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Free Pistol, 50 metres, Open

Date	18 October 1968 — 8:30
Status	Olympic
Location	Polígono de Tiro Vicente Suárez, Campo Militar No. 1, Ciudad de México
Participants	69 from 42 countries
Format	50 metres. 60 shots in six series of 10. 600 possible.

Over 2/3rds of the shooters used the famous Swiss Hammerli pistol, with 16% shooting a Russian pistol, and 6% an Austrian gun. The Americans used a pistol designed by the 1964 silver medalist, Franklin Green, who used it but did not qualify for the US Olympic team in 1968. Soviet Grigory Kosykh started off poorly with only a 90 on his first string, but recovered for a 562 Olympic record total, tying Heinz Mertel of West Germany. In the shoot-off, Kosykh was clean with 30, while Mertel shot only a 26 for the silver medal.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Round 1 Points	Round 2 Points	Round 3 Points	Round 4 Points	Round 5 Points	Round 6 Points
1	–	Grigory Kosykh	URS	562	90	96	95	96	93	92	Gold	OR
2	–	Heinz Mertel	FRG	562	95	94	92	93	95	93	Silver	OR
3	–	Harald Vollmar	GDR	560	95	93	95	92	94	91	Bronze
4	–	Arnold Vitarbo	USA	559	91	93	94	92	96	93
5	–	Paweł Małek	POL	556	90	92	91	94	95	94
6	–	Helmut Artelt	GDR	555	94	89	95	92	94	91
7	–	Nelson Oñate	CUB	555	90	90	92	91	98	94
8	–	Neagu Bratu	ROU	554	91	93	94	92	92	92
9	–	Matti Patteri	FIN	554	92	94	91	94	88	95
10	–	Vladimir Stolypin	URS	552	90	90	92	93	93	94
11	–	Lucian Giușcă	ROU	552	94	92	93	93	90	90
12	–	Ernst Stoll	SUI	550	90	97	90	90	91	92
13	–	John Rødseth	NOR	550	89	92	92	91	95	91
14	–	Hynek Hromada	TCH	550	92	92	87	92	94	93
15	–	Bill Hare	CAN	549	90	92	96	94	89	88
16	–	Don Hamilton	USA	549	89	94	90	92	91	93
17	–	Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	JPN	548	87	93	92	91	91	94
18	–	Hubert Garschall	AUT	547	93	92	89	90	94	89
19	–	Tüdeviin Myagmarjav	MGL	547	86	93	91	89	94	94
20	–	Jørgen Gabrielsen	DEN	547	95	94	94	90	86	88
21	–	Leif Larsson	SWE	546	98	86	90	91	94	87
22	–	Seppo Saarenpää	FIN	546	91	91	90	93	89	92
23	–	Albert Späni	SUI	546	86	95	92	91	91	91
24	–	Dencho Denev	BUL	545	91	90	91	89	93	91
25	–	László Mucza	HUN	545	91	90	87	94	93	90
26	–	Börje Nilsson	SWE	544	92	89	90	88	93	92
27	–	Jaroslav Veselý	TCH	544	89	89	90	93	94	89
28	–	Rajmund Stachurski	POL	544	89	91	92	87	92	93
29	–	Charles Sexton	GBR	543	87	96	91	90	89	90
30	–	Nico Klein	LUX	543	87	94	92	91	92	87
31	–	Jules Sobrian	CAN	543	88	90	89	92	89	95
32	–	Louis Vignaud	FRA	543	94	88	89	90	94	88
33	–	José Amedo	ESP	542	87	92	93	89	89	92
34	–	An Jae-Song	KOR	541	89	86	92	89	94	91
35	–	Barry Downs	AUS	541	93	88	87	95	88	90
36	–	Leopoldo Martínez	MEX	540	91	93	91	86	92	87
37	–	Edgar Espinoza	VEN	540	87	89	92	89	93	90
38	–	Bertram Manhin	TTO	539	93	93	88	91	87	87
39	–	Gerardo Castañeda	GUA	537	92	91	91	89	90	84
40	–	Niels Dahl	DEN	536	94	85	86	87	93	91
41	–	Juan García	ESP	534	90	91	90	87	90	86
42	–	Antonio Vita	PER	533	88	87	88	87	93	90
43	–	Hồ Minh Thu	VNM	533	88	90	91	84	89	91
44	–	Sutham Aswanit	THA	533	90	91	88	86	90	88
45	–	Kim Yong-Bae	KOR	532	89	86	91	85	90	91
46	–	Arturo Costa	CUB	530	80	89	87	92	93	89
47	–	Michael Marton	ISR	530	90	83	90	89	90	88
48	–	Enrique Barragán	URU	529	90	87	93	86	88	85
49	–	Javier Peregrina	MEX	528	86	84	92	87	87	92
50	–	Shigeto Kusunoki	JPN	528	84	88	90	85	91	90
51	–	Paul Musso	FRA	527	84	92	87	83	91	90
52	–	Türker Özenbaş	TUR	526	92	89	87	84	89	85
53	–	Chen Jeng-Gang	TPE	525	86	91	87	89	87	85
54	–	Walter Vera	URU	524	88	81	93	89	85	88
55	–	Durval Guimarães	BRA	524	86	86	81	91	87	93
56	–	Cheng Chi-Sen	TPE	521	84	86	86	88	87	90
57	–	Dương Văn Dan	VNM	519	80	94	85	88	87	85
58	–	Tito Castillo	ESA	519	86	91	85	80	86	91
59	–	Francisco Sandoval	GUA	519	86	91	84	84	90	84
60	–	Antonio Mendoza	PHI	514	86	89	81	86	89	83
61	–	José Agdamag	PHI	514	88	81	83	87	90	85
62	–	Marcus Loader	GBR	512	86	84	90	80	87	85
63	–	José González	PUR	511	88	84	85	83	86	85
64	–	Amorn Yuktanandana	THA	511	89	85	86	83	85	83
65	–	Kurt Meyer	FRG	506	91	95	93	93	90	44
66	–	Loh Kok Heng	SGP	499	84	79	82	83	84	87
67	–	Antonio Mora	CRC	499	87	85	86	78	83	80
68	–	Rodrigo Ruiz	CRC	485	87	76	77	86	86	73
69	–	Miguel Barasorda	PUR	481	70	82	77	87	82	83

Shoot-Off for 1st Place

Date	18 October 1968 — 8:30
Format	30 shots.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points
1	–	Grigory Kosykh	URS	30
2	–	Heinz Mertel	FRG	26