ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol

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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[]

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

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 During the last few decades, these targets have gradually been replaced by electronic devices which use red and green lights to indicate the beginning and the end of the shooting time, and which automatically handle late shots.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. 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[]

Year	Place	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1933	Granada	(FRA)	(ESP)	Luis Calvet Sandoz (ESP)
1935	Rome	Walter Boninsegni (ITA)	Frantisek Pokorny (TCH)	(ESP)
1937	Helsinki	Karlis Klava (LAT)	Pranas Giedrimas (LTU)	(FIN)
1939	Luzern	Torsten Ullman (SWE)	Cornelius van Oyen (GER)	Jonas Miliauskas (LTU)
1947	Stockholm	Carlos Enrique Diaz Saenz Valiente (ARG)	(GRE)	Sven Lundquist (SWE)
1949	Buenos Aires	Huelet Benner (USA)	Harry Wendell Reeves (USA)	(FIN)
1952	Oslo	Huelet Benner (USA)	Penait Calcai (ROM)	Carlos Enrique Diaz Saenz Valiente (ARG)
1954	Caracas	(URS)	William McMillan (USA)	Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN)
1958	Moscow	(URS)	Alexander Zabelin (URS)	Stefan Petrescu (ROM)
1962	Cairo	Alexander Zabelin (URS)	Igor Bakalov (URS)	(USA)
1966	Wiesbaden	Virgil Atanasiu (ROM)	Jozef Zapedzki (POL)	Renart Suleimanov (URS)
1970	Phoenix	Giovanni Liverzani (ITA)	Ladislav Falta (TCH)	(BUL)
1974	Thun	Alfred Radke (FRG)	(FRG)	Viktor Torshin (URS)
1978	Seoul	Ove Gunnarsson (SWE)	Werner Beier (FRG)	Gerhard Petritsch (AUT)
1982	Caracas	(URS)	Ove Gunnarsson (SWE)	Alfred Radke (FRG)
1986	Suhl	Adam Kaczmarek (POL)	Andrzej Macur (POL)	Ralf Schumann (GDR)
1990	Moscow	Ralf Schumann (GDR)	Miroslav Ignatiuk (URS)	Petri Eteläniemi (FIN)
1994	Milan	Krzysztof Kucharczyk (POL)	Emil Milev (BUL)	Ralf Schumann (GER)
1998	Barcelona	Ralf Schumann (GER)	Daniel Leonhard (GER)	Iulian Raicea (ROM)
2002	Lahti	Marco Spangenberg (GER)	Ralf Schumann (GER)	Niki Marty (SUI)
2006	Zagreb	Zhang Penghui (CHN)	Liu Zhongsheng (CHN)	Sergei Alifirenko (RUS)
2010	Munich	Alexei Klimov (RUS)	Zhang Jian (CHN)	Li Yuehong (CHN)
2014	Granada	Kim Jun-hong (KOR)	Oliver Geis (GER)	Li Yuehong (CHN)
2018	Changwon	Lin Junmin (CHN)	Zhang Jian (CHN)	Jean Quiquampoix (FRA)

World Championships, Men's Team[]

