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{{Short description|International Shooting Sports Federation shooting event}}
{{One source|date=March 2022}}

{{Infobox shooting sport
| name          = 25Metre Rapid Fire Pistol
| image         = Sanderson9209 (28322239393).jpg
| shots_m       = 2×30 + 40
| shots_f       = 
| shots_mix     = 
| olympics_m    = Since 1896
| olympics_f    = 
| olympics_mix  = 
| worlds_m      = Since 1933
| worlds_f      = 
| worlds_mix    = 
| abbr_m        = RFP
| abbr_f        = 
| abbr_mix        = 
}}

'''25 meter rapid fire pistol''' is one of the [[ISSF shooting events]] and is shot with [[.22 Long Rifle|.22 LR]] pistols. The event has been a part of the [[Olympic Games|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 pistol]]s, thereby banning [[.22 Short]] cartridge (last used in 2004 and replaced by [[.22 Long Rifle]] in 2005) 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.

== Course of fire ==
[[Image:ISSF Rapid Fire Pistol targets.png|thumb|The centers of the targets are 75 cm apart, and the 10 score zone has a diameter of 10 cm.]]
[[Image:ISSF 25 meter Rapid Fire Pistol target.svg|thumb|When paper targets (as opposed to [[electronic scoring system]]s) are used, thin scoring rings are printed on the target. The thick aiming lines are present in both versions.]]

Traditionally, RFP competitions use paper targets that are able to turn 90 degrees to appear to the shooter and then turn back to disappear when the shooting time is up. During the last few decades, these targets have gradually been replaced by electronic devices which use red and green lights to indicate the beginning and the end of the shooting time, and which automatically handle late shots. As these systems are expensive, they are normally only used in international competitions.

A ''series'' (or ''string'') consists of five shots fired at one target each within a limited time. The targets stand next to each other at a 25 m distance from the shooter. As with all [[International Shooting Sport Federation|ISSF]] pistol disciplines, all firing must be done with one unsupported hand. When the targets appear or when the green light comes on, the competitor must raise his arm from a 45-degree angle starting position and fire his five shots. If a shot is too late, it will score as a miss.

There are three different time limits for the series: 8 seconds, 6 seconds, and 4 seconds. A stage consists of two series of each type, and a full course of fire comprises two such stages, or a total of 60 shots. Since the targets are divided into [[concentric]] score zones with 10 being the most central part, the total maximum score is 600.

In major competitions, the top six shooters qualify for a [[Final (competition)|final]] round of four additional 4-second series, with a shot scoring at or above 9.7 being counted as a hit, or a miss otherwise.  To score 9.7 or above, the shot must be within a circle of diameter 124 mm (4.88 inches). The results of the qualification round and the final are added together, and any ties are broken by firing an additional 4-second series.

