Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol

Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Royal Artillery Barracks
Date	2 August 2012 3 August 2012
Competitors	18 from 13 nations
Winning score	34
Medalists
Leuris Pupo  Cuba Vijay Kumar  India Ding Feng  China

The Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2012 Olympic Games was held on 2 and 3 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 25 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. Targets were presented in series of 5. Each shooter was presented with 12 series, and had a sharply limited time to complete each. Four of the series had to be completed in 8 seconds apiece, four more within 6 seconds, and four within 4 seconds.

The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round, where they fired an additional 40 shots. They were presented in eight series of 5 shots each, with each series being limited to 4 seconds to make all five shots. After the 4th round, the competitor with the lowest score was eliminated for each round resulting in the top 2 fighting for gold in the last round. The total score from all 40 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	Alexei Klimov (RUS)	591	Granada, Spain	6 October 2006
Olympic record	Keith Sanderson (USA)	583	Beijing, China	16 August 2008

Final records
World record	Alexei Klimov (RUS) Christian Reitz (GER)	34	Milan, Italy	19 May 2012
Olympic record	ISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005	–	–	–

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	8	6	4	ST1	8	6	4	ST2	Total	Notes
1	Alexei Klimov	Russia	98	100	96	294	99	99	100	298	592	Q,WR
2	Ding Feng	China	98	98	97	293	99	99	97	295	588	Q
3	Leuris Pupo	Cuba	99	98	96	293	99	98	96	293	586	Q
4	Vijay Kumar	India	99	96	98	293	98	97	97	292	585	Q
5	Zhang Jian	China	98	98	97	293	99	97	91	291	584	Q
6	Christian Reitz	Germany	99	98	95	292	97	97	97	291	583	Q
7	Martin Podhráský	Czech Republic	96	98	99	293	99	95	96	290	583
8	Leonid Yekimov	Russia	96	98	95	289	99	97	97	293	582
9	Martin Strnad	Czech Republic	98	97	92	287	97	99	97	293	580
10	Kim Dae-Yoong	South Korea	98	98	94	290	97	95	97	289	579
11	Jorge Llames	Spain	99	95	94	288	96	99	96	291	579
12	Roman Bondaruk	Ukraine	98	94	92	284	99	99	97	295	579
13	Emil Milev	United States	98	98	96	292	98	94	94	286	578
14	Keith Sanderson	United States	98	96	94	288	99	97	94	290	578
15	Jakkrit Panichpatikum	Thailand	99	99	93	291	97	97	93	287	578
16	Ralf Schumann	Germany	96	97	94	287	97	98	95	290	577
17	Afanasijs Kuzmins	Latvia	98	97	94	289	96	93	91	280	569
18	David Chapman	Australia	82	94	92	278	97	91	93	281	559

Final

Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	Int	5	Int	6	Int	7	Int	8	Total	Notes
	Leuris Pupo (CUB)	3	5	5	5	18	4	22	4	26	4	30	4	34	=FWR, OR
	Vijay Kumar (IND)	5	4	4	3	16	4	20	4	24	4	28	2	30
	Ding Feng (CHN)	4	5	4	3	16	4	20	4	24	3	27
4	Alexei Klimov (RUS)	5	4	3	2	14	4	18	5	23
5	Zhang Jian (CHN)	3	5	4	2	14	3	17
6	Christian Reitz (GER)	3	3	4	3	13

References

1. http://www.london2012.com/shooting/event/men-25m-rapid-fire-pistol/index.html?v=20120803-113407157