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Host City: Moskva, Soviet Union
Venue(s): Dynamo Shooting Range, Mytishchi
Date Started: July 22, 1980
Date Finished: July 22, 1980
Format: Rapid-fire pistol. 200 shots.
| Gold: | Anatoly Starostin |
| Silver: | Tamás Szombathelyi |
| Bronze: | Pavel Lednyov |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | S | P | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Horvath | 20 | Sweden | SWE | 200 | 0 | 1,132 | |
| 2 | Anatoly Starostin | 20 | Soviet Union | URS | 199 | 0 | 1,110 | |
| 3T | Tamás Szombathelyi | 27 | Hungary | HUN | 198 | 0 | 1,088 | |
| 3T | Lennart Pettersson | 29 | Sweden | SWE | 198 | 0 | 1,088 | |
| 3T | Milan Kadlec | 21 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 198 | 0 | 1,088 | |
| 3T | Jussi Pelli | 25 | Finland | FIN | 198 | 0 | 1,088 | |
| 3T | Simeon Monev | 23 | Bulgaria | BUL | 198 | 0 | 1,088 | |
| 8T | Heikki Hulkkonen | 25 | Finland | FIN | 197 | 0 | 1,066 | |
| 8T | Paul Four | 24 | France | FRA | 197 | 0 | 1,066 | |
| 8T | Jan Bártů | 25 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 197 | 0 | 1,066 | |
| 8T | Nikolay Nikolov | 26 | Bulgaria | BUL | 197 | 0 | 1,066 | |
| 12 | Joël Bouzou | 24 | France | FRA | 196 | 0 | 1,044 | |
| 13T | Pavel Lednyov | 37 | Soviet Union | URS | 195 | 0 | 1,022 | |
| 13T | Federico Galera | 27 | Spain | ESP | 195 | 0 | 1,022 | |
| 13T | Gyula Galovici | 24 | Romania | ROU | 195 | 0 | 1,022 | |
| 16T | Svante Rasmuson | 24 | Sweden | SWE | 194 | 0 | 1,000 | |
| 16T | Danny Nightingale | 26 | Great Britain | GBR | 194 | 0 | 1,000 | |
| 16T | Peter Whiteside | 28 | Great Britain | GBR | 194 | 0 | 1,000 | |
| 16T | Alexander Topay | 24 | Austria | AUT | 194 | 0 | 1,000 | |
| 20T | Janusz Pyciak-Peciak | 31 | Poland | POL | 193 | 0 | 978 | |
| 20T | Jan Olesiński | 23 | Poland | POL | 193 | 0 | 978 | |
| 20T | Alain Cortes | 28 | France | FRA | 193 | 0 | 978 | |
| 20T | Pekka Santanen | 22 | Finland | FIN | 193 | 0 | 978 | |
| 20T | Jens Lohmann | 24 | Mexico | MEX | 193 | 0 | 978 | |
| 20T | Helmut Wieser | 26 | Austria | AUT | 193 | 0 | 978 | |
| 26T | Tibor Maracskó | 31 | Hungary | HUN | 192 | 0 | 956 | |
| 26T | László Horváth | 34 | Hungary | HUN | 192 | 0 | 956 | |
| 28T | Pierpaolo Cristofori | 24 | Italy | ITA | 191 | 0 | 934 | |
| 28T | Borislav Batikov | 21 | Bulgaria | BUL | 191 | 0 | 934 | |
| 28T | Jerome Hartigan | 22 | Ireland | IRL | 191 | 0 | 934 | |
| 31T | Ivar Sisniega | 22 | Mexico | MEX | 190 | 0 | 912 | |
| 31T | Dumitru Spîrlea | 29 | Romania | ROU | 190 | 0 | 912 | |
| 33T | Marek Bajan | 23 | Poland | POL | 189 | 0 | 890 | |
| 33T | Bohumil Starnovský | 26 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 191 | 44 | 890 | |
| 33T | José Serrano | 23 | Spain | ESP | 189 | 0 | 890 | |
| 33T | Manuel Montesinos | 22 | Spain | ESP | 189 | 0 | 890 | |
| 33T | Mark Hartigan | 24 | Ireland | IRL | 189 | 0 | 890 | |
| 38T | Robert Barrie | 28 | Australia | AUS | 187 | 0 | 846 | |
| 38T | Brian Newth | 33 | New Zealand | NZL | 187 | 0 | 846 | |
| 40T | Yevgeny Lipeyev | 22 | Soviet Union | URS | 186 | 0 | 824 | |
| 40T | Nigel Clark | 24 | Great Britain | GBR | 186 | 0 | 824 | |
| 42 | Sackville Currie | 24 | Ireland | IRL | 184 | 0 | 780 | |
| 43 | Cezar Răducanu | 22 | Romania | ROU | 172 | 0 | 516 |