Shooting at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Men's 50 metre pistol at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Wannsee, Berlin, Germany
Date	6–7 August
Competitors	43 from 19 nations
Medalists
Torsten Ullman   Sweden   Erich Krempel   Germany   Charles des Jammonières   France

Shooting at the 1936 Summer Olympics
25 m rapid fire pistol	men
50 metre pistol	men
50 m rifle, prone	men

The men's 50 metre pistol was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme. It was the sixth appearance of the event. The competition was held on 6 and 7 August 1936 at the shooting ranges at Wannsee. 43 shooters from 19 nations competed.^[1] The previous ban on hairspring trigger is now lifted.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Torsten Ullman (SWE)	Erich Krempel (GER)	Charles des Jammonières (FRA)

Records

These are the standing world and Olympic records prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics.

World Record	547	Torsten Ullman	?	1935
Olympic Record	503	Karl Röderer	Paris (FRA)	1 August 1900

Results

Starting order: On 6 August, the shooters from Argentina, Chile, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, USA, and Germany started. On the following day the shooters of all other countries competed. The competition started on both days at 8 a.m.

Weather: On the first day it was dry with fairly overcast sky. The wind influenced the competition at times during the morning. On the second day it was sunny in the morning and fairly overcast in the afternoon. In general the weather was warmer and there was no wind.

On the first day Erich Krempel set a new Olympic record. But on the second day Torsten Ullman set a new world record. 33 shooters finished with a better score than the standing Olympic record prior the Games.

Place	Shooter	Total	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6
1	Torsten Ullman (SWE)	559	95	92	94	91	92	95
2	Erich Krempel (GER)	544	87	88	91	92	95	91
3	Charles des Jammonières (FRA)	540	91	92	86	91	90	90
4	Marcel Bonin (FRA)	538	92	90	91	86	89	90
5	Tapio Wartiovaara (FIN)	537	95	86	86	88	93	89
6	Elliott Jones (USA)	536	92	90	83	92	90	89
7	Georgios Stathis (GRE)	532	90	89	92	89	87	85
8	Aatto Nuora (FIN)	532	86	89	90	86	92	89
9	Sándor Tölgyesi (HUN)	528	87	88	88	90	90	85
10	Bertalan Zsótér (HUN)	525	87	85	88	84	92	89
11	Mauritz Amundsen (NOR)	525	89	87	92	86	84	87
12	Paul Wehner (GER)	525	90	84	88	87	88	88
13	Marcel Lafortune (BEL)	524	83	87	89	85	85	95
14	Roberto Müller (CHI)	521	88	89	83	85	83	93
15	Jaakko Rintanen (FIN)	520	89	85	83	88	89	86
16	Carlos Lalanne (CHI)	520	86	87	89	86	87	85
17	William Riedell (USA)	519	82	87	85	89	84	92
18	Juan Rostagno (ARG)	519	90	85	88	80	89	87
19	Emil Martin (GER)	519	84	86	91	81	88	89
20	René Koch (FRA)	519	82	89	88	90	80	90
21	Stefano Margotti (ITA)	518	84	84	82	93	88	87
22	Julius Lehrmann (DEN)	518	81	86	91	88	84	88
23	Václav Krecl (TCH)	518	91	82	89	82	82	92
24	Helge Meuller (SWE)	517	85	85	82	88	87	90
25	Harvey Dias Villela (BRA)	515	82	84	87	87	85	90
26	Gustaf Bergström (SWE)	514	85	88	77	88	88	88
27	Miguel Lonegro (ARG)	513	87	79	87	85	90	85
28	Christen Møller (DEN)	513	84	90	82	85	87	85
29	Enrique Ojeda (CHI)	512	86	88	80	89	85	84
30	Martin Gison (PHI)	511	80	82	86	92	82	89
31	Paul Van Asbroeck (BEL)	510	90	86	87	71	89	87
32	Giancarlo Boriani (ITA)	506	80	85	86	90	79	86
33	Ralph Marshall (USA)	505	91	87	84	82	83	78
34	Jan Koller (TCH)	503	84	82	87	81	86	83
35	Georgios Kontogiannis (GRE)	502	81	85	85	86	83	82
36	Ugo Pistolesi (ITA)	502	86	80	88	80	87	81
37	Otoniel Gonzaga (PHI)	501	84	79	84	84	83	87
38	Herman Schultz (MON)	496	82	79	85	82	87	81
39	François Lafortune (BEL)	495	75	78	90	89	84	79
40	Moysés Cardoso (POR)	490	79	80	84	82	86	79
41	Louis Briano (MON)	467	73	72	79	87	80	76
42	Vasile Crişan (ROU)	446	73	65	72	71	80	85
43	Victor Bonafède (MON)	433	61	79	74	79	68	72

If the scores were level, the place was established according to position of hits on target.

References

1. "Shooting at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's Free Pistol, 50 metres". Sports Reference. Retrieved 18 January 2015.

External links

• Official Report Part II
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 14 December 2007.