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Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Mixed 25 metre rapid fire pistol

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25 metre rapid fire pistol
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Corneliu Ion
VenueDynamo Shooting Range
Date25 July 1980
Competitors40 from 25 nations
Winning score596
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Corneliu Ion
 Romania
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jürgen Wiefel
 East Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gerhard Petritsch
 Austria
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(men's) →

The mixed ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol shooting competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 25 July at the Dynamo Shooting Range in Moscow, USSR.[1] There were 40 competitors from 25 nations.[2] Nations had been limited to two shooters each since the 1952 Games. The event was won by Corneliu Ion of Romania, the nation's first victory in the event since 1956 and second overall (tying Poland and Hungary for second-most all-time, behind the United States with 3). East German Jürgen Wiefel repeated as silver medalist, becoming the sixth man to win multiple medals in the event. Austria earned its first rapid fire pistol medal with Gerhard Petritsch's bronze.

Background

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This was the 16th 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]

Six of the top 10 shooters from 1976 returned: silver medalist Jürgen Wiefel of East Germany, bronze medalist Roberto Ferraris of Italy, fourth-place finisher Afanasijs Kuzmins of the Soviet Union, fifth-place finisher Corneliu Ion of Romania, seventh-place finisher Gerhard Petritsch of Austria, and eighth-place finisher Marin Stan of Romania. Ove Gunnarsson of Sweden was the reigning world champion (1978); the runner-up (West German Werner Beier) was absent due to the American-led boycott. Petritsch had finished third at worlds.

Costa Rica, Ireland, Laos, and Zimbabwe each made their debut in the event. Italy made its 12th appearance, most of any competing nation and second-most of all nations behind the boycotting United States at 13.

Competition format

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The competition format followed the 1948 format, now very close to the modern rapid fire pistol competition after significant variation before World War II. 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. Ties for medals were broken via shoot-off, with each shoot-off round consisting of 3 series of 5 shots.

A holdover from the previous Games was that silhouettes, rather than round targets, continued to be used; however, scoring rings had been added so that now each shot was scored up to 10 rather than being strictly hit or miss.

One change from 1948–1956 was that hits were no longer the primary measurement of success. As in 1960–1976, ranking was done by score, regardless of hits.[2][6]

Records

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

World record
Olympic record  Norbert Klaar (GDR) 597 Montreal, Canada 22–23 July 1976

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Thursday, 24 July 1980 Course 1
Friday, 25 July 1980 Course 2

Results

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Rank Shooter Nation Course 1 Course 2 Total Notes
1 Corneliu Ion  Romania 299 297 596 Q
Jürgen Wiefel  East Germany 299 297 596 Q
Gerhard Petritsch  Austria 297 299 596 Q
4 Vladas Turla  Soviet Union 296 299 595
5 Roberto Ferraris  Italy 296 299 595
6 Afanasijs Kuzmins  Soviet Union 297 298 595
7 Marin Stan  Romania 298 297 595
8 Rafael Rodríguez  Cuba 297 297 594
9 So Gil-San  North Korea 298 296 594
10 László Orbán  Hungary 294 299 593
11 Andreas Franke  East Germany 297 296 593
12 Ivan Mandov  Bulgaria 297 295 592
Gianfranco Mantelli  Italy 295 297 592
14 Andrzej Macur  Poland 296 295 591
Józef Zapędzki  Poland 295 296 591
16 Ove Gunnarsson  Sweden 297 293 590
Todor Stoimenov  Bulgaria 294 296 590
18 Wibout Jolles  Netherlands 292 297 589
19 Fernando Gomes  Brazil 293 295 588
Hermann Sailer  Austria 293 295 588
Yun Chang-Ho  North Korea 292 296 588
22 Jaime González  Spain 293 293 586
23 Nguyễn Quốc Cường  Vietnam 292 293 585
Franc Petemel  Yugoslavia 290 295 585
25 Pedro García Jr.  Peru 292 292 584
26 Vladimír Hurt  Czechoslovakia 285 298 583
Nguyễn Đức Uýnh  Vietnam 292 291 583
Juan Seguí  Spain 294 289 583
29 Olavi Heikkinen  Finland 295 287 582
30 Gábor Plank  Hungary 295 285 580
31 Marco Hidalgo  Costa Rica 289 290 579
Ragnar Skanåker  Sweden 292 287 579
33 Christian Raynaud  Belgium 290 286 576
Ian Redmond  Zimbabwe 287 289 576
Ken Stanford  Ireland 288 288 576
36 Roberto Tamagnini  San Marino 287 285 572
37 Bruno Morri  San Marino 280 290 570
38 David Westerhout  Zimbabwe 271 258 529
39 Khamsing  Laos 258 241 499
40 Khamphanh  Laos 243 210 453
Shoot-off
Rank Shooter Nation Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
1st place, gold medalist(s) Corneliu Ion  Romania 148 147 148
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jürgen Wiefel  East Germany 148 147 147
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gerhard Petritsch  Austria 146

References

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  1. ^ "Shooting at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Mixed Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 metres, Open". 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. ^ Official Report, vol. 3, p. 539.