Year	Place	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1937	Helsinki	Finland Jaakko Rintanen Sulo Cederström	Lithuania Pranas Giedrimas	Germany Hans Funck Walter Hartwig Paul Jasper Cornelius van Oyen
1939	Luzern	Hungary Karoly Takacs Laszlo Vadnay	Lithuania Pranas Giedrimas Jonas Miliauskas	Germany Ludwig Leupold Cornelius van Oyen
1947	Stockholm	Italy Ferdinando Bernini	Finland Väinö Heusala	Greece Angelos Papadimas
1949	Buenos Aires	Argentina Carlos Enrique Diaz Saenz Valiente Dionisio Fernandez Oscar Rosendo Cervo	Finland Väinö Heusala Eino Saarnikko	United States Huelet Benner Harry Wendell Reeves
1952	Oslo	United States Huelet Benner William McMillan Harry Wendell Reeves	Finland Väinö Heusala Veli-Jussi Hölsö	Argentina Oscar Rosendo Cervo Carlos Enrique Diaz Saenz Valiente
1954	Caracas	Soviet Union	United States Huelet Benner William McMillan	Finland Väinö Heusala Pentti Linnosvuo
1958	Moscow	Soviet Union Alexander Zabelin	United States Huelet Benner William McMillan	Hungary Aladar Dobsa Jozsef Gyonyoru Ferenc Kun Karoly Takacs
1962	Cairo	Soviet Union Igor Bakalov Renart Suleimanov Alexander Zabelin	United States William McMillan	Italy Ugo Amicosante Giovanni Liverzani Roberto Mazzoni Sergio Varetto
1966	Wiesbaden	Soviet Union Igor Bakalov Renart Suleimanov Alexander Zabelin	Romania Virgil Atanasiu Marcel Roşca Ion Tripşa	East Germany Gerhard Feller Gerhard Dommrich
1970	Phoenix	Czechoslovakia Ladislav Falta Vladimir Hurt Lubomir Nacovsky	Romania Virgil Atanasiu Dan Iuga Marcel Rosca Ion Tripsa	Italy Ugo Amicosante Roberto Ferraris Giovanni Liverzani
1974	Thun	Soviet Union Afanasijs Kuzmins	Czechoslovakia Vladimir Hurt Vladimir Hyka Lubomir Nacovsky	Romania Virgil Atanasiu Corneliu Ion Marin Stan Marcel Rosca
1978	Seoul	West Germany Werner Beier Alfred Radke Helmut Seeger	Italy Roberto Ferraris Gianfranco Mantelli Alberto Sevieri	Sweden Curt Andersson Ove Gunnarsson Ragnar Skanåker
1982	Caracas	Soviet Union Afanasijs Kuzmins Vladimir Vokhmianin	Romania Corneliu Ion Marin Stan	Hungary Laszlo Orban Gabor Plank
1986	Suhl	Soviet Union Afanasijs Kuzmins Oleg Tkachyov Vladimir Vokhmianin	Hungary Zoltan Kovacs Laszlo Orban	East Germany
1990	Moscow	Soviet Union Miroslav Ignatiuk Afanasijs Kuzmins	Hungary László Balogh Zoltan Kovacs Lajos Palinkas	Switzerland
1994	Milan	Poland Adam Kaczmarek Andrzej Macur Krzysztof Kucharczyk	China Meng Gang Zhang Ruimin	Hungary Istvan Jambrik Sandor Kacsko Lajos Palinkas
1998	Barcelona	Germany Ralf Schumann Daniel Leonhard	China Zhang Penghui Meng Gang	Japan Tomohiro Kida Shuji Tazawa
2002	Lahti	Germany Ralf Schumann Marco Spangenberg	China Zhang Penghui	Ukraine Oleg Tkachyov Roman Bondaruk
2006	Zagreb	China Zhang Penghui Liu Zhongsheng	Russia Sergei Alifirenko Sergei Poliakov Alexei Klimov	Italy Riccardo Mazzetti
2010	Munich	China Zhang Jian Li Yuehong Ding Feng	Russia Alexei Klimov Leonid Ekimov	United States Brad Balsley Keith Sanderson Emil Milev
2014	Granada	Germany Oliver Geis Christian Reitz	Czech Republic Martin Podhrasky Martin Strnad	Russia Leonid Ekimov Alexei Klimov
2018	Changwon	China Lin Junmin Zhang Jian Yao Zhaonan	Germany Oliver Geis Christian Reitz Christian Freckmann	South Korea Kim Jun-hong Song Jong-ho Park Jun-woo

World Championships, total medals[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	12	3	3	18
2	China (CHN)	6	5	2	13
3	Germany (GER)	5	5	3	13
4	United States (USA)	3	5	3	11
5	Poland (POL)	3	2	0	5
6	Italy (ITA)	3	1	3	7
7	West Germany (FRG)	2	2	1	5
8	Sweden (SWE)	2	1	2	5
9	Argentina (ARG)	2	0	2	4
10	Romania (ROU)	1	4	3	8
11	Finland (FIN)	1	3	5	9
12	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	3	0	4
13	Hungary (HUN)	1	2	3	6
14	Russia (RUS)	1	2	1	4
15	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	3	4
16	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
18	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
19	Lithuania (LTU)	0	3	1	4
20	Spain (ESP)	0	1	2	3
21	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	1	2
	Greece (GRE)	0	1	1	2
23	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
24	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	2	2
25	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 nations)		47	45	46	138

Current world records[]

