| Date | 26 November 1956 — 09:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Merrett Rifle Range, Williamstown, Victoria | |
| Format | Rapid-fire pistol. 200 shots. | |
| Olympic Record (300 m freestyle) | 4:05.4 / Lars Hall  SWE / 24 July 1952 / Details | |
| Olympic Record (4,000 m cross-country running) | 13:17.4 / Karl Leban  AUT / 6 August 1936 / Details | |
| Olympic Record (50 m Rapid-Fire Pistol) | 200 / Charles Leonard  USA / 4 August 1936 / Details | |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antonio Almada |  MEX | 960.0 | 193 | |||
| =2 | Igor Novikov |  URS | 920.0 | 191 | |||
| =2 | Gábor Benedek |  HUN | 920.0 | 191 | |||
| 4 | George Lambert | USA | 900.0 | 190 | |||
| =5 | Ole Mannonen |  FIN | 880.0 | 189 | |||
| =5 | Wäinö Korhonen | FIN | 880.0 | 189 | |||
| =5 | Aleksandr Tarasov | URS | 880.0 | 189 | |||
| =8 | Bill Andre | USA | 860.0 | 188 | |||
| =8 | Vladimír Černý |  TCH | 860.0 | 188 | |||
| =10 | János Bódy | HUN | 820.0 | 186 | |||
| =10 | Adriano Facchini |  ITA | 820.0 | 186 | |||
| =10 | Neville Sayers |  AUS | 820.0 | 186 | |||
| =13 | José Pérez | MEX | 800.0 | 185 | |||
| =13 | Jack Daniels | USA | 800.0 | 185 | |||
| =13 | David Romero | MEX | 800.0 | 185 | |||
| =16 | Ivan Deryugin | URS | 780.0 | 184 | |||
| =16 | Dumitru Țintea |  ROU | 780.0 | 184 | |||
| =16 | Okkie van Greunen |  RSA | 780.0 | 184 | |||
| =19 | Berndt Katter | FIN | 760.0 | 183 | |||
| =19 | Nilo Floody |  CHI | 760.0 | 183 | |||
| =19 | Sálvio Lemos |  BRA | 760.0 | 183 | |||
| =19 | Wenceslau Malta | BRA | 760.0 | 183 | |||
| 23 | Cornel Vena | ROU | 740.0 | 182 | |||
| =24 | Lars Hall | SWE | 720.0 | 181 | |||
| =24 | Antal Moldrich | HUN | 720.0 | 181 | |||
| =24 | Sven Coomer | AUS | 720.0 | 181 | |||
| 27 | Bertil Haase | SWE | 700.0 | 180 | |||
| 28 | Victor Teodorescu | ROU | 640.0 | 177 | |||
| =29 | Luis Riera |  ARG | 620.0 | 176 | |||
| =29 | Gerardo Cortés Rencoret | CHI | 620.0 | 176 | |||
| 31 | Don Cobley |  GBR | 560.0 | 173 | |||
| 32 | Terry Nicoll | AUS | 500.0 | 170 | |||
| 33 | Jean-Claude Hamel |  FRA | 480.0 | 169 | |||
| 34 | Tom Hudson | GBR | 440.0 | 167 | |||
| 35 | George Norman | GBR | 340.0 | 162 | |||
| 36 | Harry Schmidt | RSA | 0.0 | 142 |
