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Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 metres, Open

Date	31 August – 1 September 1972 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Schießanlage, Hochbrück, München
Participants	62 from 39 countries
Format	50 metres. 60 shots in three courses of 20. 600 possible.

Poland’s Józef Zapędzki set an Olympic record of 595 to defend his gold medal, the first shooter to defend in this event since Hungary’s Károly Takács in 1948-52. Wallechinsky noted in The Complete Book of the Olympics, “After the competition Zapędzki visited nearby Dachau and laid a wreath at the grave of his father, who had been killed by the Nazis thirty years earlier.”

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Round 1 Points	Round 2 Points	Round 3 Points
1	–	Józef Zapędzki	POL	595	200	199	196	Gold	OR
2	–	Ladislav Falta	TCH	594	200	197	197	Silver
3	–	Viktor Torshin	URS	593	199	197	197	Bronze
4	–	Paul Buser	SUI	592	198	197	197
5	–	Jaime González	ESP	592	196	200	196
6	–	Giovanni Liverzani	ITA	591	199	197	195
7	–	Dencho Denev	BUL	590	198	196	196
8	–	Gerhard Petritsch	AUT	590	198	196	196
9	–	Vladimír Hurt	TCH	590	200	198	192
10	–	Jim McNally	USA	589	195	198	196
11	–	Helmut Seeger	FRG	589	198	197	194
12	–	Dan Iuga	ROU	589	198	196	195
13	–	Immo Huhtinen	FIN	589	199	198	192
14	–	Zbigniew Fedyczak	POL	587	197	199	191
15	–	Damián Cerdá	ESP	586	196	196	194
16	–	Erwin Glock	FRG	586	198	197	191
17	–	Thor-Øistein Endsjø	NOR	586	199	196	191
18	–	Alexander Taransky	AUS	586	198	197	191
19	–	John Cooke	GBR	585	197	192	196
20	–	Arturo Costa	CUB	583	194	194	195
21	–	Christian Düring	GDR	583	197	194	192
22	–	Solos Nalampoon	THA	583	197	196	190
23	–	Szilárd Kun	HUN	583	198	195	190
24	–	Igor Bakalov	URS	583	200	199	184
25	–	Ion Tripșa	ROU	582	197	198	187
26	–	Jean Baumann	FRA	582	195	196	191
27	–	Seppo Mäkinen	FIN	582	199	197	186
28	–	Bruce McMillan	NZL	582	197	195	190
29	–	Jules Sobrian	CAN	582	195	197	190
30	–	Kanji Kubo	JPN	582	194	197	191
31	–	Curt Andersson	SWE	582	199	197	186
32	–	Hubert Garschall	AUT	581	198	196	187
33	–	Takeo Kamachi	JPN	580	199	199	182
34	–	Tony Clark	GBR	579	197	190	192
35	–	Jean-Richard Germont	FRA	579	199	195	185
36	–	André Antunes	POR	578	189	197	192
37	–	Homero Laddaga	MEX	578	197	192	189
38	–	Michel Braun	LUX	577	197	196	184
39	–	Tüdeviin Myagmarjav	MGL	577	195	195	187
40	–	Luis Colina	COL	577	193	196	188
41	–	Bill Hare	CAN	577	195	193	189
42	–	Ivan Mandov	BUL	576	198	199	179
43	–	Víctor Francis	VEN	573	192	193	188
44	–	Lennart Christensen	DEN	573	194	192	187
45	–	Bill McMillan	USA	572	199	195	178
46	–	Rangsit Yanothai	THA	571	196	187	188
47	–	Bruno Morri	SMR	570	195	191	184
48	–	Nelson Torno	ARG	569	190	194	185
49	–	Roberto Ferraris	ITA	568	197	196	175
50	–	Víctor Castellanos	GUA	567	192	191	184
51	–	Guillermo Martínez	COL	564	192	195	177
52	–	Simón González	PUR	563	193	192	178
53	–	Rafael Recto	PHI	553	188	185	180
54	–	Mario Sánchez	MEX	551	197	187	167
55	–	Leonard Bull	KEN	548	191	186	171
56	–	José Luis Rosales	ESA	543	192	186	165
57	–	Tom Ong	PHI	533	185	180	168
58	–	Peter Laurence	KEN	533	189	172	172
59	–	Bob McAuliffe	ISV	494	180	182	132
60	–	Kurt Rey	SUI	440	196	147	97
DNF	–	Roberto Tamagnini	SMR	–	–	–	–
DNF	–	Fernando Miranda	PUR	–	–	–	–