Date | 8 – 9 September 1960 — 9:00 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Poligono Umberto I, Roma | |
Participants | 57 from 35 countries | |
Format | 50 metres. 60 shots in two courses of 30. 600 possible. |
This competition resulted in a three-way tie for first between the defending champion in free pistol, Finland’s Pentti Linnosvuo, the United States’s Bill McMillan, and Aleksandr Zabelin of the Soviet Union. The barrage was shot in three 5-shot strings with a 4-second time limit. McMillan scored 147 in the barrage, easily distancing Linnosvuo by eight points to win the gold medal.