Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Men's 50 metre pistol at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Melbourne, Australia
Date	30 November
Competitors	33 from 22 nations
Medalists
Pentti Linnosvuo  Finland Makhmud Umarov  Soviet Union Offutt Pinion  United States

The men's 50 metre pistol was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics programme. It was the ninth appearance of the event. The competition was held on 30 November 1956 at the shooting ranges in Melbourne. 33 shooters from 22 nations competed.

Results

Place	Shooter	Total
1	Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN)	556
2	Makhmud Umarov (URS)	556
3	Offutt Pinion (USA)	551
4	Choji Hosaka (JPN)	550
5	Anton Yasynskiy (URS)	550
6	Torsten Ullman (SWE)	549
7	Åke Lindblom (SWE)	542
8	Len Tolhurst (AUS)	541
9	Claudio Fiorentini (ITA)	540
10	Frederick Cooper (GBR)	539
11	Joe Benner (USA)	537
12	František Maxa (TCH)	536
13	James Zavitz (CAN)	536
14	Enrique Hannaberg (COL)	534
15	Raúl Ibarra (MEX)	533
16	Kalle Sievänen (FIN)	526
17	Yoshihide Ueda (JPN)	526
18	Alberto Martijena (ARG)	526
19	Ignacio Cruzat (CHI)	524
20	Charles des Jammonières (FRA)	522
21	Rigoberto Fontt (CHI)	521
22	Antonio Vita (PER)	519
23	Marcel Lafortune (BEL)	518
24	Hector de Lima Polanco (VEN)	511
25	José Bernal (VEN)	508
26	Rodolfo Flores (MEX)	507
27	Rodney Johnson (AUS)	506
28	Henry Steele (GBR)	503
29	Francisco Otayza (PER)	503
30	Kim Yun-gi (KOR)	463
31	Zafar Ahmed Muhammad (PAK)	460
32	Ricardo Hizon (PHI)	456
33	Joseph Chong (MAL)	438