Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol

Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date	September 23, 1988
Competitors	32 from 23 nations
Winning score	698 (OR)
Medalists
Afanasijs Kuzmins   Soviet Union   Ralf Schumann   East Germany   Zoltán Kovács   Hungary

Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions		men		women
50 m rifle prone		men
10 m air rifle		men		women
Pistol
50 m pistol		men
25 m pistol				women
25 m rapid fire pistol		men
10 m air pistol		men		women
Shotgun
Trap		mixed
Skeet		mixed
Running target
50 m running target		men

Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. The last Olympic competition on the non-circular target, and the first to feature final shooting, it was won by Afanasijs Kuzmins after a perfect 300 in the first stage, 298 in the second, and two perfect 50 series in the final, thus not allowing Ralf Schumann and John McNally to eliminate his one-point pre-final lead. Schumann comfortably won the silver while McNally fell back during the final with a 47 and a 46, finishing seventh and giving way to a third-place tie between Zoltán Kovács and Alberto Sevieri, resolved in Kovács's favour on grounds of higher final score.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1st	2nd	Total	Notes
1	Afanasijs Kuzmins	Soviet Union	300	298	598	Q OR
2	John McNally	United States	298	299	597	Q
3	Ralf Schumann	East Germany	298	299	597	Q
4	Alberto Sevieri	Italy	296	300	596	Q
5	Adam Kaczmarek	Poland	297	298	595	Q
6	Zoltán Kovács	Hungary	296	298	594	Q
7	Bernardo Tovar	Colombia	296	297	593	Q
8	Dirk Köhler	West Germany	294	297	591	Q (6th: 98; 5th: 100)
9	László Balogh	Hungary	295	296	591	(6th: 98; 5th: 98)
9	Yang Chung-yul	South Korea	295	296	591	(6th: 98; 5th: 98)
11	Krzysztof Kucharczyk	Poland	296	295	591	(6th: 95)
11	Meng Gang	China	297	294	591	(6th: 95)
13	Rojelio Arredondo	United States	296	294	590
13	Nguyễn Quốc Cường	Vietnam	297	293	590
13	Hans Schneider	Switzerland	297	293	590
16	Anton Küchler	Switzerland	294	294	589
16	Li Zhongqi	China	295	294	589
18	Corneliu Ion	Romania	294	294	588
18	Roland Müller	East Germany	294	294	588
18	Juan Segui	Spain	294	294	588
21	Hideo Nonaka	Japan	291	296	587
21	Undralbatiin Lkhagvaa	Mongolia	296	291	587
21	Vladimir Vokhmianin	Soviet Union	293	294	587
24	Adrian Breton	Great Britain	292	294	586
24	Delival Nobre	Brazil	295	291	586
26	Alfredo Gonzalez	Colombia	289	296	585
26	Christian Kezel	France	289	296	585
26	Bretislav Putna	Czechoslovakia	291	294	585
29	Mark Howkins	Canada	293	291	584
29	Hermann Sailer	Austria	292	292	584
31	Jouni Vainio	Finland	280	298	578
32	Lim Jang-soo	South Korea	288	287	575

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	Final	Total	Notes
01 !	Afanasijs Kuzmins (URS)	598	50	50	100	698	OR
02 !	Ralf Schumann (GDR)	597	49	50	99	696
03 !	Zoltán Kovács (HUN)	594	50	49	99	693
4	Alberto Sevieri (ITA)	596	49	48	97	693
5	Adam Kaczmarek (POL)	595	48	48	96	691
6	Bernardo Tobar (COL)	593	49	48	97	690
7	John McNally (USA)	597	47	46	93	690
8	Dirk Köhler (FRG)	591	49	49	98	689

OR Olympic record

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