== World Championships, Men==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Place
! style="background:gold"    width="210" | Gold
! style="background:silver"  width="210" | Silver
! style="background:#cc9966" width="210" | Bronze
|-
|1933
|{{flagicon|ESP|1931}} [[Granada]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Andre Charles Des Jamonnieres J.]]|FRA}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Cristobal Tauler Alos]]|ESP|1931}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Luis Calvet Sandoz]]|ESP|1931}}
|-
|1935
|{{flagicon|ITA|1861}} Rome
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Walter Boninsegni]]|ITA|1861}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[František Pokorný]]|TCH}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Arturo Gonzalez Costello]]|ESP|1931}}
|-
|1937
|{{flagicon|FIN}} [[Helsinki]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Kārlis Kļava]]|LAT}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Pranas Giedrimas]]|LTU|1918}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Erik Ljungqvist]]|FIN}}
|-
|1939
|{{flagicon|SUI}} [[Luzern]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Torsten Ullman]]|SWE}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Cornelius van Oyen]]|GER|Nazi}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Jonas Miliauskas]]|LTU|1918}}
|-
|1947
|{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Stockholm]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente]]|ARG}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Constantin Mylonas]]|GRE|old}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Sven Lundquist]]|SWE}}
|-
|1949
|{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Buenos Aires]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Huelet Benner]]|USA|1912}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Harry Wendell Reeves]]|USA|1912}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Leonard Ravilo]]|FIN}}
|-
|1952
|{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Oslo]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Huelet Benner]]|USA|1912}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Penait Calcai]]|ROM|1952}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente]]|ARG}}
|-
|1954
|{{flagicon|VEN|1930}} [[Caracas]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Nikolai Kalinichenko]]|URS}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[William McMillan (sport shooter)|William McMillan]]|USA|1912}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Pentti Linnosvuo]]|FIN}}
|-
|1958
|{{flagicon|URS}} Moscow
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Aleksandr Kropotin]]|URS}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Alexander Zabelin]]|URS}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Ștefan Petrescu]]|ROM|1952}}
|-
|1962
|{{flagicon|Egypt|1958}} [[Cairo]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Alexander Zabelin]]|URS}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Igor Bakalov]]|URS}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[James Henderson McNally]]|USA}}
|-
|1966
|{{flagicon|FRG}} [[Wiesbaden]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Virgil Atanasiu]]|ROM}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Józef Zapędzki]]|POL}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Renart Suleimanov]]|URS}}
|-
|1970
|{{flagicon|USA}} [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Giovanni Liverzani]]|ITA}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Ladislav Falta]]|TCH}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Weselin Petkov]]|BUL|1967}}
|-
|1974
|{{flagicon|SUI}} [[Thun]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Alfred Radke]]|FRG}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Heinz Weissenberger]]|FRG}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Viktor Torshin]]|URS}}
|-
|1978
|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Seoul]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Ove Gunnarsson]]|SWE}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Werner Beier]]|FRG}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Gerhard Petritsch]]|AUT}}
|-
|1982
|{{flagicon|VEN|1930}} [[Caracas]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Igor Puzirev]]|URS}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Ove Gunnarsson]]|SWE}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Alfred Radke]]|FRG}}
|-
|1986
|{{flagicon|GDR}} [[Suhl]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Adam Kaczmarek]]|POL}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Andrzej Macur]]|POL}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Ralf Schumann]]|GDR}}
|-
|1990
|{{flagicon|URS}} Moscow
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Ralf Schumann]]|GDR}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Miroslav Ignatiuk]]|URS}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Petri Eteläniemi]]|FIN}}
|-
|1994
|{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Milan]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Krzysztof Kucharczyk]]|POL}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Emil Milev]]|BUL}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Ralf Schumann]]|GER}}
|-
|1998
|{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Barcelona]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Ralf Schumann]]|GER}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Daniel Leonhard]]|GER}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Iulian Raicea]]|ROM}}
|-
|2002
|{{flagicon|FIN}} [[Lahti]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Marco Spangenberg]]|GER}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Ralf Schumann]]|GER}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Niki Marty]]|SUI}}
|-
|2006
|{{flagicon|CRO}} [[Zagreb]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Zhang Penghui]]|CHN}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Liu Zhongsheng]]|CHN}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Sergei Alifirenko]]|RUS}}
|-
|2010
|{{flagicon|GER}} [[Munich]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Alexei Klimov]]|RUS}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Zhang Jian (sport shooter)|Zhang Jian]]|CHN}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Li Yuehong]]|CHN}}
|-
|2014
|{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Granada]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Kim Seo-jun (sport shooter)|Kim Jun-hong]]|KOR}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Oliver Geis]]|GER}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Li Yuehong]]|CHN}}
|-
|2018
|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Changwon]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Lin Junmin]]|CHN}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Zhang Jian (sport shooter)|Zhang Jian]]|CHN}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Jean Quiquampoix]]|FRA}}
|-
|2022
|{{flagicon|EGY}} [[New Administrative Capital]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Lee Gun-hyeok]]|KOR}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Clément Bessaguet]]|FRA}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Ghulam Mustafa Bashir]]|PAK}}
|-
|2023
|{{flagicon|AZE}} [[Baku]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Li Yuehong]]|CHN}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Clément Bessaguet]]|FRA}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Florian Peter]]|GER}}
|}

