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Free Pistol, 50 metres, Open

Date	18 July 1976 — 8:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Stand de tir olympique, L'Acadie, Québec, CAN
Participants	47 from 31 countries
Format	50 metres. 60 shots in six series of 10. 600 possible.

The free pistol was the first shooting event in 1976. As the event started, the national flags were standing straight out, reflecting the strong breeze that affected the shooters all day, despite the high walls that protected the shooting range. Even in the wind, Uwe Potteck (GDR) broke the world record with 573 to win the event easily, by six points, over the previous world record holder, his teammate Harald Vollmar. Austrian Rudolf Dollinger finished third, repeating his bronze medal from 1972.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Round 1 Points	Round 2 Points	Round 3 Points	Round 4 Points	Round 5 Points	Round 6 Points
1	135	Uwe Potteck	GDR	573	92	98	94	95	98	96	Gold	WR
2	137	Harald Vollmar	GDR	567	93	97	92	95	95	95	Silver
3	15	Rudolf Dollinger	AUT	562	93	92	95	93	96	93	Bronze
4	147	Heinz Mertel	FRG	560	94	92	95	94	94	91
5	340	Ragnar Skanåker	SWE	559	90	91	91	95	95	97
6	215	Vincenzo Tondo	ITA	559	88	93	96	96	92	94
7	374	Grigory Kosykh	URS	559	91	94	96	94	91	93
8	42	Dencho Denev	BUL	557	91	90	92	98	92	94
9	33	Bertino de Souza	BRA	556	95	91	94	92	91	93
10	382	Hershel Anderson	USA	556	91	95	92	95	91	92
11	110	Jean Faggion	FRA	554	88	95	94	94	94	89
=12	116	Laszlo Antal	GBR	553	91	95	89	89	93	96
=12	281	Sławomir Romanowski	POL	553	95	94	89	93	94	88
=14	335	André Porthault	FRA	552	92	95	97	90	82	96
=14	347	Kjell Jacobsson	SWE	552	91	91	93	97	91	89
=14	114	Ivan Némethy	TCH	552	88	93	92	91	91	97
17	205	Enzo Contegno	ITA	551	94	93	90	91	91	92
=18	326	Lyubcho Dyakov	BUL	550	92	94	93	92	89	90
=18	43	Roman Burkard	SUI	550	92	90	95	90	92	91
=18	367	Akin Ersoy	TUR	550	91	91	92	96	89	91
=21	265	Shigetoshi Tashiro	JPN	549	89	93	89	94	89	95
=21	227	John Rødseth	NOR	549	93	94	93	91	89	89
23	56	Tom Guinn	CAN	548	91	95	94	91	88	89
=24	140	Jules Sobrian	CAN	547	91	91	95	89	88	93
=24	63	Gerhard Beyer	FRG	547	90	87	94	94	92	90
=26	257	Tüdeviin Myagmarjav	MGL	546	92	93	90	89	92	90
=26	379	Marlen P'ap'ava	URS	546	90	88	88	95	92	93
28	225	Masanobu Ohata	JPN	545	89	90	93	92	90	91
29	40	Paulo Lamego	BRA	544	93	93	87	89	94	88
30	16	Hubert Garschall	AUT	543	91	89	92	89	89	93
31	82	Niels Dahl	DEN	542	90	91	90	89	93	89
=32	300	Norman Harrison	AUS	540	89	93	89	91	91	87
=32	12	Johnny Cannizzaro	PUR	540	88	88	95	91	86	92
34	312	Dan Iuga	ROU	539	88	90	94	94	87	86
35	351	Miroslav Štefan	TCH	537	90	92	87	87	91	90
36	255	Tserenjavyn Ölziibayar	MGL	536	83	91	94	89	91	88
=37	385	Art Macapagal	PHI	534	91	91	86	88	90	88
=37	272	Richard Crawford	USA	534	91	90	87	92	92	82
=39	250	Jaime Sánchez	BOL	531	88	91	89	89	89	85
=39	32	Javier Padilla	MEX	531	87	86	90	90	93	85
41	353	Sutham Aswanit	THA	529	84	93	91	87	88	86
42	10	John Gillman	AUS	525	87	83	86	88	90	91
=43	3	Juan Casey	ARG	515	83	90	89	89	86	78
=43	27	Anne Goffin	BEL	515	89	86	88	84	81	87
45	363	Veera Uppapong	THA	507	85	83	88	88	88	75
46	173	Camilo Pedro	HKG	490	80	81	85	86	78	80
47	31	John Waight	BIZ	419	70	71	74	69	74	61
DNS	77	Luis Navarrete	CUB	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	78	Severo Simal	CUB	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	101	Matti Patteri	FIN	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	156	Rafael Coronado	GUA	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	165	Eddy Louis	HAI	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	167	Monod Philippe	HAI	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	186	István Szabácsy	HUN	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	249	Edgar Guillaumin	MEX	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	288	Ju Yong-San	PRK	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	290	Kim Hung-Du	PRK	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	397	Ljubiša Lazarević	YUG	–	–	–	–	–	–	–