| Date | 13 August 1932 — 9:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Los Angeles Police Pistol Range, Elysian Park, Los Angeles, California | |
| Participants | 26 from 9 countries | |
| Format | 50 metres prone. 30 shots. 300 possible. | |
There were 14 firing points at the rifle range. With 26 competitors in this event, the English Match was fired in two relays. During the first relay, Hungary’s Antal Barát-Lemberkovits shot one round at the wrong target. The shot scored a 10 on the wrong target. The error eventually cost Barát-Lemberkovits the gold medal, as he finished nine points out of the gold medal. Bertil Rönnmark (SWE), a pharmacist, and Gustavo Huet (MEX), a student, tied for first with 294 and shot-off for the gold medal, with Rönnmark winning.
Rönnmark used a Danish rifle and ammunition, while Huet used American equipment. After the shooting, Swedes Rönnmark and Gustaf Andersson (5th) had given their left-over bullets to friends. When they both made a shoot-off, they had to track back their ammo, risking elimination without bullets.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | Shoot-Off | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bertil Rönnmark |  SWE | 294 | – | Gold | ||
| 2 | Gustavo Huet |  MEX | 294 | – | Silver | ||
| 3 | Zoltán Soós-Ruszka Hradetzky |  HUN | 293 | – | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Mario Zorzi |  ITA | 293 | – | |||
| 5 | Gustaf Andersson | SWE | 292 | 296 | 1 | ||
| 6 | William Harding |  USA | 292 | – | |||
| 7 | Francisco António Real |  POR | 292 | – | |||
| 8 | Karl August Larsson | SWE | 292 | – | |||
| 9 | Julio Castro |  ESP | 291 | – | |||
| 10 | Carlos Guerrero | MEX | 290 | – | |||
| =11 | Tibor Tary | HUN | 289 | – | |||
| =11 | Gustavo Salinas | MEX | 289 | – | |||
| =13 | Ugo Cantelli | ITA | 288 | – | |||
| =13 | Edward Shumaker | USA | 288 | – | |||
| 15 | Rom Stanifer | USA | 287 | – | |||
| =16 | Antonio Daneri |  ARG | 286 | – | |||
| =16 | Amedeo Bruni | ITA | 286 | – | |||
| 18 | Antal Barát-Lemberkovits | HUN | 285 | – | |||
| 19 | Manoel Braga |  BRA | 284 | – | |||
| =20 | Manuel Guerra | POR | 282 | – | |||
| =20 | Antônio Guimarães | BRA | 282 | – | |||
| 22 | Sigfrido Vogel | ARG | 281 | – | |||
| 23 | José Maria Ferreira | POR | 279 | – | |||
| 24 | José Castro | BRA | 277 | – | |||
| 25 | Buenaventura Bagaria | ESP | 274 | – | |||
| 26 | Manuel Corrales | ESP | 268 | – |
