Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre pistol

50 metre free pistol at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Ragnar Skanåker (2013)
Venue	Schießanlage
Date	August 27, 1972
Competitors	59 from 36 nations
Winning score	567 OR
Medalists
Ragnar Skanåker  Sweden Daniel Iuga  Romania Rudolf Dollinger  Austria

The mixed (or "open") ISSF 50 meter pistol was a competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics. It was held on 27 August 1972 at Schießanlage in Munich. There were 59 competitors from 36 nations. Nations had been limited to two shooters each since the 1952 Games.

The defending champion was Grigory Kosykh of the Soviet Union, who also held the world record with 572. He would not be a factor at these Games as he struggled and finished a distant eighth. The gold medal was won by Ragnar Skanåker who brought Sweden its first shooting gold medal in 36 years. Skanåker became a common sight at Olympic Games as he competed continuously through 1996, appearing in seven Olympics. Daniel Iuga earned Romania's first medal in the event with his silver, while Rudolf Dollinger earned Austria's first with his bronze.

Background

This was the 13th appearance of the ISSF 50 meter pistol event. The event was held at every Summer Olympics from 1896 to 1920 (except 1904, when no shooting events were held) and from 1936 to 2016; it was open to women from 1968 to 1980. 1896 and 1908 were the only Games in which the distance was not 50 metres; the former used 30 metres and the latter 50 yards.

Four of the top 10 shooters from the 1968 Games returned: gold medalist Grigory Kosykh of the Soviet Union, silver medalist Heinz Mertel of West Germany, bronze medalist Harald Vollmar of East Germany, and tenth-place finisher Vladimir Stolypin of the Soviet Union. Stolypin had been the 1962 and 1966 world champion, but Vollmar was the champion in 1970. Dencho Denev of Bulgaria and Hynek Hromada of Czechoslovakia had finished second and third, respectively, to both Stolypin in 1966 and Vollmar in 1970; they were competing at the Olympics again seeking better results than in 1968, when neither made the top 10.

Albania, Belize (then British Honduras), Bolivia, and the Virgin Islands each made their debut in the event. The United States made its 12th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the 1900 event.

Skanåker used a TsKIB SOO MЦ55.

Competition format

Each shooter fired 60 shots, in 6 series of 10 shots each, at a distance of 50 metres. The target was round, 50 centimetres in diameter, with 10 scoring rings. Scoring for each shot was up to 10 points, in increments of 1 point. The maximum score possible was 600 points. Any pistol was permitted.

Ties were broken by the best score in the sixth series, if still tied best score in fifth series, this continues until the tie is broken.

Records

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

World record	Grigory Kosykh (URS)	572	Plzeň, Czechoslovakia	1969	[1]
Olympic record	Grigory Kosykh (URS)  Heinz Mertel (FRG)	562	Mexico City, Mexico	18 October 1968	[2]

Ragnar Skanåker beat the Olympic record by five points. Daniel Iuga, in second place, matched the old record.

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
Sunday, 27 August 1972	9:00	Final

