Date | 24 – 25 July 1980 — 9:00 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Strelbishche Dynamo, Mytishchi | |
Participants | 40 from 25 countries | |
Format | 50 metres. 60 shots in two courses of 30. 600 possible. |
The competition came down to three European shooters – Corneliu Ion (ROM), Jürgen Wiefel (GDR), and Austrian Gerhard Petritsch. They tied for first with 596. Wiefel had won the silver medal in 1976 and he and Ion went thru the shoot-off with 148, Petritsch dropping to the bronze medal with 147. The second round of shoot-offs saw Wiefel and Ion tied with 147, but Ion finally prevailed in the third round with 148 to Wiefel’s 147, giving the East German a second consecutive silver medal.
Date | 25 July 1980 |
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Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Shoot-off 1 Points | Shoot-off 2 Points | Shoot-off 3 Points | ||
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1 | – | Corneliu Ion | ![]() | 148 | 147 | 148 | ||
2 | – | Jürgen Wiefel | ![]() | 148 | 147 | 147 | ||
3 | – | Gerhard Petritsch | ![]() | 146 | – | – |