Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre pistol
Mixed 50 metre pistol at the Games of the XXII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Dynamo Shooting Range | |||||||||
Date | 20 July 1980 | |||||||||
Competitors | 33 from 19 nations | |||||||||
Winning score | 581 WR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics | |
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Rifle | |
50 m rifle three positions | mixed |
50 m rifle prone | mixed |
Pistol | |
50 m pistol | mixed |
25 m rapid fire pistol | mixed |
Shotgun | |
Trap | mixed |
Skeet | mixed |
Running target | |
50 m running target | mixed |
The mixed (or "open")
Background
This was the 15th 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 nominally open to women from 1968 to 1980, although very few women participated these years. A separate women's event would be introduced in 1984.[5] 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.[6][1]
Three of the top 10 shooters from the 1976 Games returned: gold medalist Uwe Potteck of East Germany, silver medalist (and 1968 bronze medalist and 1972 fifth-place finisher) Harald Vollmar of East Germany, and fifth-place finisher (and 1972 gold medalist) Ragnar Skanåker of Sweden. Moritz Minder of Switzerland was the reigning (1978) world champion and co-world record holder, but was not competing in Moscow due to the American-led boycott.[1] Skanåker had been the runner-up. Reigning European champion and co-world record holder Paavo Palokangas was also present in Moscow.
Ireland, Laos, North Korea, and Zimbabwe each made their debut in the event. Sweden made its 13th appearance, matching the boycotting United States for most of any nation.
Melentyev 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.[1][7]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Moritz Minder (SUI) Paavo Palokangas (FIN) |
577 | Lvov,Ukraine |
1978 1979 |
[1] |
Olympic record | Uwe Potteck (GDR) | 573 | Montreal, Canada | 18 July 1976 | [2] |
Schedule
Date | Time | Round |
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Sunday, 20 July 1980 | 9:00 | Final |
Results
Rank | Shooter | Nation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total | Notes |
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Aleksandr Melentyev |
Soviet Union | 95 | 96 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 96 | 581 | WR | |
Harald Vollmar | East Germany | 93 | 93 | 93 | 97 | 98 | 94 | 568 | ||
Lyubcho Dyakov | Bulgaria | 96 | 92 | 93 | 92 | 95 | 97 | 565 | ||
4 | So Gil-San |
North Korea | 91 | 97 | 94 | 93 | 93 | 97 | 565 | |
5 | Seppo Saarenpää | Finland | 91 | 98 | 96 | 94 | 95 | 91 | 565 | |
6 | Sergei Pyzhianov | Soviet Union | 91 | 96 | 92 | 96 | 94 | 95 | 564 | |
7 | Ragnar Skanåker | Sweden | 90 | 94 | 94 | 95 | 93 | 97 | 563 | |
8 | Paavo Palokangas | Finland | 91 | 94 | 93 | 96 | 94 | 93 | 561 | |
9 | Sylvio Carvalho | Brazil | 91 | 94 | 89 | 95 | 93 | 96 | 558 | |
10 | Sławomir Romanowski | Poland | 89 | 96 | 82 | 92 | 95 | 94 | 558 | |
11 | Lyuben Popov | Bulgaria | 91 | 92 | 94 | 95 | 92 | 94 | 558 | |
Enrico Rabbachin | Italy | 88 | 92 | 95 | 95 | 97 | 91 | 558 | ||
13 | Erwin Matelski | Poland | 92 | 95 | 90 | 92 | 93 | 95 | 557 | |
Lajos Nagy | Hungary | 91 | 93 | 94 | 94 | 91 | 94 | 557 | ||
Ivan Némethy | Czechoslovakia | 96 | 92 | 95 | 90 | 93 | 91 | 557 | ||
16 | Uwe Potteck | East Germany | 91 | 91 | 94 | 93 | 93 | 94 | 556 | |
17 | Daniel Iuga |
Romania | 95 | 90 | 92 | 91 | 95 | 92 | 555 | |
18 | Carlos Hora | Peru | 92 | 93 | 91 | 94 | 90 | 91 | 551 | |
Kim Ji-jong | North Korea | 88 | 93 | 90 | 93 | 96 | 91 | 551 | ||
20 | Phan Huy Khảng | Vietnam | 91 | 89 | 93 | 93 | 93 | 91 | 550 | |
21 | Rudolf Seres | Hungary | 93 | 95 | 88 | 90 | 90 | 93 | 549 | |
22 | Ngô Hữu Kính | Vietnam | 91 | 91 | 90 | 94 | 93 | 89 | 548 | |
23 | Staffan Oscarsson | Sweden | 89 | 87 | 93 | 96 | 93 | 89 | 547 | |
24 | Roberto Ferraris | Italy | 96 | 87 | 91 | 93 | 95 | 84 | 546 | |
25 | Ken Stanford | Ireland | 87 | 89 | 87 | 95 | 95 | 92 | 545 | |
26 | Mariano Lara | Costa Rica | 93 | 89 | 93 | 88 | 91 | 88 | 542 | |
27 | Ian Redmond | Zimbabwe | 83 | 92 | 91 | 85 | 89 | 87 | 527 | |
28 | Maureen Reichert | Zimbabwe | 88 | 86 | 81 | 90 | 90 | 89 | 524 | |
29 | Rodrigo Ruiz | Costa Rica | 84 | 89 | 84 | 84 | 79 | 92 | 512 | |
30 | Gianfranco Giardi | San Marino | 89 | 85 | 83 | 86 | 84 | 82 | 509 | |
31 | Eliseo Paolini | San Marino | 87 | 81 | 89 | 90 | 84 | 76 | 507 | |
32 | Souvanny Souksavath | Laos | 84 | 88 | 86 | 80 | 88 | 76 | 502 | |
33 | Syseuy | Laos | 80 | 81 | 79 | 85 | 81 | 75 | 481 |
References
- ^ a b c d "Free Pistol, 50 Metres, Open". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- ^ "Moscow 1980 Shooting - Olympic Results by Discipline".
- ^ "IOC - International Olympic Committee | Olympics.com".
- ^ "Shooting at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Mixed Free Pistol, 50 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "Olympedia – Shooting".
- ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- ^ Official Report, vol. 3, p. 533.