Results

Rank	Shooter	Nation	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Notes
	Ragnar Skanåker	Sweden	98	92	95	94	97	91	567	OR
	Daniel Iuga	Romania	93	92	92	95	96	94	562
	Rudolf Dollinger	Austria	91	96	92	94	95	92	560
4	Rajmund Stachurski	Poland	91	88	99	95	92	94	559
5	Harald Vollmar	East Germany	93	93	94	93	93	92	558
6	Hynek Hromada	Czechoslovakia	90	94	92	95	92	93	556
7	Kornél Marosvári	Hungary	90	90	93	92	94	96	555
8	Grigory Kosykh	Soviet Union	92	93	94	93	93	90	555
9	Gérard Denecheau	France	92	92	90	95	92	93	554
10	Kjell Jacobsson	Sweden	92	91	93	94	92	92	554
11	Dencho Denev	Bulgaria	91	88	93	94	97	91	554
12	Miroslav Štefan	Czechoslovakia	91	93	95	93	94	88	554
13	John Rødseth	Norway	91	93	94	93	92	90	553
14	Frank Wyatt	Great Britain	90	93	89	95	90	95	552
15	Heinrich Fretwurst	West Germany	90	92	94	93	91	91	551
16	Heinz Mertel	West Germany	92	91	90	91	92	94	550
17	Vladimir Stolypin	Soviet Union	88	94	88	93	95	92	550
18	Jean Faggion	France	83	95	90	96	95	90	549
19	Seppo Irjala	Finland	95	92	89	93	90	89	548
20	Pál Katkó	Hungary	89	94	90	97	89	89	548
21	Hubert Garschall	Austria	91	91	93	95	90	88	548
22	Shigetoshi Tashiro	Japan	89	92	90	93	92	90	546
23	Zbigniew Fedyczak	Poland	90	90	95	92	90	89	546
24	Fatos Pilkati	Albania	93	92	92	93	87	89	546
25	Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	Japan	94	90	87	91	92	91	545
26	Immo Huhtinen	Finland	93	89	93	87	94	89	545
27	Gilberto Fernández	Colombia	90	88	93	86	91	96	544
28	Jimmie Dorsey	United States	94	87	89	88	92	94	544
29	Ivan Mandov	Bulgaria	89	90	96	92	85	82	544
30	Fernando Miranda	Puerto Rico	89	91	91	93	91	88	543
31	Harry Cullum	Great Britain	87	93	87	90	93	92	542
32	Edward Jans	Canada	94	90	91	86	92	89	542
33	Petar Bajić	Yugoslavia	85	87	93	96	91	89	541
34	Hershel Anderson	United States	91	92	88	91	90	88	540
35	Tserenjavyn Ölziibayar	Mongolia	89	93	87	89	91	90	539
36	Bertino de Souza	Brazil	86	93	89	90	92	89	539
37	Sutham Aswanit	Thailand	87	93	89	91	90	89	539
38	Dimitrios Kotronis	Greece	93	86	97	84	92	87	539
39	Tüdeviin Myagmarjav	Mongolia	88	90	89	88	90	92	537
40	Somsak Chaiyarate	Thailand	89	89	89	96	87	87	537
41	Severino Requejo	Spain	88	93	86	85	89	95	536
42	Juventino Sánchez	Mexico	91	92	90	87	88	88	536
43	Jorge Henao	Colombia	88	83	93	89	91	91	535
44	Santiago Trompeta	Cuba	93	87	89	91	87	88	535
45	Jules Sobrian	Canada	91	87	91	89	88	88	534
46	Durval Guimarães	Brazil	90	87	92	88	93	84	534
47	Arturo Macapagal	Philippines	88	88	90	88	88	91	533
48	Santiago Machuca	Puerto Rico	91	88	91	84	92	87	533
49	Hồ Minh Thu	Vietnam	80	89	93	86	83	93	524
50	Teodoro Kalaw	Philippines	82	83	92	90	88	89	524
51	Afërdita Tusha	Albania	85	94	87	83	87	86	522
52	André Zoltan	Belgium	88	85	85	91	87	85	521
53	Jaime Sánchez	Bolivia	84	91	89	88	79	83	514
54	John Harun	Kenya	86	83	85	90	85	83	512
55	André Antunes	Portugal	83	85	90	85	81	86	510
56	Hương Hoàng Thi	Vietnam	80	77	80	85	84	81	487
57	José Álvarez	Virgin Islands	76	81	85	85	76	83	486
58	Abdul Rahman Omar	Kenya	73	84	79	78	73	87	474
59	Owen Phillips	British Honduras	49	70	57	61	73	66	376
—	Armando Rigual	Cuba	DNS
	Gaute Flesland	Norway	DNS
	Gi Man Sonu	North Korea	DNS
	Lucian Giușcă	Romania	DNS
	Zakai Hakki	Syria	DNS

External links

• Sports reference
• Official report pg. 226