== World Championships, Men's Team==
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Place
! style="background:gold"    width="210" | Gold
! style="background:silver"  width="210" | Silver
! style="background:#cc9966" width="210" | Bronze
|-
|1937
|{{flagicon|FIN}} [[Helsinki]]
|{{flagicon|FIN}} Finland<br>[[Vilho Elo]]<br>[[Erik Ljungqvist]]<br>[[Arvo Odenvall]]<br>[[Jaakko Rintanen]]<br>[[Sulo Cederström]]
|{{flagicon|LTU|1918}} [[Lithuania]]<br>[[Pranas Giedrimas]]<br>[[Kazys Sruoga]]<br>[[Antanas Jelenskas]]<br>[[Antanas Karčiauskas]]<br>[[Antanas Mamžeika]]
|{{flagicon|GER|Nazi}} Germany<br>[[Fritz Bucherer]]<br>[[Hans Funck]]<br>[[Walter Hartwig]]<br>[[Paul Jasper]]<br>[[Cornelius van Oyen]]
|-
|1939
|{{flagicon|SUI}} [[Luzern]]
|{{flagicon|HUN|1920}} Hungary<br>[[Laszlo Badinszky]]<br>[[Lajos Borzsonyi Dr.]]<br>[[Ede Domby]]<br>[[Károly Takács]]<br>[[László Vadnay (sport shooter)|Laszlo Vadnay]]
|{{flagicon|LTU|1918}} [[Lithuania]]<br>[[Pranas Giedrimas]]<br>[[Vladas Nakutis]]<br>[[Antanas Mamžeika]]<br>[[Jonas Miliauskas]]<br>[[Antanas Jelenskas]]
|{{flagicon|GER|Nazi}} Germany<br>[[Fritz Bucherer]]<br>[[Ludwig Leupold]]<br>[[Walter L.]]<br>[[Cornelius van Oyen]]<br>[[Zindel M.]]
|-
|1947
|{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Stockholm]]
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Italy<br>[[Ferdinando Bernini]]<br>[[Bertoni G.]]<br>[[Linari F.]]<br>[[Mazzavillani B.]]
|{{flagicon|FIN}} Finland<br>[[Väinö Heusala]]<br>[[Matti Kallio]]<br>[[Mauri Kuokka]]<br>[[Leonard Ravilo]]
|{{flagicon|GRE|old}} Greece<br>[[Evangelos Chryssafis]]<br>[[Angelos Papadimas]]<br>[[Constantin Mylonas]]<br>[[Georges Vichos]]
|-
|1949
|{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Buenos Aires]]
|{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Argentina]]<br>[[Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente]]<br>[[Dionisio Fernández (sport shooter)|Dionisio Fernández]]<br>[[Oscar Rosendo Cervo]]<br>[[Enrique Furtado]]
|{{flagicon|FIN}} Finland<br>[[Väinö Heusala]]<br>[[Matti Kallio]]<br>[[Leonard Ravilo]]<br>[[Eino Saarnikko]]
|{{flagicon|USA|1912}} United States<br>[[Huelet Benner]]<br>[[Hancock W.]]<br>[[Logie C.]]<br>[[Harry Wendell Reeves]]
|-
|1952
|{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Oslo]]
|{{flagicon|USA|1912}} United States<br>[[Huelet Benner]]<br>[[Walter Devine]]<br>[[William McMillan (sport shooter)|William McMillan]]<br>[[Harry Wendell Reeves]]
|{{flagicon|FIN}} Finland<br>[[Väinö Heusala]]<br>[[Veli-Jussi Hölsö]]<br>[[Leonard Ravilo]]<br>[[Lauri Toikka]]
|{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Argentina]]<br>[[Cabral G.]]<br>[[Oscar Rosendo Cervo]]<br>[[Schack E.]]<br>[[Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente]]
|-
|1954
|{{flagicon|VEN|1930}} [[Caracas]]
|{{flagicon|URS}} Soviet Union<br>[[Evgeni Cherkassov]]<br>[[Nikolai Kalinichenko]]<br>[[Victor Nasonov]]<br>[[Oleg Zhgutov]]
|{{flagicon|USA|1912}} United States<br>[[Huelet Benner]]<br>[[William McMillan (sport shooter)|William McMillan]]<br>[[Thomas Mitchell (sport shooter)|Thomas Mitchell]]<br>[[Philip Clay Roettinger]]
|{{flagicon|FIN}} Finland<br>[[Väinö Heusala]]<br>[[Pentti Linnosvuo]]<br>[[Leonard Ravilo]]<br>[[Lauri Toikka]]
|-
|1958
|{{flagicon|URS}} Moscow
|{{flagicon|URS}} Soviet Union<br>[[Evgeni Cherkassov]]<br>[[Aleksandr Kropotin]]<br>[[Victor Nasonov]]<br>[[Alexander Zabelin]]
|{{flagicon|USA|1912}} United States<br>[[Huelet Benner]]<br>[[William McMillan (sport shooter)|William McMillan]]<br>[[Miller D.]]<br>[[Aubrey Smith (sport shooter)|Aubrey Smith]]
