ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol

25 meter rapid fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events and is shot with .22 LR pistols. The event has been a part of the Olympic program ever since the beginning in 1896, although its rules changed greatly before World War II, after which they were only slightly changed until the two major revisions of 1989 and 2005. The latter restricted the event to sport pistols, thereby banning .22 Short cartridge (last used in 2004 and replaced by .22 Long Rifle in 2005) as well as encircling grips and low trigger-pull weight. This caused a decline in results, as evidenced by a comparison of the world records under the pre-2005 rules (597) and post-2005 rules (593).

Instead of dropping specialized rapid fire pistols, manufacturers designed new pistols, such as the Walther SSP, conforming to the standard pistol requirements, but optimized for the rapid fire event.

Course of fire

thumb|The centers of the targets are 75 cm apart, and the 10 score zone has a diameter of 10 cm.

thumb|When paper targets (as opposed to [[electronic scoring systems) are used, thin scoring rings are printed on the target. The thick aiming lines are present in both versions.]]

Traditionally, RFP competitions use paper targets that are able to turn 90 degrees to appear to the shooter and then turn back to disappear when the shooting time is up. During the last few decades, these targets have gradually been replaced by electronic devices which use red and green lights to indicate the beginning and the end of the shooting time, and which automatically handle late shots. As these systems are expensive, they are normally only used in international competitions.

A series (or string) consists of five shots fired at one target each within a limited time. The targets stand next to each other at a 25 m distance from the shooter. As with all ISSF pistol disciplines, all firing must be done with one unsupported hand. When the targets appear or when the green light comes on, the competitor must raise his arm from a 45-degree angle starting position and fire his five shots. If a shot is too late, it will score as a miss.

There are three different time limits for the series: 8 seconds, 6 seconds, and 4 seconds. A stage consists of two series of each type, and a full course of fire comprises two such stages, or a total of 60 shots. Since the targets are divided into concentric score zones with 10 being the most central part, the total maximum score is 600.

In major competitions, the top six shooters qualify for a final round of four additional 4-second series, with a shot scoring at or above 9.7 being counted as a hit, or a miss otherwise. To score 9.7 or above, the shot must be within a circle of diameter 124 mm (4.88 inches). The results of the qualification round and the final are added together, and any ties are broken by firing an additional 4-second series.

World Championships, Men

{| class="wikitable"

! Year

! Place

! style="background:gold" width="210" | Gold

! style="background:silver" width="210" | Silver

! style="background:#cc9966" width="210" | Bronze

|1933

| Granada

|1935

| Rome

|1937

| Helsinki

|1939

| Luzern

|1947

| Stockholm

|1949

| Buenos Aires

|1952

| Oslo

|1954

| Caracas

|1958

| Moscow

|1962

| Cairo

|1966

| Wiesbaden

|1970

| Phoenix

|1974

| Thun

|1978

| Seoul

|1982

| Caracas

|1986

| Suhl

|1990

| Moscow

|1994

| Milan

|1998

| Barcelona

|2002

| Lahti

|2006

| Zagreb

|2010

| Munich

|2014

| Granada

|2018

| Changwon

|2022

| New Administrative Capital

|2023

| Baku

World Championships, Men's Team

{| class="wikitable"

! Year

! Place

! style="background:gold" width="210" | Gold

! style="background:silver" width="210" | Silver

! style="background:#cc9966" width="210" | Bronze

|1937

| Helsinki

| Finland Vilho Elo Erik Ljungqvist Arvo Odenvall Jaakko Rintanen Sulo Cederström

| Lithuania Pranas Giedrimas Kazys Sruoga Antanas Jelenskas Antanas Karčiauskas Antanas Mamžeika

| Germany Fritz Bucherer Hans Funck Walter Hartwig Paul Jasper Cornelius van Oyen

|1939

| Luzern

| Hungary Laszlo Badinszky Lajos Borzsonyi Dr. Ede Domby Károly Takács Laszlo Vadnay

| Lithuania Pranas Giedrimas Vladas Nakutis Antanas Mamžeika Jonas Miliauskas Antanas Jelenskas

| Germany Fritz Bucherer Ludwig Leupold Walter L. Cornelius van Oyen Zindel M.

|1947

| Stockholm

| Italy Ferdinando Bernini Bertoni G. Linari F. Mazzavillani B.

