Olympic and World Champions
Further information: List of Olympic medalists in shooting: 25 metre rapid fire pistolThe dominant shooter of the event has been Ralf Schumann of Germany with a total of five major World-leve Championship titles, with three Olympic gold medals and two Individual World titles. He is also the only shooter who has won a particular Olympic event three times, and is the first of three shooters to have won three individual Olympic titles. Karoly Takacs and Jozef Zapedzki also won two consecutive Olympic titles. Huelet Benner won two consecutive World Championships.
A rare double is that between this rapid fire event and its direct opposite 50 metre pistol; this has only been accomplished by Alfred Lane (completed in 1912), Torsten Ullman (1939), Huelet Benner (1952) and Pentti Linnosvuo (1964), with Lane (both events at the 1912 Olympics) and Linnosvuo using only Olympic titles. Benner, on the other hand, is the only shooter with two titles in both events.
| Year | Venue | Individual | Team | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | Athens | Ioannis Frangoudis (GRE) | |||
| 1900 | Paris | Maurice Larrouy (FRA) | |||
| 1912 | Stockholm | Alfred Lane (USA) | Sweden | ||
| 1920 | Antwerp | Guilherme Paraense (BRA) | United States | ||
| 1924 | Paris | Henry Bailey (USA) | |||
| 1932 | Los Angeles | Renzo Morigi (ITA) | |||
| 1933 | Granada | Charles des Jammonières (FRA) | |||
| 1935 | Rome | Walter Boninsegni (ITA) | |||
| 1936 | Berlin | Cornelius van Oyen (GER) | |||
| 1937 | Helsinki | Karlis Klava (LAT) | Finland | ||
| 1939 | Luzern | Torsten Ullman (SWE) | Hungary | ||
| 1947 | Stockholm | Carlos Enrique Diaz Saenz Valiente (ARG) | Italy | ||
| 1948 | London | Károly Takács (HUN) | |||
| 1949 | Buenos Aires | Huelet Benner (USA) | Argentina | ||
| 1952 | Oslo | Huelet Benner (USA) | United States | ||
| 1952 | Helsinki | Károly Takács (HUN) | |||
| 1954 | Caracas | Nikolai Kalinichenko (URS) | Soviet Union | ||
| 1956 | Melbourne | Ştefan Petrescu (ROU) | |||
| 1958 | Moscow | Alexander Kropotin (URS) | Soviet Union | ||
| 1960 | Rome | William McMillan (USA) | |||
| 1962 | Cairo | Alexander Zabelin (URS) | Soviet Union | ||
| 1964 | Tokyo | Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN) | |||
| 1966 | Wiesbaden | Virgil Atanasiu (ROU) | Soviet Union | ||
| 1968 | Mexico City | Józef Zapędzki (POL) | |||
| 1970 | Phoenix | Giovanni Liverzani (ITA) | Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1972 | Munich | Józef Zapędzki (POL) | |||
| 1974 | Thun | Alfred Radke (FRG) | Soviet Union | ||
| 1976 | Montreal | Norbert Klaar (GDR) | |||
| 1978 | Seoul | Ove Gunnarsson (SWE) | West Germany | ||
| 1980 | Moscow | Corneliu Ion (ROU) | |||
| 1982 | Caracas | Igor Puzirev (URS) | Soviet Union | ||
| 1984 | Los Angeles | Takeo Kamachi (JPN) | |||
| 1986 | Suhl | Adam Kaczmarek (POL) | Soviet Union | ||
| 1988 | Seoul | Afanasijs Kuzmins (URS) | |||
| 1990 | Moscow | Ralf Schumann (GDR) | Soviet Union | Juniors | |
| 1992 | Barcelona | Ralf Schumann (GER) | Individual | Team | |
| 1994 | Milan | Krzysztof Kucharczyk (POL) | Poland | Joseph Gonzalez (USA) | Germany |
| 1996 | Atlanta | Ralf Schumann (GER) | |||
| 1998 | Barcelona | Ralf Schumann (GER) | Germany | Jorge Llames (ESP) | Germany |
| 2000 | Sydney | Sergei Alifirenko (RUS) | |||
| 2002 | Lahti | Marco Spangenberg (GER) | Germany | Martin Behrendt (GER) | Germany |
| 2004 | Athens | Ralf Schumann (GER) | |||
| 2006 | Zagreb | Zhang Penghui (CHN) | China | Christian Reitz (GER) | Russia |
| 2008 | Beijing | Oleksandr Petriv (UKR) | |||
| 2010 | Munich | Alexei Klimov (RUS) | China | Zhou Zhiguo (CHN) | China |
| 2012 | London | Leuris Pupo (CUB) | |||
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