Current world records in 25 metre rapid fire pistol
Men	Qualification	593	Christian Reitz (GER)  Kim Jun-hong (KOR)	July 30, 2013 July 6, 2014	Osijek (CRO) Beijing (CHN)
	Final	38	Kim Jun-hong (KOR)	April 25, 2018	Changwon (KOR)
	Teams	1756	China (Zhang, Lin, Yao)	September 10, 2018	Changwon (KOR)
Junior Men	Individual	589	Jean Quiquampoix (FRA)   (CHN)   (GER)	July 26, 2015 September 10, 2018 September 15, 2019	Maribor (SLO) Changwon (KOR) Bologna (ITA)
	Final	35	(CHN)	September 10, 2018	Changwon (KOR)
	Teams	1747	China (, , )	September 10, 2018	Changwon (KOR)

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. Karoly Takacs and Jozef Zapedzki 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.

Year	Venue	Individual	Team
1896[a]	Athens	Ioannis Frangoudis (GRE)		Alfred Lane at the 1912 Olympics
1900[b]	Paris	Maurice Larrouy (FRA)
1912[c]	Stockholm	Alfred Lane (USA)	Sweden
1920[d][1]	Antwerp	Guilherme Paraense (BRA)	United States
1924	Paris	Henry Bailey (USA)
1932	Los Angeles	Renzo Morigi (ITA)
1933	Granada	Charles des Jammonières (FRA)
1935	Rome	Walter Boninsegni (ITA)
1936	Berlin	Cornelius van Oyen (GER)
1937	Helsinki	Karlis Klava (LAT)	Finland
1939	Luzern	Torsten Ullman (SWE)	Hungary
1947	Stockholm	Carlos Enrique Diaz Saenz Valiente (ARG)	Italy
1948	London	Károly Takács (HUN)
1949	Buenos Aires	Huelet Benner (USA)	Argentina
1952	Oslo	Huelet Benner (USA)	United States
1952	Helsinki	Károly Takács (HUN)
1954	Caracas	(URS)	Soviet Union
1956	Melbourne	Ştefan Petrescu (ROU)
1958	Moscow	(URS)	Soviet Union	Károly Takács, the first double Olympic Champion, competing in 1961
1960	Rome	William McMillan (USA)
1962	Cairo	Alexander Zabelin (URS)	Soviet Union
1964	Tokyo	Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN)
1966	Wiesbaden	Virgil Atanasiu (ROU)	Soviet Union
1968	Mexico City	Józef Zapędzki (POL)
1970	Phoenix	Giovanni Liverzani (ITA)	Czechoslovakia
1972	Munich	Józef Zapędzki (POL)
1974	Thun	Alfred Radke (FRG)	Soviet Union
1976	Montreal	Norbert Klaar (GDR)
1978	Seoul	Ove Gunnarsson (SWE)	West Germany
1980	Moscow	Corneliu Ion (ROU)
1982	Caracas	(URS)	Soviet Union
1984	Los Angeles	Takeo Kamachi (JPN)
1986	Suhl	Adam Kaczmarek (POL)	Soviet Union
1988	Seoul	Afanasijs Kuzmins (URS)
1990	Moscow	Ralf Schumann (GDR)	Soviet Union	Juniors
1992	Barcelona	Ralf Schumann (GER)		Individual	Team
1994	Milan	Krzysztof Kucharczyk (POL)	Poland	(USA)	Germany
1996	Atlanta	Ralf Schumann (GER)
1998	Barcelona	Ralf Schumann (GER)	Germany	Jorge Llames (ESP)	Germany
2000	Sydney	Sergei Alifirenko (RUS)
2002	Lahti	Marco Spangenberg (GER)	Germany	(GER)	Germany
2004	Athens	Ralf Schumann (GER)
2006	Zagreb	Zhang Penghui (CHN)	China	Christian Reitz (GER)	Russia
2008	Beijing	Oleksandr Petriv (UKR)
2010	Munich	Alexei Klimov (RUS)	China	(CHN)	China
2012	London	Leuris Pupo (CUB)
2014	Granada	(KOR)	Germany	Jean Quiquampoix (FRA)	China
2016	Rio de Janeiro	Christian Reitz (GER)
2021	Tokyo	Jean Quiquampoix (FRA)

References[]

External links[]

• The International Shooting Sport Federation—Official site