| Finland Väinö Heusala Matti Kallio Mauri Kuokka Leonard Ravilo

| Greece Evangelos Chryssafis Angelos Papadimas Constantin Mylonas Georges Vichos

|1949

| Buenos Aires

| Argentina Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente Dionisio Fernández Oscar Rosendo Cervo Enrique Furtado

| Finland Väinö Heusala Matti Kallio Leonard Ravilo Eino Saarnikko

| United States Huelet Benner Hancock W. Logie C. Harry Wendell Reeves

|1952

| Oslo

| United States Huelet Benner Walter Devine William McMillan Harry Wendell Reeves

| Finland Väinö Heusala Veli-Jussi Hölsö Leonard Ravilo Lauri Toikka

| Argentina Cabral G. Oscar Rosendo Cervo Schack E. Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente

|1954

| Caracas

| Soviet Union Evgeni Cherkassov Nikolai Kalinichenko Victor Nasonov Oleg Zhgutov

| United States Huelet Benner William McMillan Thomas Mitchell Philip Clay Roettinger

| Finland Väinö Heusala Pentti Linnosvuo Leonard Ravilo Lauri Toikka

|1958

| Moscow

| Soviet Union Evgeni Cherkassov Aleksandr Kropotin Victor Nasonov Alexander Zabelin

| United States Huelet Benner William McMillan Miller D. Aubrey Smith

| Hungary Aladár Dobsa József Gyönyörű Ferenc Kun Károly Takács

|1962

| Cairo

| Soviet Union Efim Haydurov Igor Bakalov Renart Suleimanov Alexander Zabelin

| James Henderson McNally William McMillan Aubrey Smith Cecil Wallis

| Italy Ugo Amicosante Giovanni Liverzani Roberto Mazzoni Sergio Varetto

|1966

| Wiesbaden

| Soviet Union Igor Bakalov Stanislav Frantsevski Renart Suleimanov Alexander Zabelin

