ISSF 25 meter standard pistol

25 meter standard pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events, introduced at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in 1970. It has its roots in the NRA conventional pistol competitions.

The standard pistol match is shot with a regular sport pistol (also called a standard pistol) in caliber .22 LR. As with all ISSF pistol disciplines, all firing must be done with one hand, unsupported.

The 60-shot match is divided into 5-shot strings with different timings:

• 4 strings within 150 seconds each - competitor can begin the series in any fashion he/she chooses.
• 4 strings within 20 seconds each - competitor must begin each string with pistol in one outstretched arm from the 45-degree angle starting position.
• 4 strings within 10 seconds each - competitor must begin each string with pistol in one outstretched arm from the 45-degree angle starting position.

Just like 25 meter center-fire pistol, standard pistol is a non-Olympic event and so gains little attention. It is one of the few events where targets did not change in 1989, so no resetting of records has been made. As a result, many records are rather old.

World Championships, Men[]

Year	Place	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1970	Phoenix	Renart Suleimanov (URS)	Hynek Hromada (TCH)	William McMillan (USA)
1974	Thun	(URS)	(USA)	(URS)
1978	Seoul	Ragnar Skanåker (SWE)	Seppo Saarenpää (FIN)	(FIN)
1982	Caracas	Vladas Turla (URS)	Alexsander Melentiev (URS)	Aldo Andreotti (ITA)
1986	Suhl	(URS)	Hermann Sailer (AUT)	Igor Basinski (URS)
1990	Moscow	Miroslav Ignatiuk (URS)	(DEN)	(SUI)
1994	Milan	(KOR)	(SUI)	Seppo Makinen (FIN)
1998	Barcelona	Mikhail Nestruev (RUS)	Paal Hembre (NOR)	(CHN)
2002	Lahti	(DEN)	Alexander Danilov (ISR)	Giovanni Bossi (AUT)
2006	Zagreb	(CHN)	Jong Su Kim (PRK)	Jakkrit Panichpatikum (THA)
2010	Munich	(KOR)	(CHN)	Júlio Almeida (BRA)
2014	Granada	Yusuf Dikec (TUR)	Joao Costa (POR)	Christian Reitz (GER)

World Championships, Men Junior[]

Year	Place	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1994	Milan	Jaspal Rana (IND)	(ARG)	(USA)
1998	Barcelona	(VEN)	(FRA)	(RUS)
2002	Lahti	Denis Kulakov (RUS)	Vladimir Issachenko (KAZ)	(FRA)
2006	Zagreb	(KOR)	Leonid Ekimov (RUS)	(FRA)
2010	Munich	(CHN)	(GER)	(CHN)
2014	Granada	Alexander Chichkov (USA)	(ITA)	(IND)

World Championships, Men Team[]

Year	Place	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1970	Phoenix	United States William Mc Millan	Soviet Union Igor Bakalov Renart Suleimanov	Czechoslovakia Ladislav Falta Hynek Hromada Vladimir Hurt Lubomir Nacovsky
1974	Thun	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia Vladimir Hyka Hynek Hromada Vladimir Hurt	United States
1978	Seoul	Finland Seppo Makinen Paavo Palokangas Seppo Saarenpää	Italy Alberto Sevieri Roberto Vannozzi	Switzerland Alex Tschui
1982	Caracas	Soviet Union Aleksandr Melentyev Vladas Turla	Italy Aldo Andreotti	United States Erich Buljung Don Nygord
1986	Suhl	Soviet Union Igor Basinski Sergei Pyzhianov	Austria Hermann Sailer	Finland Seppo Makinen Paavo Palokangas Jouni Vainio
1990	Moscow	Soviet Union Igor Basinski Miroslav Ignatiuk	China Yifu Wang	United States Erich Buljung Don Nygord
1994	Milan	Finland Seppo Makinen Jouni Vainio	China	Switzerland Andreas Schweizer
1998	Barcelona	China Yifu Wang	Norway Paal Hembre	Austria Giovanni Bossi
2002	Lahti	Austria Giovanni Bossi	Korea	China
2006	Zagreb	China	Russia Mikhail Nestruev Sergei Poliakov Sergei Alifirenko	Ukraine Oleg Tkachyov Roman Bondaruk Oleksandr Petriv
2010	Munich	China	Germany Christian Reitz	Korea
2014	Granada	Ukraine Pavlo Korostylov Roman Bondaruk Oleksandr Petriv	China	Turkey Yusuf Dikec

World Championships, total medals[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	11	2	2	15
2	China (CHN)	5	5	3	13
3	South Korea (KOR)	3	1	1	5
4	Russia (RUS)	2	2	1	5
5	United States (USA)	2	1	6	9
6	Finland (FIN)	2	1	4	7
7	Austria (AUT)	1	3	2	6
8	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	0	2
9	India (IND)	1	0	1	2
	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	1	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
12	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	1	0	0	1
14	Italy (ITA)	0	3	1	4
15	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	2	1	3
	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
17	Norway (NOR)	0	2	0	2
18	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	3	4
19	France (FRA)	0	1	2	3
20	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
25	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 nations)		32	32	32	96

Current World Records[]

Current world records in 25 metre standard pistol
Men	Individual	584	Erich Buljung (USA)	August 20, 1983	Caracas (VEN)
	Teams	1725	Soviet Union (Kuzmins, Melentyev, Turla)  Soviet Union (Kuzmins, Basinski, Pyzhianov)	September 10, 1985 September 8, 1986	Osijek (YUG) Suhl (GDR)
Junior Men	Individual	581	Pavlo Korostylov (UKR)	July 30, 2017	Baku (AZE)
	Teams	1707	India (, , Singh)	July 13, 2019	Suhl (GER)

World champions[]

Year	Venue	Individual	Team
1970	Phoenix	Renart Suleimanov (URS)	United States
1974	Thun	Viktor Torshin (URS)	Soviet Union
1978	Seoul	Ragnar Skanåker (SWE)	Finland
1982	Caracas	Vladas Turla (URS)	Soviet Union
1986	Suhl	Afanasijs Kuzmins (URS)	Soviet Union	Juniors
1990	Moscow	Miroslav Ignatiuk (URS)	Soviet Union	Individual	Team
1994	Milan	(KOR)	Finland	Jaspal Rana (IND)	Moldova
1998	Barcelona	Mikhail Nestruyev (RUS)	China	(VEN)	Venezuela
2002	Lahti	(DEN)	Austria	Denis Kulakov (RUS)	Russia
2006	Zagreb	(CHN)	China	(KOR)	Russia
2010	Munich	(KOR)	China	(CHN)	China
2014	Granada	Yusuf Dikec (TUR)	Ukraine	Alexander Chichkov (USA)	Mongolia