Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol


The Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place between August 15 and 16 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 25 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. Targets were presented in series of 5. Each shooter was presented with 12 series, and had a sharply limited time to complete each. Four of the series had to be completed in 8 seconds apiece, four more within 6 seconds, and four within 4 seconds.
The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 20 shots. These shots scored in increments of.1, with a maximum score of 10.9. They were presented in four series of 5 shots each, with each series being limited to 4 seconds to make all five shots. The total score from all 80 shots was used to determine final ranking.
After rule changes, new Olympic records were established by Keith Sanderson and Oleksandr Petriv, while Ralf Schumann won his fifth Olympic medal in the event.

Records

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

Qualification round

The first stage began at 13:00 China Standard Time on Friday. The second stage began at 09:00 on Saturday.
RankAthleteCountry864ST1864ST2TotalNotes
1Keith Sanderson979894289999996294583Q OR
2Leonid Yekimov999597291999695290581Q
3Roman Bondaruk9694962861009797294580Q
4Oleksandr Petriv969994289989697291580Q
5Ralf Schumann979992288999795291579Q
6Christian Reitz9710092289999794290579Q
7Leuris Pupo969795288979697290578
8Aleksey Klimov999990288959698289577
9Iulian Raicea999593287999595289576
10Liu Zhongsheng969590281989697291572−2p
11Júlio Almeida9896902849810086284568
12Ghenadie Lisoconi959691282939597285567
13Afanasijs Kuzmins959290277989694288565
14Martin Podhráský929886276999892289565
15Hasli Izwan Amir Hasan969588279959585285564
16Martin Strnad969477267999997295562
17Bruce Quick949789280959590280560
18Wong Fai969789282989286276558
Zhang Penghui9610092288DQ

−2p 2 points deducted – DQ Disqualified – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final – ST1 Stage 1 – ST2 Stage 2

Final

OR Olympic record