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Host City: Los Angeles, United States
Venue(s): Los Angeles Police Pistol Range, Elysian Park, Los Angeles, California
Date Started: August 13, 1932
Date Finished: August 13, 1932
Format: 50 metres prone. 30 shots. 300 possible.
| Gold: | Bertil Rönnmark |
| Silver: | Gustavo Huet |
| Bronze: | Zoltán Soós-Ruszka Hradetzky |
There were 14 firing points at the rifle range, and with 26 in the event, the English Match was fired in two relays. During the first relay, Hungary’s Antal Barát-Lemberkovits shot one round at the wrong target. The shot scored a 10 on the wrong target. The error eventually cost Barát-Lemberkovits the gold medal, as he finished 9 points out of the gold medal. Bertil Rönnmark (SWE), a pharmacist, and Gustavo Huet (MEX), a student, tied for first with 294 and shot-off for the gold medal, with Rönnmark winning. Rönnmark used a Danish rifle and ammunition, while Huet used American equipment. After the shooting, Swedes Rönnmark and Andersson (5th) had given their left-over bullets to friends. When they both made a shoot-off, they had to track back their ammo, risking elimination without bullets.
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | PTS | SO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bertil Rönnmark | 26 | Sweden | SWE | Gold | 294 | ||
| 2 | Gustavo Huet | 19 | Mexico | MEX | Silver | 294 | ||
| 3 | Zoltán Soós-Ruszka Hradetzky | 30 | Hungary | HUN | Bronze | 293 | ||
| 4 | Mario Zorzi | 22 | Italy | ITA | 293 | |||
| 5 | Gustaf Andersson | 46 | Sweden | SWE | 292 | 296 | ||
| 6 | William Harding | 21 | United States | USA | 292 | |||
| 7 | Francisco António Real | 46 | Portugal | POR | 292 | |||
| 8 | Karl August Larsson | 26 | Sweden | SWE | 292 | |||
| 9 | Julio Castro | 52 | Spain | ESP | 291 | |||
| 10 | Carlos Guerrero | Mexico | MEX | 290 | ||||
| 11T | Tibor Tary | 22 | Hungary | HUN | 289 | |||
| 11T | Gustavo Salinas | Mexico | MEX | 289 | ||||
| 13T | Ugo Cantelli | 29 | Italy | ITA | 288 | |||
| 13T | Edward Shumaker | 36 | United States | USA | 288 | |||
| 15 | Rom Stanifer | 28 | United States | USA | 287 | |||
| 16T | Antonio Daneri | 47 | Argentina | ARG | 286 | |||
| 16T | Amedeo Bruni | 25 | Italy | ITA | 286 | |||
| 18 | Antal Barát-Lemberkovits | Hungary | HUN | 285 | ||||
| 19 | Manoel Braga | 30 | Brazil | BRA | 284 | |||
| 20T | Manuel Guerra | Portugal | POR | 282 | ||||
| 20T | Antônio Guimarães | 32 | Brazil | BRA | 282 | |||
| 22 | Sigfrido Vogel | Argentina | ARG | 281 | ||||
| 23 | José Maria Ferreira | Portugal | POR | 279 | ||||
| 24 | José Castro | Brazil | BRA | 277 | ||||
| 25 | Buenaventura Bagaria | Spain | ESP | 274 | ||||
| 26 | Manuel Corrales | 35 | Spain | ESP | 268 |