Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre pistol

Men's 50 metre pistol; at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Melbourne, Australia
Date	30 November
Competitors	33 from 22 nations
Medalists
	← 1952 1960 →

Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics
25 m rapid fire pistol	men
50 metre pistol	men
300 metre rifle	men
50 m rifle, three positions	men
50 m rifle, prone	men
100 m running deer	men
Trap	men

The men's 50 metre pistol was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics programme. It was the ninth appearance of the event. The competition was held on 30 November 1956 at the shooting ranges in Melbourne. 33 shooters from 22 nations competed.^[1]

Results

Place	Shooter	Total
1	Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN)	556
2	Makhmud Umarov (URS)	556
3	Offutt Pinion (USA)	551
4	Choji Hosaka (JPN)	550
5	Anton Yasynskiy (URS)	550
6	Torsten Ullman (SWE)	549
7	Åke Lindblom (SWE)	542
8	Len Tolhurst (AUS)	541
9	Claudio Fiorentini (ITA)	540
10	Frederick Cooper (GBR)	539
11	Joe Benner (USA)	537
12	František Maxa (TCH)	536
13	22x20px James Zavitz (CAN)	536
14	Enrique Hannaberg (COL)	534
15	Raúl Ibarra (MEX)	533
16	Kalle Sievänen (FIN)	526
17	Yoshihide Ueda (JPN)	526
18	Alberto Martijena (ARG)	526
19	Ignacio Cruzat (CHI)	524
20	Charles des Jammonières (FRA)	522
21	Rigoberto Fontt (CHI)	521
22	Antonio Vita (PER)	519
23	Marcel Lafortune (BEL)	518
24	22x20px Hector de Lima Polanco (VEN)	511
25	22x20px José Bernal (VEN)	508
26	Rodolfo Flores (MEX)	507
27	Rodney Johnson (AUS)	506
28	Henry Steele (GBR)	503
29	Francisco Otayza (PER)	503
30	22x20px Kim Yun-gi (KOR)	463
31	Zafar Ahmed Muhammad (PAK)	460
32	22x20px Ricardo Hizon (PHI)	456
33	Joseph Chong (MAL)	438