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Free Pistol, 50 metres, Men

Date	18 October 1964 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Asaka Shooting Range, Nezu Park, Asaka, Saitama
Participants	52 from 34 countries
Format	50 metres. 60 shots in six series of 10. 600 possible.

Finland’s Väinö Markkanen equaled the Olympic record of 560 to win the gold medal in the free pistol. Second-place Franklin Green of the United States used a Hammerli pistol with an electric trigger of his own design, with Remington ammunition. In a shoot-off with East German Johann Garrels, Yoshihisa Yoshikawa of Japan repeated as bronze medalist. His medals were especially noteworthy as Japanese citizens could not legally possess handguns in 1964.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Round 1 Points	Round 2 Points	Round 3 Points	Round 4 Points	Round 5 Points	Round 6 Points
1	141	Väinö Markkanen	FIN	560	90	96	96	94	93	91	Gold	=OR
2	307	Frank Green	USA	557	92	95	95	91	93	91	Silver
3	190	Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	JPN	554	94	89	89	93	95	94	Bronze
4	151	Johann Garreis	GER	554	86	96	94	93	94	91
5	157	Anthony Chivers	GBR	552	93	91	89	91	95	93
6	236	Antonio Vita	PER	550	95	89	92	91	91	92
7	274	Leif Larsson	SWE	549	92	92	94	91	89	91
8	306	T. D. Smith	USA	548	92	90	97	91	88	90
9	202	An Jae-Song	KOR	548	94	91	91	94	89	89
10	142	Immo Huhtinen	FIN	546	91	89	91	92	93	90
11	315	Albert Udachin	URS	545	88	90	92	95	88	92
12	269	Juan García	ESP	545	87	90	94	94	91	89
13	172	Lajos Kelemen	HUN	545	93	92	95	90	85	90
14	146	Jean Renaux	FRA	544	92	90	89	88	90	95
15	118	Dencho Denev	BUL	543	90	94	94	87	88	90
16	126	Gary McMahon	CAN	543	89	93	89	91	93	88
17	281	Ludwig Hemauer	SUI	542	89	91	86	90	94	92
18	132	Vladimír Kudrna	TCH	542	91	89	90	91	89	92
19	264	Neagu Bratu	ROU	542	87	90	90	92	91	92
20	173	Ferenc Gönczi	HUN	541	87	91	89	89	89	96
21	314	Yevgeny Rasskazov	URS	541	94	89	91	88	89	90
22	263	Gavril Maghiar	ROU	540	93	84	92	89	91	91
23	119	Todor Kozlovski	BUL	540	91	89	89	90	93	88
24	280	Ernst Stoll	SUI	539	86	90	88	91	92	92
25	251	Kazimierz Kurzawski	POL	537	87	89	90	91	90	90
26	189	Shinji Takahashi	JPN	536	87	84	93	88	93	91
27	125	Bill Hare	CAN	535	88	88	87	92	91	89
28	320	Edgar Espinoza	VEN	532	85	89	90	87	93	88
29	158	Harry Cullum	GBR	532	87	88	89	90	84	94
30	152	Hans Kaupmannsennecke	GER	530	93	89	79	92	87	90
31	167	William Gillies	HKG	529	86	85	89	89	86	94
32	203	Seo Gang-Uk	KOR	527	87	84	90	86	90	90
33	182	Ugo Simoni	ITA	526	88	86	92	82	88	90
34	244	Edgar Bond	PHI	526	92	79	90	88	88	89
35	215	Enrique Torres	MEX	524	81	85	88	91	93	86
36	195	Gerry Horner	KEN	524	90	87	94	87	84	82
37	216	Raúl Ibarra	MEX	524	88	86	85	89	88	88
38	110	Rodney Johnson	AUS	521	85	84	88	92	90	82
39	294	Paitoon Smuthranond	THA	518	89	86	88	86	88	81
40	219	Tüdeviin Myagmarjav	MGL	518	90	81	89	78	90	90
41	103	Humberto Aspitia	ARG	514	85	84	84	86	88	87
42	255	Fred Guillermety	PUR	512	88	87	85	86	79	87
43	166	Hoo Kam Chiu	HKG	510	80	84	88	83	87	88
44	295	Amorn Yuktanandana	THA	509	85	84	83	85	88	84
45	111	Leslie Coffey	AUS	508	84	86	86	83	83	86
46	258	M. A. Salam	PAK	507	87	81	86	77	88	88
47	300	Hassan El-Sayed Attia	EGY	506	85	84	88	82	85	82
48	245	Mariano Ninonuevo	PHI	501	83	79	77	92	87	83
49	210	Kok Kum Woh	MAS	498	84	87	83	75	89	80
50	235	Pedro Puente	PER	494	71	83	88	79	89	84
51	193	Tony Bridge	JAM	492	83	83	78	88	81	79
52	179	Nosratollah Momtahen	IRI	490	83	73	83	77	90	84
DNS	130	Álvaro Clopatofsky	COL	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	270	Mariano Omist	ESP	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

Shoot-Off 3/4

Date	18 October 1964
Format	30 shots.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points
1	190	Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	JPN	26
2	151	Johann Garreis	GER	24