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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	–	Väinö Markkanen	FIN	560	90	96	96	94	93	91	Gold	=OR
2	–	Frank Green	USA	557	92	95	95	91	93	91	Silver
3	–	Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	JPN	554	94	89	89	93	95	94	Bronze
4	–	Johann Garreis	GER	554	86	96	94	93	94	91
5	–	Anthony Chivers	GBR	552	93	91	89	91	95	93
6	–	Antonio Vita	PER	550	95	89	92	91	91	92
7	–	Leif Larsson	SWE	549	92	92	94	91	89	91
8	–	T. D. Smith	USA	548	92	90	97	91	88	90
9	–	An Jae-Song	KOR	548	94	91	91	94	89	89
10	–	Immo Huhtinen	FIN	546	91	89	91	92	93	90
11	–	Albert Udachin	URS	545	88	90	92	95	88	92
12	–	Juan García	ESP	545	87	90	94	94	91	89
13	–	Lajos Kelemen	HUN	545	93	92	95	90	85	90
14	–	Jean Renaux	FRA	544	92	90	89	88	90	95
15	–	Dencho Denev	BUL	543	90	94	94	87	88	90
16	–	Gary McMahon	CAN	543	89	93	89	91	93	88
17	–	Ludwig Hemauer	SUI	542	89	91	86	90	94	92
18	–	Vladimír Kudrna	TCH	542	91	89	90	91	89	92
19	–	Neagu Bratu	ROU	542	87	90	90	92	91	92
20	–	Ferenc Gönczi	HUN	541	87	91	89	89	89	96
21	–	Yevgeny Rasskazov	URS	541	94	89	91	88	89	90
22	–	Gavril Maghiar	ROU	540	93	84	92	89	91	91
23	–	Todor Kozlovski	BUL	540	91	89	89	90	93	88
24	–	Ernst Stoll	SUI	539	86	90	88	91	92	92
25	–	Kazimierz Kurzawski	POL	537	87	89	90	91	90	90
26	–	Shinji Takahashi	JPN	536	87	84	93	88	93	91
27	–	Bill Hare	CAN	535	88	88	87	92	91	89
28	–	Edgar Espinoza	VEN	532	85	89	90	87	93	88
29	–	Harry Cullum	GBR	532	87	88	89	90	84	94
30	–	Hans Kaupmannsennecke	GER	530	93	89	79	92	87	90
31	–	William Gillies	HKG	529	86	85	89	89	86	94
32	–	Seo Gang-Uk	KOR	527	87	84	90	86	90	90
33	–	Ugo Simoni	ITA	526	88	86	92	82	88	90
34	–	Edgar Bond	PHI	526	92	79	90	88	88	89
35	–	Enrique Torres	MEX	524	81	85	88	91	93	86
36	–	Michael Horner	KEN	524	90	87	94	87	84	82
37	–	Raúl Ibarra	MEX	524	88	86	85	89	88	88
38	–	Rodney Johnson	AUS	521	85	84	88	92	90	82
39	–	Paitoon Smuthranond	THA	518	89	86	88	86	88	81
40	–	Tüdeviin Myagmarjav	MGL	518	90	81	89	78	90	90
41	–	Humberto Aspitia	ARG	514	85	84	84	86	88	87
42	–	Fred Guillermety	PUR	512	88	87	85	86	79	87
43	–	Hoo Kam Chiu	HKG	510	80	84	88	83	87	88
44	–	Amorn Yuktanandana	THA	509	85	84	83	85	88	84
45	–	Leslie Coffey	AUS	508	84	86	86	83	83	86
46	–	Ahmad Salam Muhammad	PAK	507	87	81	86	77	88	88
47	–	Hassan El-Sayed Attia	EGY	506	85	84	88	82	85	82
48	–	Mariano Ninonuevo	PHI	501	83	79	77	92	87	83
49	–	Kok Kum Woh	MAS	498	84	87	83	75	89	80
50	–	Pedro Puente	PER	494	71	83	88	79	89	84
51	–	Tony Bridge	JAM	492	83	83	78	88	81	79
52	–	Nosratollah Momtahen	IRI	490	83	73	83	77	90	84

Shoot-Off for 3rd Place

Date	18 October 1964
Format	30 shots.

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