ISSF 25 meter rapid fire pistol
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union ( URS ) 12 3 3 18
2 China ( CHN ) 6 5 2 13
3 Germany ( GER ) 5 5 3 13
4 United States ( USA ) 3 5 3 11
5 Poland ( POL ) 3 2 0 5
6 Italy ( ITA ) 3 1 3 7
7 West Germany ( FRG ) 2 2 1 5
8 Sweden ( SWE ) 2 1 2 5
9 Argentina ( ARG ) 2 0 2 4
10 Romania ( ROU ) 1 4 3 8
11 Finland ( FIN ) 1 3 5 9
12 Czechoslovakia ( TCH ) 1 3 0 4
13 Hungary ( HUN ) 1 2 3 6
14 Russia ( RUS ) 1 2 1 4
15 East Germany ( GDR ) 1 0 3 4
16 France ( FRA ) 1 0 1 2
16 South Korea ( KOR ) 1 0 1 2
18 Latvia ( LAT ) 1 0 0 1
19 Lithuania ( LTU ) 0 3 1 4
20 Spain ( ESP ) 0 1 2 3
World Championships , total medals
25 metre rapid fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events and is shot with .22 LR pistols. The event has been a part of the Olympic program ever since the beginning in 1896, although its rules changed greatly before World War II, after which they were only slightly changed until the two major revisions of 1989 and 2005. The latter restricted the event to sport pistols, thereby banning .22 Short cartridges as well as encircling grips and low trigger-pull weight. This caused a decline in results, as evidenced by a comparison of the world records under the pre-2005 rules (597) and post-2005 rules (593). Instead of dropping specialized rapid fire pistols, manufacturers designed new pistols, such as the Walther SSP, conforming to the standard pistol requirements, but optimized for the rapid fire event.