| Date | 29 July 1984 — 9:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Prado Recreational Area, Chino, California | |
| Participants | 56 from 38 countries | |
| Format | 50 metres. 60 shots in six series of 10. 600 possible. | |
Xu Haifeng won the gold medal in this event, the first gold medal awarded at the 1984 Olympic Games, and the first medal ever won by a Chinese athlete. The silver medalist, Ragnar Skanåker, had won the gold medal in this event in 2 at München. China’s Wang Yifu took the bronze medal, the second Chinese athlete to win an Olympic 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 | 87 | Xu Haifeng | CHN | 566 | 97 | 97 | 93 | 93 | 95 | 91 | Gold | ||
| 2 | 418 | Ragnar Skanåker | SWE | 565 | 96 | 93 | 95 | 96 | 93 | 92 | Silver | ||
| 3 | 83 | Wang Yifu | CHN | 564 | 93 | 93 | 92 | 93 | 97 | 96 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 170 | Jürgen Hartmann | FRG | 560 | 93 | 94 | 96 | 90 | 94 | 93 | |||
| 5 | 254 | Vincenzo Tondo | ITA | 560 | 92 | 94 | 95 | 94 | 93 | 92 | |||
| 6 | 157 | Philippe Cola | FRA | 559 | 89 | 88 | 94 | 95 | 95 | 98 | |||
| 7 | 469 | Héctor D'Lima Carrillo | VEN | 558 | 91 | 91 | 96 | 94 | 92 | 94 | |||
| 8 | 148 | Paavo Palokangas | FIN | 558 | 94 | 94 | 92 | 93 | 91 | 94 | |||
| 9 | 447 | Erich Buljung | USA | 558 | 95 | 93 | 91 | 94 | 93 | 92 | |||
| 10 | 441 | Tu Tsai-Hsing | TPE | 558 | 95 | 94 | 96 | 90 | 93 | 90 | |||
| =11 | 371 | Sorin Babii | ROU | 555 | 91 | 95 | 95 | 94 | 90 | 90 | |||
| =11 | 356 | Carlos Hora | PER | 555 | 92 | 91 | 94 | 94 | 91 | 93 | |||
| =11 | 25 | Vinzenz Schweighofer | AUT | 555 | 88 | 94 | 87 | 97 | 98 | 91 | |||
| =14 | 396 | Rolf Beutler | SUI | 554 | 93 | 94 | 91 | 90 | 90 | 96 | |||
| =14 | 459 | Don Nygord | USA | 554 | 94 | 92 | 94 | 91 | 91 | 92 | |||
| 16 | 297 | Seo In-Taek | KOR | 553 | 89 | 94 | 89 | 94 | 92 | 95 | |||
| 17 | 104 | Bernardo Tobar | COL | 552 | 95 | 93 | 92 | 93 | 85 | 94 | |||
| =18 | 57 | Tom Guinn | CAN | 551 | 89 | 91 | 94 | 92 | 94 | 91 | |||
| =18 | 267 | Chikafumi Hirai | JPN | 551 | 87 | 94 | 96 | 92 | 89 | 93 | |||
| =20 | 9 | Phil Adams | AUS | 550 | 96 | 89 | 87 | 96 | 88 | 94 | |||
| =20 | 3 | Ernesto Alaís | ARG | 550 | 93 | 88 | 94 | 93 | 92 | 90 | |||
| =20 | 4 | Walter Bauza | ARG | 550 | 89 | 90 | 87 | 94 | 97 | 93 | |||
| =23 | 167 | Gerhard Beyer | FRG | 548 | 91 | 91 | 93 | 90 | 92 | 91 | |||
| =23 | 117 | Galo Miño | ECU | 548 | 91 | 87 | 96 | 92 | 90 | 92 | |||
| =25 | 40 | Silvio Carvalho | BRA | 546 | 92 | 88 | 96 | 89 | 94 | 87 | |||
| =25 | 107 | Mariano Lara | CRC | 546 | 83 | 95 | 95 | 93 | 91 | 89 | |||
