Competitors 38 from 27 nations Date 5 August 2012 | Winning score 662.0 Venue Royal Artillery Barracks | |
Location Royal Artillery Barracks, London, United Kingdom | ||
The Men's 50 metre pistol event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 5 August 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks.
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.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
References
Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA