Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre air pistol

The men's 10 metre air pistol made its Olympic debut at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Erich Buljung equalled the world record (held by Vladas Turla and Igor Basinski) of 590 points in the qualification round, acquiring a two-point lead over the new 50 metre champion, Sorin Babii. Neither of them performed a good final however, and Tanyu Kiryakov eliminated his entire five-point gap to first place. The tie between Kiryakov and Buljung was resolved on grounds of higher final score, with Kiryakov becoming the inaugural champion. Xu Haifeng surpassed Babii to win bronze.

Men's 10 metre air pistol at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date	September 24, 1988
Competitors	44 from 29 nations
Winning score	687.9 (OR)
Medalists
Tanyu Kiryakov  Bulgaria Erich Buljung  United States Xu Haifeng  China

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Erich Buljung	United States	590	Q EWR OR
2	Sorin Babii	Romania	588	Q
3	Tanyu Kiryakov	Bulgaria	585	Q
4	Xu Haifeng	China	584	Q
5	Igor Basinski	Soviet Union	583	Q
6	Miroslav Růžička	Czechoslovakia	582	Q
7	Jerzy Pietrzak	Poland	582	Q
8	Boris Kokorev	Soviet Union	581	Q (6th: 99)
9	Gernot Eder	East Germany	581	(6th: 96)
10	Jens Potteck	East Germany	580
11	Ragnar Skanåker	Sweden	580
12	Philippe Cola	France	579
12	Mamoru Inagaki	Japan	579
12	Arndt Kaspar	West Germany	579
15	Phillip Adams	Australia	578
15	Bengt Kamis	Sweden	578
15	Wang Yifu	China	578
18	Alfons Messerschmitt	West Germany	577
18	Sakari Paasonen	Finland	577
18	Dario Palazzani	Italy	577
18	Park Jong-sin	South Korea	577
22	Rolf Beutler	Switzerland	576
23	Pierre Bremond	France	575
23	Lyubtcho Diakov	Bulgaria	575
23	Hubert Foidl	Denmark	575
23	Min Young-sam	South Korea	575
23	Fumihisa Semizuki	Japan	575
28	Don Nygord	United States	574
29	Bernardo Tovar	Colombia	573
29	Tu Tai-hsing	Chinese Taipei	573
31	Lisandro Sugezky	Argentina	572
31	Tamás Tóth	Hungary	572
33	Jean Bogaerts	Belgium	571
34	Horst Krasser	Austria	569
34	Paul Leatherdale	Great Britain	569
34	Konstantinos Panageas	Greece	569
37	Bengt Sandstrom	Australia	568
38	Zoltán Papanitz	Hungary	567
39	Jouni Vainio	Finland	566
40	Hans Hierzer	Austria	565
40	Carlos Hora	Peru	565
42	Mariano Lara	Costa Rica	563
43	Vincenzo Tondo	Italy	559
44	Shuaib Adam	Kenya	556
	Jose Pena	Portugal		DNS

DNS Did not start – EWR Equalled world record – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Erich Buljung with his silver medal

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
	Tanyu Kiryakov (BUL)	585	102.9	687.9	OR
	Erich Buljung (USA)	590	97.9	687.9	OR
	Xu Haifeng (CHN)	584	100.5	684.5
4	Sorin Babii (ROU)	588	95.3	683.3
5	Igor Basinski (URS)	583	100.2	683.2
6	Miroslav Růžička (TCH)	582	99.4	681.4
7	Jerzy Pietrzak (POL)	582	96.3	678.3
8	Boris Kokorev (URS)	581	96.3	678.3

OR Olympic record

Sources

• XXIVth Olympiad Seoul 1988 Official Report – Volume 2 Part 2 (PDF). Retrieved 2008-09-28.