| =27 | 131 | Corsino Fernández | ESP | 543 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 91 | 90 | |||
| =27 | 202 | Arthur Spencer | GBR | 543 | 85 | 91 | 93 | 94 | 92 | 88 | |||
| =29 | 409 | Ove Gunnarsson | SWE | 540 | 91 | 92 | 88 | 92 | 85 | 92 | |||
| =29 | 278 | Shigetoshi Tashiro | JPN | 540 | 88 | 89 | 88 | 92 | 92 | 91 | |||
| =31 | 280 | Shuaib Adam | KEN | 539 | 89 | 90 | 89 | 91 | 89 | 91 | |||
| =31 | 229 | Baljit Singh Kharab | IND | 539 | 87 | 93 | 90 | 86 | 92 | 91 | |||
| =31 | 296 | Park Seung-Rin | KOR | 539 | 85 | 84 | 88 | 93 | 95 | 94 | |||
| =31 | 437 | Somchai Thingpakdee | THA | 539 | 92 | 93 | 90 | 87 | 92 | 85 | |||
| 35 | 307 | Sabiahmad Abdullah Ahad | MAS | 537 | 92 | 92 | 89 | 88 | 92 | 84 | |||
| =36 | 238 | Gary Aramist | ISR | 536 | 91 | 92 | 85 | 93 | 87 | 88 | |||
| =36 | 220 | Gilbert U | HKG | 536 | 89 | 92 | 89 | 91 | 90 | 85 | |||
| 38 | 102 | Luis Ortiz | COL | 535 | 86 | 87 | 91 | 89 | 91 | 91 | |||
| 39 | 363 | José Jacques Pena | POR | 533 | 90 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 95 | 87 | |||
| =40 | 397 | Herbert Binder | SUI | 532 | 86 | 89 | 93 | 90 | 88 | 86 | |||
| =40 | 470 | Edgar Espinoza | VEN | 532 | 88 | 90 | 83 | 92 | 91 | 88 | |||
| =40 | 354 | Pedro García Miro George | PER | 532 | 87 | 88 | 85 | 91 | 93 | 88 | |||
| 43 | 116 | Paúl Marggraff | ECU | 531 | 85 | 90 | 88 | 89 | 89 | 90 | |||
| 44 | 242 | Will Henderson | ISV | 528 | 86 | 89 | 88 | 91 | 89 | 85 | |||
| 45 | 327 | Rolf Lofstad | NOR | 523 | 87 | 83 | 88 | 85 | 90 | 90 | |||
| 46 | 201 | Geoffrey Robinson | GBR | 521 | 91 | 85 | 90 | 89 | 83 | 83 | |||
| 47 | 342 | Juma Al-Rahbi | OMA | 520 | 81 | 83 | 93 | 87 | 86 | 90 | |||
| =48 | 378 | Manhi Al-Mutairy | KSA | 513 | 77 | 84 | 89 | 88 | 90 | 85 | |||
| =48 | 319 | Jean-Pierre Gasparotti | MON | 513 | 76 | 87 | 88 | 90 | 87 | 85 | |||
| 50 | 320 | Joël Nigiono | MON | 505 | 83 | 79 | 88 | 87 | 84 | 84 | |||
| =51 | 385 | Germano Bollini | SMR | 500 | 84 | 84 | 83 | 78 | 84 | 87 | |||
| =51 | 387 | Gianfranco Giardi | SMR | 500 | 73 | 89 | 88 | 81 | 87 | 82 | |||
| 53 | 383 | Amadou Ciré Baal | SEN | 499 | 83 | 84 | 80 | 80 | 81 | 91 | |||
| 54 | 429 | Nirundon Lepananon | THA | 494 | 49 | 89 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 92 | |||
| 55 | 243 | Roland Scott | ISV | 459 | 68 | 74 | 82 | 86 | 80 | 69 | |||
| 56 | 337 | Ali Al-Ghafiri | OMA | 445 | 79 | 64 | 71 | 79 | 77 | 75 | |||
| 329 | Jens Nygård | NOR | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 344 | Vicente Bergues | PAR | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 347 | José Farres | PAR | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |