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Host City: München, West Germany
Venue(s): Shooting Range, Hochbrück, München
Date Started: August 27, 1972
Date Finished: August 27, 1972
Format: 50 metres. 60 shots in six series of 10. 600 possible.
| Gold: | Ragnar Skanåker |
| Silver: | Dan Iuga |
| Bronze: | Rudolf Dollinger |
The defending champion was the Soviet Grigory Kosykh, who also held the world record with 572. He competed at München but placed only eighth. The gold medal was an easy victory for Sweden’s Ragnar Skanåker, whose score of 567 was five points ahead of Romania’s Dan Iuga in second place. This was the first shooting event of the 1972 Olympics and brought Sweden its first shooting gold medal in 36 years. This was Skanåker’s first Olympics, but far from his last. He would compete continuously thru 1996, appearing in seven Olympic Games.
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | PTS | R1P | R2P | R3P | R4P | R5P | R6P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ragnar Skanåker | 38 | Sweden | SWE | Gold | 567 | 98 | 92 | 95 | 94 | 97 | 91 | OR |
| 2 | Dan Iuga | 26 | Romania | ROU | Silver | 562 | 93 | 92 | 92 | 95 | 96 | 94 | |
| 3 | Rudolf Dollinger | 28 | Austria | AUT | Bronze | 560 | 91 | 96 | 92 | 94 | 95 | 92 | |
| 4 | Rajmund Stachurski | 37 | Poland | POL | 559 | 91 | 88 | 99 | 95 | 92 | 94 | ||
| 5 | Harald Vollmar | 25 | East Germany | GDR | 558 | 93 | 93 | 94 | 93 | 93 | 92 | ||
| 6 | Hynek Hromada | 37 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 556 | 90 | 94 | 92 | 95 | 92 | 93 | ||
| 7 | Kornél Marosvári | 29 | Hungary | HUN | 555 | 90 | 90 | 93 | 92 | 94 | 96 | ||
| 8 | Grigory Kosykh | 38 | Soviet Union | URS | 555 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 93 | 93 | 90 | ||
| 9 | Gérard Denecheau | 33 | France | FRA | 554 | 92 | 92 | 90 | 95 | 92 | 93 | ||
| 10 | Kjell Jacobsson | 35 | Sweden | SWE | 554 | 92 | 91 | 93 | 94 | 92 | 92 | ||
| 11 | Dencho Denev | 36 | Bulgaria | BUL | 554 | 91 | 88 | 93 | 94 | 97 | 91 | ||
| 12 | Miroslav Štefan | 39 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 554 | 91 | 93 | 95 | 93 | 94 | 88 | ||
| 13 | John Rødseth | 25 | Norway | NOR | 553 | 91 | 93 | 94 | 93 | 92 | 90 | ||
| 14 | Frank Wyatt | 25 | Great Britain | GBR | 552 | 90 | 93 | 89 | 95 | 90 | 95 | ||
| 15 | Heinrich Fretwurst | 35 | West Germany | FRG | 551 | 90 | 92 | 94 | 93 | 91 | 91 | ||
| 16 | Heinz Mertel | 36 | West Germany | FRG | 550 | 92 | 91 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 94 | ||
| 17 | Vladimir Stolypin | 35 | Soviet Union | URS | 550 | 88 | 94 | 88 | 93 | 95 | 92 | ||
| 18 | Jean Faggion | 40 | France | FRA | 549 | 83 | 95 | 90 | 96 | 95 | 90 | ||
| 19 | Seppo Irjala | 34 | Finland | FIN | 548 | 95 | 92 | 89 | 93 | 90 | 89 | ||
| 20 | Pál Katkó | 33 | Hungary | HUN | 548 | 89 | 94 | 90 | 97 | 89 | 89 | ||
| 21 | Hubert Garschall | 32 | Austria | AUT | 548 | 91 | 91 | 93 | 95 | 90 | 88 | ||
| 22 | Shigetoshi Tashiro | 33 | Japan | JPN | 546 | 89 | 92 | 90 | 93 | 92 | 90 | ||
| 23 | Zbigniew Fedyczak | 20 | Poland | POL | 546 | 90 | 90 | 95 | 92 | 90 | 89 | ||
| 24 | Fatos Pilkati | 21 | Albania | ALB | 546 | 93 | 92 | 92 | 93 | 87 | 89 | ||
| 25 | Yoshihisa Yoshikawa | 35 | Japan | JPN | 545 | 94 | 90 | 87 | 91 | 92 | 91 | ||
| 26 | Immo Huhtinen | 39 | Finland | FIN | 545 | 93 | 89 | 93 | 87 | 94 | 89 | ||
| 27 | Gilberto Fernández | 39 | Colombia | COL | 544 | 90 | 88 | 93 | 86 | 91 | 96 | ||
| 28 | Jimmie Dorsey | 31 | United States | USA | 544 | 94 | 87 | 89 | 88 | 92 | 94 | ||
| 29 | Ivan Mandov | 21 | Bulgaria | BUL | 544 | 89 | 90 | 96 | 92 | 85 | 92 | ||
| 30 | Fernando Miranda | 33 | Puerto Rico | PUR | 543 | 89 | 91 | 91 | 93 | 91 | 88 | ||
| 31 | Harry Cullum | 42 | Great Britain | GBR | 542 | 87 | 93 | 87 | 90 | 93 | 92 | ||
| 32 | Edward Jans | 26 | Canada | CAN | 542 | 94 | 90 | 91 | 86 | 92 | 89 | ||
| 33 | Petar Bajić | 38 | Yugoslavia | YUG | 541 | 85 | 87 | 93 | 96 | 91 | 89 | ||
| 34 | Hershel Anderson | 35 | United States | USA | 540 | 91 | 92 | 88 | 91 | 90 | 88 | ||
| 35 | Tserenjavyn Ölziibayar | 26 | Mongolia | MGL | 539 | 89 | 93 | 87 | 89 | 91 | 90 | ||
| 36 | Bertino de Souza | 39 | Brazil | BRA | 539 | 86 | 93 | 89 | 90 | 92 | 89 | ||
| 37 | Sutham Aswanit | 40 | Thailand | THA | 539 | 87 | 93 | 89 | 91 | 90 | 89 | ||
| 38 | Dimitrios Kotronis | 40 | Greece | GRE | 539 | 93 | 86 | 97 | 84 | 92 | 87 | ||
| 39 | Tüdeviin Myagmarjav | 27 | Mongolia | MGL | 537 | 88 | 90 | 89 | 88 | 90 | 92 | ||
| 40 | Samak Majchainares | 49 | Thailand | THA | 537 | 89 | 89 | 89 | 96 | 87 | 87 | ||
| 41 | Severino Requejo | 30 | Spain | ESP | 536 | 88 | 93 | 86 | 85 | 89 | 95 | ||
| 42 | Juventino Sánchez | 27 | Mexico | MEX | 536 | 91 | 92 | 90 | 87 | 88 | 88 | ||
| 43 | Jorge Henao | 30 | Colombia | COL | 535 | 88 | 83 | 93 | 89 | 91 | 91 | ||
| 44 | Santiago Trompeta | 19 | Cuba | CUB | 535 | 93 | 87 | 89 | 91 | 87 | 88 | ||
| 45 | Jules Sobrian | 37 | Canada | CAN | 534 | 91 | 87 | 91 | 89 | 88 | 88 | ||
| 46 | Durval Guimarães | 37 | Brazil | BRA | 534 | 90 | 87 | 92 | 88 | 93 | 84 | ||
| 47 | Arturo Macapagal | 29 | Philippines | PHI | 533 | 88 | 88 | 90 | 88 | 88 | 91 | ||
| 48 | Santiago Machuca | 43 | Puerto Rico | PUR | 533 | 91 | 88 | 91 | 84 | 92 | 87 | ||
| 49 | Ho Minh Thu | 43 | South Vietnam | VNM | 524 | 80 | 89 | 93 | 86 | 83 | 93 | ||
| 50 | Teodoro Kalaw | 25 | Philippines | PHI | 524 | 82 | 83 | 92 | 90 | 88 | 89 | ||
| 51 | Afërdita Tusha | 26 | Albania | ALB | 522 | 85 | 94 | 87 | 83 | 87 | 86 | ||
| 52 | André Zoltan | 27 | Belgium | BEL | 521 | 88 | 85 | 85 | 91 | 87 | 85 | ||
| 53 | Jaime Sánchez | 45 | Bolivia | BOL | 514 | 84 | 91 | 89 | 88 | 79 | 83 | ||
| 54 | John Harun | 24 | Kenya | KEN | 512 | 86 | 83 | 85 | 90 | 85 | 83 | ||
| 55 | André Antunes | 49 | Portugal | POR | 510 | 83 | 85 | 90 | 85 | 81 | 86 | ||
| 56 | Hương Hoàng Thi | South Vietnam | VNM | 487 | 80 | 77 | 80 | 85 | 84 | 81 | |||
| 57 | José Álvarez | 45 | United States Virgin Islands | ISV | 486 | 76 | 81 | 85 | 85 | 76 | 83 | ||
| 58 | Abdul Rahman Omar | 26 | Kenya | KEN | 474 | 73 | 84 | 79 | 78 | 73 | 87 | ||
| 59 | Owen Phillips | 66 | Belize | BIZ | 376 | 49 | 70 | 57 | 61 | 73 | 66 |