Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Men's 50 metre pistol at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Royal Artillery Barracks
Date	5 August 2012
Competitors	38 from 27 nations
Winning score	662.0
Medalists
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.

Records

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

Qualification records
World record	Jin Jong-Oh (KOR)	583	Granada, Spain	9 September 2014
Olympic record	Aleksandr Melentiev (URS)	581	Moscow, Soviet Union	20 July 1980

Final records
World record	William Demarest (USA)	676.2 (577+99.2)	Milan, Italy	4 June 2000
Olympic record	Boris Kokorev (RUS)	666.4 (570+96.4)	Atlanta, United States	23 July 1996

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Notes
1	Choi Young-Rae	South Korea	98	94	93	92	95	97	569	Q
2	Wang Zhiwei	China	95	95	95	98	93	90	566	Q
3	Andrija Zlatić	Serbia	92	97	95	91	96	93	564	Q
4	Hoang Xuan Vinh	Vietnam	94	95	96	92	92	94	563	Q
5	Jin Jong-Oh	South Korea	97	95	94	91	92	93	562	Q
6	Christian Reitz	Germany	94	94	94	95	92	91	560	Q
7	Leonid Yekimov	Russia	94	93	94	95	95	89	560	Q
8	Giuseppe Giordano	Italy	93	96	93	92	93	92	559	Shoot Off: 49.6, Q
9	João Costa	Portugal	93	95	97	92	91	91	559	Shoot Off: 49.5
10	Vladimir Isakov	Russia	92	98	95	91	92	91	559	Shoot Off: 49.0
11	Tomoyuki Matsuda	Japan	94	90	96	92	93	94	559	Shoot Off: 49.0
12	İsmail Keleş	Turkey	94	92	94	94	94	91	559	Shoot Off: 46.5
13	Yusuf Dikeç	Turkey	95	94	94	92	92	92	559	Shoot Off: 46.5
14	Jakkrit Panichpatikum	Thailand	96	90	90	93	96	94	558
15	Nickolaus Mowrer	United States	93	93	90	93	94	95	558
16	Damir Mikec	Serbia	92	90	94	95	94	93	558
17	Florian Schmidt	Germany	95	94	91	94	95	88	557
18	Norayr Bakhtamyan	Armenia	95	96	87	91	94	94	557
19	Daniel Repacholi	Australia	94	95	90	93	90	95	557
20	Pavol Kopp	Slovakia	92	92	96	92	90	94	556
21	Walter Lapeyre	France	91	93	90	93	92	95	554
22	Pablo Carrera	Spain	91	94	92	91	94	92	554
23	Juraj Tužinský	Slovakia	91	97	90	90	96	90	554
24	Francesco Bruno	Italy	90	92	93	92	96	90	553
25	Zhang Tian	China	92	87	93	92	95	94	553
26	Kai Jahnsson	Finland	91	91	93	90	92	95	552
27	Ebrahim Barkhordari	Iran	95	89	91	94	91	92	552
28	Daryl Szarenski	United States	92	95	91	89	88	95	550
29	Oleh Omelchuk	Ukraine	92	89	91	91	94	91	548
30	Kanstantsin Lukashyk	Belarus	94	93	90	91	92	87	547
31	Andrei Kazak	Belarus	93	88	93	91	92	90	547
32	Ásgeir Sigurgeirsson	Iceland	89	92	92	92	93	86	544
33	Franck Dumoulin	France	89	88	92	89	92	91	541
34	Vyacheslav Podlesnyy	Kazakhstan	89	91	88	89	89	94	540
35	Roger Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	89	93	91	90	87	89	539
36	Sergio Sánchez	Guatemala	91	90	88	89	89	86	533
37	Arben Kucana	Albania	89	84	89	89	90	83	524
38	Nikola Šaranović	Montenegro	83	84	90	88	91	88	524

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total	Shoot-off	Notes
	Jin Jong-Oh (KOR)	562	10.2	9.5	9.8	9.8	10.6	10.6	9.5	10.3	9.5	10.2	100.0	662.0
	Choi Young-Rae (KOR)	569	8.8	9.8	10.5	9.8	7.4	10.5	9.2	9.0	9.4	8.1	92.5	661.5
	Wang Zhiwei (CHN)	566	10.3	9.0	8.7	7.2	9.7	8.4	10.1	8.9	9.7	10.6	92.6	658.6
4	Hoang Xuan Vinh (VIE)	563	9.6	8.3	10.1	9.3	9.7	10.0	10.4	10.6	7.3	10.2	95.5	658.5
5	Giuseppe Giordano (ITA)	559	9.5	10.2	10.5	9.6	8.6	9.1	10.6	10.3	9.2	9.4	97.0	656.0
6	Andrija Zlatić (SRB)	564	8.1	10.2	8.9	9.3	7.7	9.3	10.3	10.4	10.1	7.6	91.9	655.9
7	Christian Reitz (GER)	560	10.1	7.3	8.1	8.9	10.7	10.3	10.8	9.0	10.2	8.9	94.3	654.3
8	Leonid Yekimov (RUS)	560	9.0	9.1	10.3	9.7	9.9	9.6	8.6	8.8	10.4	6.6	92.0	652.0