Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Men's 50 metre pistol at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Shooting Range Hall
Date	August 12, 2008
Competitors	45 from 32 nations
Winning score	660.4
Medalists
Jin Jong-oh 23x15px South Korea Tan Zongliang  China Vladimir Isakov  Russia

Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions		men		women
50 m rifle prone		men
10 m air rifle		men		women
Pistol
50 m pistol		men
25 m pistol				women
25 m rapid fire pistol		men
10 m air pistol		men		women
Shotgun
Trap		men		women
Double trap		men
Skeet		men		women

The Men's 50 metre pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 12 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall.

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.

Kim Jong-su of North Korea originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified after he tested positive for propranolol.

Records

The existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record	Aleksandr Melentiev (URS)	581	Moscow, Soviet Union	20 July 1980
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	Tan Zongliang	China	96	94	93	96	90	96	565	Q
	Kim Jong-su	North Korea	94	92	95	94	94	94	563	DQ
3	Oleg Omelchuk	Ukraine	94	96	94	93	93	93	563	Q
4	Pavol Kopp	Slovakia	99	92	89	93	98	92	563	Q
5	Vladimir Isakov	Russia	95	93	96	94	93	92	563	Q
6	Jin Jong-oh	23x15px South Korea	91	94	94	97	97	90	563	Q
7	Tanyu Kiryakov	Bulgaria	90	93	95	94	95	95	562	Q
8	Damir Mikec	Serbia	92	93	94	95	95	90	559	Q
9	Tomoyuki Matsuda	Japan	92	94	91	94	93	94	558
10	Susumu Kobayashi	Japan	91	95	94	92	93	93	558
11	Kanstantsin Lukashyk	Belarus	96	95	92	92	92	91	558
12	Yury Dauhapolau	Belarus	93	94	95	95	93	88	558
13	Hans-Jörg Meyer	Germany	93	91	88	95	96	94	557
14	Daryl Szarenski	United States	91	94	88	94	92	96	555
15	Norayr Bakhtamyan	Armenia	93	91	92	93	93	93	555
16	Lin Zhongzai	China	92	92	94	93	92	92	555
17	Rashid Yunusmetov	Kazakhstan	91	96	92	90	96	90	555
18	Júlio Almeida	Brazil	96	91	94	93	89	91	554
19	Francesco Bruno	Italy	92	95	95	92	92	88	554
20	Ivan Rybovalov	Ukraine	89	91	91	96	91	95	553
21	Jason Turner	United States	91	93	92	93	90	94	553
22	Kai Jahnsson	Finland	92	94	93	90	92	92	553
23	Yusuf Dikeç	Turkey	94	94	92	93	90	89	552
24	Mikhail Nestruyev	Russia	98	88	93	90	95	88	552
25	Walter Lapeyre	France	94	94	93	96	87	88	552
26	Lee Dae-myung	23x15px South Korea	90	90	90	91	96	94	551
27	Ryu Myong-yon	North Korea	87	93	92	93	92	94	551
28	Vigilio Fait	Italy	92	90	89	91	96	93	551
29	Florian Schmidt	Germany	93	91	91	89	91	94	549
30	Jakkrit Panichpatikum	Thailand	91	93	88	93	91	93	549
31	Dilshod Mukhtarov	Uzbekistan	93	92	90	90	93	91	549
32	Samy Abdel Razek	Egypt	91	92	97	87	91	91	549
33	João Costa	Portugal	93	95	91	95	88	87	549
34	Franck Dumoulin	France	90	89	96	94	88	91	548
35	David Moore	Australia	89	85	92	92	95	93	546
36	Edirisinghe Senanayake	Sri Lanka	89	93	88	88	94	93	545
37	Martin Tenk	Czech Republic	90	91	90	91	93	89	544
38	Nguyễn Mạnh Tường	Vietnam	92	89	89	91	93	89	543
39	Wojciech Knapik	Poland	95	86	95	91	89	87	543
40	Christoph Schmid	Switzerland	94	86	91	91	92	88	542
41	Daniel Repacholi	Australia	89	93	89	81	94	94	540
42	Samaresh Jung	India	88	92	91	86	90	93	540
43	Sergey Babikov	Tajikistan	90	83	93	92	90	92	540
44	Stênio Yamamoto	Brazil	91	89	86	92	91	89	538
45	Nikola Šaranović	Montenegro	89	88	87	90	93	88	535

DQ Disqualified – Q Qualified for final

^ 1: Kim was second in the original official result list for the qualification round, but was disqualified after the final had taken place. In the final version of the document, Kim's result is removed and the second place is empty, indicating that no extra shooter had been allowed into the final.

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total	Shoot-off	Notes
	22x20px Jin Jong-oh (KOR)	563	10.3	10.5	9.8	8.5	10.4	10.3	9.7	9.9	9.8	8.2	97.4	660.4
	Tan Zongliang (CHN)	565	7.9	9.2	10.2	8.1	10.6	9.8	10.2	9.6	9.7	9.2	94.5	659.5
	Vladimir Isakov (RUS)	563	8.7	8.4	9.8	9.7	10.5	9.5	10.3	9.5	9.1	10.4	95.9	658.9	9.1
4	Oleg Omelchuk (UKR)	563	8.2	10.5	10.1	10.5	9.3	10.1	9.6	8.3	10.3	9.0	95.9	658.9	6.5
5	Pavol Kopp (SVK)	563	9.4	10.3	10.0	10.0	8.7	8.3	10.2	8.7	10.0	9.0	94.6	657.6
6	Tanyu Kiryakov (BUL)	562	9.3	9.1	9.8	10.4	9.8	10.7	8.7	9.3	8.9	8.8	94.8	656.8
7	Damir Mikec (SRB)	559	9.9	10.6	8.7	9.9	8.7	9.8	10.5	8.2	10.2	10.3	96.8	655.8
	Kim Jong-su (PRK)	563	9.3	10.0	9.0	9.0	10.7	10.2	9.4	9.2	9.9	10.5	97.2	660.2		DQ

DQ Disqualified