Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol

Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Shooting Range Hall
Date	August 15, 2008 August 16, 2008
Competitors	19 from 14 nations
Winning score	780.2 (OR)
Medalists
Oleksandr Petriv  Ukraine Ralf Schumann  Germany Christian Reitz  Germany

Shooting at the 2008 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	men	women
Double trap	men
Skeet	men	women

The Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place between August 15 and 16 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a pistol at 25 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10. Targets were presented in series of 5. Each shooter was presented with 12 series, and had a sharply limited time to complete each. Four of the series had to be completed in 8 seconds apiece, four more within 6 seconds, and four within 4 seconds.

The top 6 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. They were presented in four series of 5 shots each, with each series being limited to 4 seconds to make all five shots. The total score from all 80 shots was used to determine final ranking.

After rule changes, new Olympic records were established by Keith Sanderson (qualification round) and Oleksandr Petriv (final), while Ralf Schumann won his fifth Olympic medal in the event.

Records

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

Qualification records
World record	Alexei Klimov (RUS)  Christian Reitz (GER)	591	Granada, Spain Milan, Italy	6 October 2006 28 May 2008
Olympic record	ISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005	–	–	–

Final records
World record	Christian Reitz (GER)	794.0 (591+203.0)	Milan, Italy	28 May 2008
Olympic record	ISSF Rule changed on 01.01.2005	–	–	–

Qualification round

The first stage began at 13:00 China Standard Time (UTC+8) on Friday. The second stage began at 09:00 on Saturday.

Rank	Athlete	Country	8	6	4	ST1	8	6	4	ST2	Total	Notes
1	Keith Sanderson	United States	97	98	94	289	99	99	96	294	583	Q OR
2	Leonid Yekimov	Russia	99	95	97	291	99	96	95	290	581	Q
3	Roman Bondaruk	Ukraine	96	94	96	286	100	97	97	294	580	Q
4	Oleksandr Petriv	Ukraine	96	99	94	289	98	96	97	291	580	Q
5	Ralf Schumann	Germany	97	99	92	288	99	97	95	291	579	Q
6	Christian Reitz	Germany	97	100	92	289	99	97	94	290	579	Q
7	Leuris Pupo	Cuba	96	97	95	288	97	96	97	290	578
8	Aleksey Klimov	Russia	99	99	90	288	95	96	98	289	577
9	Iulian Raicea	Romania	99	95	93	287	99	95	95	289	576
10	Liu Zhongsheng	China	96	95	90	281	98	96	97	291	572	−2p
11	Júlio Almeida	Brazil	98	96	90	284	98	100	86	284	568
12	Ghenadie Lisoconi	Moldova	95	96	91	282	93	95	97	285	567
13	Afanasijs Kuzmins	Latvia	95	92	90	277	98	96	94	288	565
14	Martin Podhráský	Czech Republic	92	98	86	276	99	98	92	289	565
15	Hasli Izwan Amir Hasan	Malaysia	96	95	88	279	95	95	85	285	564
16	Martin Strnad	Czech Republic	96	94	77	267	99	99	97	295	562
17	Bruce Quick	Australia	94	97	89	280	95	95	90	280	560
18	Wong Fai	Hong Kong	96	97	89	282	98	92	86	276	558
	Zhang Penghui	China	96	100	92	288						DQ

−2p 2 points deducted (45° rule violation) – DQ Disqualified (repeated 45° rule violation) – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final – ST1 Stage 1 – ST2 Stage 2

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	Final	Total	Notes
	Oleksandr Petriv (UKR)	580	50.8	50.2	48.4	50.8	200.2	780.2	OR
	Ralf Schumann (GER)	579	49.2	49.5	50.2	51.6	200.5	779.5
	Christian Reitz (GER)	579	50.8	49.1	52.4	48.0	200.3	779.3
4	Leonid Yekimov (RUS)	581	46.6	50.9	51.0	48.7	197.2	778.2
5	Keith Sanderson (USA)	583	48.6	48.0	47.5	49.5	193.6	776.6
6	Roman Bondaruk (UKR)	580	49.4	49.6	49.0	46.7	194.7	774.7

OR Olympic record