Competitors 45 from 32 nations Date 12 August 2008 | Winning score 660.4 | |
Location Beijing Shooting Range Hall, Beijing, China Venue Beijing Shooting Range Hall | ||
The Men's 50 metre pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 12 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall.
Contents
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 round
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
DQ Disqualified