooting events, including the ISSF 25 meter pistol (though this is more similar to the non-Olympic men's ISSF 25 meter center-fire pistol than the rapid fire pistol).

Three of the six finalists from 2012 returned: gold medalist Leuris Pupo of Cuba, fourth-place finisher Alexei Klimov of Russia, and sixth place finisher (and 2008 bronze medalist) Christian Reitz of Germany. For the first time since 1984, Ralf Schumann was not competing. The 2014 world championship podium had been Korean shooter Kim Jun-hong, German shooter Oliver Geis, and Chinese shooter Li Yuehong. Kim and Reitz shared the world record for the qualifying round.[2]

Azerbaijan and Estonia each made their debut in the event. The United States made its 21st appearance, most of any nation.

Qualification

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Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to two shooters if the NOC earned enough quota sports or had enough crossover-qualified shooters. To compete, a shooter needed a quota spot and to achieve a Minimum Qualification Score (MQS). Once a shooter was using a quota spot in any shooting event, they could enter any other shooting event for which they had achieved the MQS as well (a crossover qualification). There were 18 quota spots available for the rapid fire pistol: 1 for the host nation (Brazil), 2 at the 2014 World Championship, 8 at the 2015 World Cup events (2 spots at each of 4 events), and 7 for continental events (2 each for Europe and Asia, 1 each for Americas, Africa, and Oceania). Four additional quota places were added through exchange from other events, a Tripartite Commission invitation, and re-allocation of unused quota. In 2016, four crossover qualifications (sharply increased from the one per year the last few Games) were used in the rapid fire pistol, 3 from the 10 metre air pistol and 1 from the 50 metre pistol.

Competition format

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The competition format continued 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 1948–1984. 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. 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.[2][6]

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualifying records
World record   Christian Reitz (GER)
  Kim Jun-hong (KOR)
593 Osijek, Croatia
Beijing, China
30 July 2013
6 July 2014
Olympic record   Alexei Klimov (RUS) 592 London, United Kingdom 3 August 2012
Final records
World record   Riccardo Mazzetti (ITA)
  Leonid Ekimov (RUS)
  Alexei Klimov (RUS)
35 Beijing, China
Gabala, Azerbaijan
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6 July 2014
24 October 2014
23 April 2016
Olympic record   Leuris Pupo (CUB) 34 London, United Kingdom 3 August 2012

Christian Reitz matched the Olympic records in both the qualifying and final rounds.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Friday, 12 August 2016 Qualifying: Course 1
Saturday, 13 August 2016  
12:30
Qualifying: Course 2
Final

Results

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Qualifying

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Rank Shooter Nation Course 1 Course 2 Total Xs Notes
8 seconds 6 seconds 4 seconds Total 8 seconds 6 seconds 4 seconds Total
1 Christian Reitz   Germany 100 99 97 296 100 100 96 296 592 27 Q, =OR
2 Zhang Fusheng   China 99 99 94 292 100 99 99 298 590 27 Q
3 Jean Quiquampoix   France 99 98 96 293 99 99 95 293 586 19 Q
4 Riccardo Mazzetti   Italy 98 98 96 292 97 99 98 294 586 18 Q
5 Li Yuehong   China 97 97 96 290 97 99 98 294 584 23 Q
6 Leuris Pupo   Cuba 95 100 95 290 100 98 95 293 583 19 Q
7 Gurpreet Singh   India 100 99 90 289 97 98 97 292 581 24
8 Kim Jun-hong   South Korea 98 97 92 287 99 98 97 294 581 19
9 Alexei Klimov   Russia 98 97 94 289 98 96 98 292 581 16
10 Keith Sanderson   United States 99 94 97 290 98 99 93 290 580 19
11 Roman Bondaruk   Ukraine 97 96 93 286 100 98 95 293 579 18
12 Emil Milev   United States 96 97 91 284 100 98 96 294 578 19
13 Emerson Duarte   Brazil 98 97 90 285 99 100 94 293 578 19
14 Jorge Llames   Spain 97 99 92 288 98 96 95 289 577 14
15 Ruslan Lunev   Azerbaijan 94 97 97 288 97 96 94 287 575 17
16 Pavlo Korostylov   Ukraine 96 99 98 293 99 96 86 281 574 18
17 Oliver Geis   Germany 97 99 95 291 94 96 91 281 572 22
18 Ghulam Mustafa Bashir   Pakistan 97 94 96 287 98 94 92 284 571 12
19 Eita Mori   Japan 97 96 91 284 95 97 94 286 570 13
20 Piotr Daniluk   Poland 97 97 94 288 97 95 87 279 567 12
21 Kang Min-su   South Korea 97 94 85 276 98 95 95 288 564 19
22 Teruyoshi Akiyama   Japan 98 96 94 288 95 93 88 276 564 18
23 Ahmed Shaban   Egypt 96 92 90 278 96 95 93 284 562 6
24 Marko Carrillo   Peru 94 95 83 272 96 97 92 285 557 14
25 Peeter Olesk   Estonia 92 92 86 270 95 95 93 283 553 8
26 David Chapman   Australia 98 95 76 269 95 96 91 282 551 18

Final

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Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 Int 5 Int 6 Int 7 Int 8 Total Notes
  Christian Reitz   Germany 5 4 4 4 17 4 21 4 25 4 29 5 34 =OR
  Jean Quiquampoix   France 2 4 5 3 14 5 19 5 24 3 27 3 30
  Li Yuehong   China 3 5 4 4 16 4 20 2 22 5 27
4 Zhang Fusheng   China 5 4 5 4 18 2 20 1 21
5 Leuris Pupo   Cuba 5 3 3 4 15 3 18
6 Riccardo Mazzetti   Italy 2 2 4 2 10

References

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  1. ^ "Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 metres, Men's". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Muzzle-Loading Pistol, 25 metres, Men (1896)". Olympedia. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 metres, Men (1936)". Olympedia. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 metres, Men (1948)". Olympedia. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Pistol". The Washington Post. Retrieved 14 December 2020.