| Romania Virgil Atanasiu Mihai Dumitriu Marcel Roşca Ion Tripşa

| East Germany Gerhard Feller Gerhard Dommrich Christian Duering Lothar Pinnig

|1970

| Phoenix

| Czechoslovakia Ladislav Falta Vladimír Hurt Rudolf Kolinek Lubomír Nácovský

| Romania Virgil Atanasiu Dan Iuga Marcel Roșca Ion Tripșa

| Italy Ugo Amicosante Roberto Ferraris Giovanni Liverzani Silvano Mignardi

|1974

| Thun

| Soviet Union Yuri Alekhin Afanasijs Kuzmins Victor Torshin Mikhail Ziubko

| Czechoslovakia Vladimír Hurt Vladimír Hyka Jan Kotora Lubomír Nácovský

| Romania Virgil Atanasiu Corneliu Ion Marin Stan Marcel Roșca

|1978

| Seoul

| West Germany Werner Beier Alfred Radke Helmut Seeger Heinz Weissenberger

| Italy Rolando Comazzetto Roberto Ferraris Gianfranco Mantelli Alberto Sevieri

| Sweden Curt Andersson Ove Gunnarsson Boo Levin Ragnar Skanåker

|1982

| Caracas

| Soviet Union Afanasijs Kuzmins Igor Puzirev Sergei Rysev Vladimir Vokhmianin

| Romania Grațian Calotă Corneliu Ion Virgil Suciu Marin Stan

| Hungary László Orbán Laszlo Nemeth Gábor Plank Istvan Szalai

|1986

| Suhl

| Soviet Union Afanasijs Kuzmins Oleg Tkachyov Vladimir Vokhmianin

| Hungary Csaba Hell Zoltan Kovacs László Orbán

| East Germany Roger Herzig Peter Schumann Juergen Wiefel

|1990

| Moscow

| Soviet Union Miroslav Ignatiuk Afanasijs Kuzmins Victor Torshin

| Hungary László Balogh Zoltan Kovacs Lajos Pálinkás

| Switzerland Otto Keller Anton Kuechler Hansrudolf Schneider

|1994

| Milan

| Poland Adam Kaczmarek Andrzej Macur Krzysztof Kucharczyk

| Meng Gang Wang Runxi Zhang Ruimin

| Hungary István Jambrik Sándor Kacskó Lajos Pálinkás

|1998

| Barcelona

| Ralf Schumann Daniel Leonhard Lars Uehlin

| Ji Haiping Zhang Penghui Meng Gang

| Shoichi Uenosono Tomohiro Kida Shuji Tazawa

|2002

| Lahti

| Ralf Schumann Marco Spangenberg Klaus-Dieter Schmidt

| Ji Haiping Liu Guohui Zhang Penghui

| Ukraine Oleg Tkachyov Roman Bondaruk Taras Magmet

|2006

| Zagreb

| Zhang Penghui Liu Zhongsheng Liu Guohui

| Russia Sergei Alifirenko Sergei Poliakov Alexei Klimov

| Italy Marco Liberato Riccardo Mazzetti Nicola Nello Pizzi

|2010

| Munich

| Zhang Jian Li Yuehong Ding Feng

| Russia Alexei Klimov Leonid Ekimov Dmitry Brayko

| Brad Balsley Keith Sanderson Emil Milev

|2014

| Granada

| Oliver Geis Christian Reitz Aaron Sauter

| Czech Republic Tomas Tehan Martin Podhráský Martin Strnad

| Russia Leonid Ekimov Alexei Klimov Alexander Alifirenko

|2018

| Changwon

| Lin Junmin Zhang Jian Yao Zhaonan

| Oliver Geis Christian Reitz Christian Freckmann

| South Korea Kim Jun-hong Song Jong-ho Park Jun-woo

|2022

| New Administrative Capital

| Li Yuehong Lu Zhiming Zhang Jueming

| Maksym Horodynets Pavlo Korostylov Denys Kushnirov

| Kim Seo-jun Lee Jae-kyoon Lee Gun-hyeok

|2023

| Baku

| Wang Xinjie Li Yuehong Liu Yangpan

| Florian Peter Oliver Geis Christian Reitz

| Song Jong-ho Lee Gun-hyeok Kim Seo-jun

World Championships, Women

{| class="wikitable"

! Year

! Place

! style="background:gold" width="210" | Gold

! style="background:silver" width="210" | Silver

! style="background:#cc9966" width="210" | Bronze

|1962

| Cairo

World Championships, Mixed

{| class="wikitable"

! Year

! Place

! style="background:gold" width="210" | Gold

! style="background:silver" width="210" | Silver

! style="background:#cc9966" width="210" | Bronze

|2022

| New Administrative Capital

| Yulia Korostylova Maksym Horodynets

| Simranpreet Kaur Brar Anish Bhanwala

| Kim Jang-mi Kim Seo-jun

World Championships, total medals

Current world records

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!colspan=9 | Current world records in 25 metre rapid fire pistol

|rowspan=3 | Men

| Final

! 39

| Aug 22, 2023

| Baku

|rowspan=3 | Junior Men

| Individual

! 589

|

| July 26, 2015 September 10, 2018 September 15, 2019

| Maribor Changwon Bologna

| Final

! 35

| September 10, 2018

| Changwon

| Teams

! 1747

| (Zhu, Cheng, Pan)

| September 10, 2018

| Changwon

Olympic and World Champions

The dominant shooter of the event has been Ralf Schumann of Germany with a total of five major World-level Championship titles, with three Olympic gold medals and two Individual World titles. He is the first and one of the only two shooters to have won a particular Olympic event three times, and is the first of three shooters to have won three individual Olympic titles. Károly Takács and Józef Zapędzki also won two consecutive Olympic titles. Huelet Benner won two consecutive World Championships.

A rare double is that between this rapid fire event and its direct opposite 50 metre pistol; this has only been accomplished by Alfred Lane (completed in 1912), Torsten Ullman (1939), Huelet Benner (1952) and Pentti Linnosvuo (1964), with Lane (both events at the 1912 Olympics) and Linnosvuo using only Olympic titles. Benner, on the other hand, is the only shooter with two titles in both events.

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! Year !! Venue !! Individual !! Team !!colspan=2 |

|style="background: #ccffcc"| 1896

|style="background: #ccffcc"| Athens

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| 1900

| Paris

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| 1912

| Stockholm

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| 1920

| Antwerp

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| 1924

| Paris

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| 1932

| Los Angeles

| 1933

| Granada

| 1935

| Rome

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 1936

| Berlin

| 1937

| Helsinki

| 1939

| Luzern

| 1947

| Stockholm

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 1948

| London

| 1949

| Buenos Aires

| 1952

| Oslo

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 1952

| Helsinki

| 1954

| Caracas

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| 1956

| Melbourne

| 1958

| Moscow

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| 1960

| Rome

| 1962

| Cairo

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| 1964

| Tokyo

| 1966

| Wiesbaden

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| 1968

| Mexico City

| 1970

| Phoenix

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 1972

| Munich

| 1974

| Thun

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 1976

| Montreal

| 1978

| Seoul

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 1980

| Moscow

| 1982

| Caracas

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| 1984

| Los Angeles

| 1986

| Suhl

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 1988

| Seoul

| 1990

| Moscow

!colspan=2 | Juniors

|style="background: #ccffcc"| 1992

|style="background: #ccffcc"| Barcelona

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! Individual

! Team

| 1994

| Milan

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| 1996

| Atlanta

| 1998

| Barcelona

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 2000

| Sydney

| 2002

| Lahti

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 2004

| Athens

| 2006

| Zagreb

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 2008

| Beijing

| 2010

| Munich

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 2012

| London

| 2014

| Granada

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 2016

| Rio de Janeiro

| 2018

| Changwon

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| 2021

| Tokyo

| 2022

| New Administrative Capital

| 2023

| Baku

|-style="background: #ccffcc"

| 2024

| Paris

References

External links

The International Shooting Sport Federation—Official site