Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol


The Men's 50 metre pistol event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 10 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.
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 20 shots. These shots scored in increments of.1, with a maximum score of 10.9.

Records

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

Qualification round

Final