Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Men's 50 metre pistol at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Mollet del Vallès
Competitors	44 from 29 nations
Winning score	658
Medalists
Kanstantsin Lukashyk   Unified Team   Wang Yifu   China   Ragnar Skanåker   Sweden

Shooting at the 1992 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		open
Skeet		open
Running target
10 m running target		men

Men's 50 metre pistol (then known as free pistol) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Kanstantsin Lukashyk, a 16-year-old Belarusian, unexpectedly had the pre-final lead. The final became severely interrupted by a pistol malfunction, originally assumed to be a technical fault in the electronic target system, for Tanyu Kiryakov who was second but had to leave the competition short of finishing his ten shots. Lukashyk needed a nine for his last shot, and it broke only seconds before the 75-second deadline, but was a nine indeed, and so the sensation was a fact. Wang Yifu won the silver medal and Ragnar Skanåker, 42 years older than the gold medalist, came third, winning his fourth Olympic medal in this event.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Kanstantsin Lukashyk	Unified Team	567	Q
2	Tanyu Kiryakov	Bulgaria	567	Q
3	Darius Young	United States	566	Q
4	Ragnar Skanåker	Sweden	566	Q
5	Wang Yifu	China	565	Q
6	Xu Haifeng	China	565	Q
7	István Ágh	Hungary	561	Q
8	Sorin Babii	Romania	561	Q
9	Jerzy Pietrzak	Poland	560
10	Stein-Olav Fiskebeck	Norway	559
11	Kim Seon-il	South Korea	558
11	Spas Koprinkov	Bulgaria	558
11	Sakari Paasonen	Finland	558
11	Tu Tai-hsing	Chinese Taipei	558
15	Benny Östlund	Sweden	557
16	Sergei Pyzhianov	Unified Team	556
16	Tarek Zaki Riad	Egypt	556
16	So Gil-san	North Korea	556
19	Ben Amonette	United States	555
20	Gernot Eder	Germany	554
20	Fumihisa Semizuki	Japan	554
22	Roberto Di Donna	Italy	553
22	Stanislav Jirkal	Czechoslovakia	553
22	Bernardo Tobar Ante	Colombia	553
25	Philippe Cola	France	552
26	Alberto Areces Fernandez	Spain	551
26	Bengt Sandstrom	Australia	551
28	Hassan Hassan	Iraq	550
28	Ryu Myong-hyon	North Korea	550
30	Phillip Adams	Australia	549
31	Timo Naveri	Finland	548
31	Zoltán Papanitz	Hungary	548
33	Hans-Jürgen Bauer-Neumaier	Germany	547
33	Park Jong-shin	South Korea	547
35	Wilson Scheidemantel	Brazil	545
36	Franck Dumoulin	France	544
37	Dimitrios Baltas	Greece	543
37	Rodney Michael Colwell	Canada	543
37	Mamoru Inagaki	Japan	543
37	Francisco Sanz Cancio	Spain	543
37	Greg Yelavich	New Zealand	543
42	Dario Palazzani	Italy	538
43	Gilbert King-hong U	Hong Kong	532
44	Shuaib Adam	Kenya	484

Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
01 !	Kanstantsin Lukashyk (EUN)	567	91	658
02 !	Wang Yifu (CHN)	565	92	657
03 !	Ragnar Skanåker (SWE)	566	91	657
4	Darius Young (USA)	566	89	655
5	Sorin Babii (ROU)	561	92	653
6	István Ágh (HUN)	561	91	652
7	Xu Haifeng (CHN)	565	87	652
8	Tanyu Kiryakov (BUL)	567	51	618	DNF

DNF Did not finish

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