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Rapid-Fire Pistol (25 metres), Men

Date	4 – 5 December 1956 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Merrett Rifle Range, Williamstown, Victoria
Participants	35 from 22 countries
Format	50 metres. 60 shots in two courses of 30. 600 possible. Placement determined by hits on target with tie-breaking by points.

The defending champion, Károly Takács (HUN), but would finish only eighth. The event was won by Ştefan Petrescu of Romania, with Yevgeny Cherkasov (URS) placing second. The bronze medal went to Romania’s Gheorghe Lichiardopol, who had also finished third in rapid-fire in 1952. The range for this event was not fully installed until a day before the event, which prevented the shooters from getting in much practice. Finland’s Pentti Linnosvuo, who lost the shoot-off for bronze, was not prepared for the tie-break, and was only found in a barbershop.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Targets Hit	Points	Round #1 Targets Hit	Round #1 Points	Round #2 Course #1 Points	Round #2 Course #2 Points	Round #2 Course #3 Points	Round #2 Targets Hit	Round #2 Points	Round #1 Course #1 Points	Round #1 Course #2 Points	Round #1 Course #3 Points
1	Ștefan Petrescu	ROU	60	587	30	294	99	99	96	30	293	98	100	95	Gold	OR
2	Yevgeny Cherkasov	URS	60	585	30	292	100	100	92	30	293	99	97	97	Silver
3	Gheorghe Lichiardopol	ROU	60	581	30	294	96	100	98	30	287	97	99	91	Bronze
4	Pentti Linnosvuo	FIN	60	581	30	290	97	98	95	30	291	97	98	96
5	Óscar Cervo	ARG	60	580	30	289	98	96	95	30	291	100	97	94
6	Szilárd Kun	HUN	60	578	30	288	98	96	94	30	290	99	97	94
7	Kalle Sievänen	FIN	60	576	30	286	97	94	95	30	290	95	97	98
8	Károly Takács	HUN	60	575	30	285	98	95	92	30	290	99	94	97
9	John Beaumont	USA	60	572	30	284	98	94	92	30	288	97	95	96
10	Carlos Monteverde	VEN	60	572	30	290	96	99	95	30	282	93	95	94
11	Alfonso Castañeda	MEX	60	571	30	285	96	96	93	30	286	97	95	94
12	Michelangelo Borriello	ITA	60	567	30	284	94	96	94	30	283	98	94	91
13	John Forman	USA	60	566	30	280	93	94	93	30	286	96	97	93
14	Miguel Emmanuelli	PUR	60	563	30	280	93	99	88	30	283	96	95	92
15	Choji Hosaka	JPN	60	563	30	281	97	96	88	30	282	98	94	90
16	Pedro Simão	BRA	60	561	30	280	98	96	86	30	281	95	95	91
17	Guillermo Cornejo	PER	60	560	30	278	94	94	90	30	282	96	96	90
18	Adhaury Rocha	BRA	60	556	30	283	97	98	88	30	273	96	93	84
19	Rodolfo Flores	MEX	60	556	30	272	93	93	86	30	284	98	92	94
20	Carlos Crassus	VEN	60	555	30	275	96	90	89	30	280	99	95	86
21	Vangelis Chrysafis	GRE	60	553	30	275	97	88	90	30	278	98	94	86
22	Martin Gison	PHI	60	551	30	268	96	92	80	30	283	97	94	92
23	Henry Steele	GBR	60	551	30	276	94	93	89	30	275	93	89	93
24	Vasily Sorokin	URS	59	567	29	276	96	97	83	30	291	99	97	95
25	James Zavitz	CAN	59	547	30	274	95	91	88	29	273	100	86	87
26	Armando López-Torres	PER	59	540	29	263	84	95	84	30	277	98	89	90
27	Charles des Jamonières	FRA	59	529	30	267	93	96	78	29	262	90	90	82
28	Johnnie Maitland	AUS	59	526	29	256	90	88	78	30	270	97	91	82
29	Eleazar Guzmán	CHI	59	525	30	268	92	93	83	29	257	90	91	76
30	Lukman Saketi	INA	59	522	29	255	86	89	80	30	267	95	86	86
31	Yoshihide Ueda	JPN	59	521	30	262	88	90	84	29	259	90	94	75
32	Enrique Hanabergh	COL	58	533	30	274	87	97	90	28	259	83	94	82
33	Ignacio Cruzat	CHI	58	528	28	249	93	79	77	30	279	91	95	93
34	Fred Cooper	GBR	55	486	29	261	91	96	74	26	225	85	77	63
35	Peter Papps	AUS	55	469	29	256	88	84	84	26	213	85	80	48