|{{flagicon|HUN}} Hungary<br>[[Aladár Dobsa]]<br>[[József Gyönyörű]]<br>[[Ferenc Kun]]<br>[[Károly Takács]]
|-
|1962
|{{flagicon|Egypt|1958}} [[Cairo]]
|{{flagicon|URS}} Soviet Union<br>[[Efim Haydurov]]<br>[[Igor Bakalov]]<br>[[Renart Suleimanov]]<br>[[Alexander Zabelin]]
|{{flagu|United States}}<br>[[James Henderson McNally]]<br>[[William McMillan (sport shooter)|William McMillan]]<br>[[Aubrey Smith (sport shooter)|Aubrey Smith]]<br>[[Cecil Wallis]]
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Italy<br>[[Ugo Amicosante]]<br>[[Giovanni Liverzani]]<br>[[Roberto Mazzoni]]<br>[[Sergio Varetto]]
|-
|1966
|{{flagicon|FRG}} [[Wiesbaden]]
|{{flagicon|URS}} Soviet Union<br>[[Igor Bakalov]]<br>[[Stanislav Frantsevski]]<br>[[Renart Suleimanov]]<br>[[Alexander Zabelin]]
|{{flagicon|ROM|1965}} [[Romania]]<br>[[Virgil Atanasiu]]<br>[[Mihai Dumitriu]]<br>[[Marcel Roşca]]<br>[[Ion Tripşa]]
|{{flagicon|GDR}} [[East Germany]]<br>[[Gerhard Feller]]<br>[[Gerhard Dommrich]]<br>[[Christian Duering]]<br>[[Lothar Pinnig]]
|-
|1970
|{{flagicon|USA}} [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]
|{{flagicon|TCH}} [[Czechoslovakia]]<br>[[Ladislav Falta]]<br>[[Vladimír Hurt]]<br>[[Rudolf Kolinek]]<br>[[Lubomír Nácovský]]
|{{flagicon|ROM|1965}} [[Romania]]<br>[[Virgil Atanasiu]]<br>[[Dan Iuga]]<br>[[Marcel Roșca]]<br>[[Ion Tripșa]]
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Italy<br>[[Ugo Amicosante]]<br>[[Roberto Ferraris]]<br>[[Giovanni Liverzani]]<br>[[Silvano Mignardi]]
|-
|1974
|{{flagicon|SUI}} [[Thun]]
|{{flagicon|URS}} Soviet Union<br>[[Yuri Alekhin]]<br>[[Afanasijs Kuzmins]]<br>[[Victor Torshin]]<br>[[Mikhail Ziubko]]
|{{flagicon|TCH}} [[Czechoslovakia]]<br>[[Vladimír Hurt]]<br>[[Vladimír Hyka]]<br>[[Jan Kotora]]<br>[[Lubomír Nácovský]]
|{{flagicon|ROM|1965}} [[Romania]]<br>[[Virgil Atanasiu]]<br>[[Corneliu Ion]]<br>[[Marin Stan]]<br>[[Marcel Roșca]]
|-
|1978
|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Seoul]]
|{{flagicon|FRG}} [[West Germany]]<br>[[Werner Beier]]<br>[[Alfred Radke]]<br>[[Helmut Seeger]]<br>[[Heinz Weissenberger]]
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Italy<br>[[Rolando Comazzetto]]<br>[[Roberto Ferraris]]<br>[[Gianfranco Mantelli]]<br>[[Alberto Sevieri]]
|{{flagicon|SWE}} Sweden<br>[[Curt Andersson]]<br>[[Ove Gunnarsson]]<br>[[Boo Levin]]<br>[[Ragnar Skanåker]]
|-
|1982
|{{flagicon|VEN|1930}} [[Caracas]]
|{{flagicon|URS}} Soviet Union<br>[[Afanasijs Kuzmins]]<br>[[Igor Puzirev]]<br>[[Sergei Rysev]]<br>[[Vladimir Vokhmianin]]
|{{flagicon|ROM|1965}} [[Romania]]<br>[[Gratian Calota]]<br>[[Corneliu Ion]]<br>[[Suliu V.]]<br>[[Marin Stan]]
|{{flagicon|HUN}} Hungary<br>[[László Orbán (sport shooter)|László Orbán]]<br>[[Laszlo Nemeth (sport shooter)|Laszlo Nemeth]]<br>[[Gábor Plank]]<br>[[Istvan Szalai]]
|-
|1986
|{{flagicon|GDR}} [[Suhl]]
|{{flagicon|URS}} Soviet Union<br>[[Afanasijs Kuzmins]]<br>[[Oleg Tkachyov (sport shooter)|Oleg Tkachyov]]<br>[[Vladimir Vokhmianin]]
|{{flagicon|HUN}} Hungary<br>[[Csaba Hell (sport shooter)|Csaba Hell]]<br>[[Zoltán Kovács (sport shooter)|Zoltan Kovacs]]<br>[[László Orbán (sport shooter)|László Orbán]]
|{{flagicon|GDR}} [[East Germany]]<br>[[Roger Herzig]]<br>[[Peter Schumann (sport shooter)|Peter Schumann]]<br>[[Juergen Wiefel]]
|-
|1990
|{{flagicon|URS}} Moscow
|{{flagicon|URS}} Soviet Union<br>[[Miroslav Ignatiuk]]<br>[[Afanasijs Kuzmins]]<br>[[Victor Torshin]]
|{{flagicon|HUN}} Hungary<br>[[László Balogh (sport shooter)|László Balogh]]<br>[[Zoltán Kovács (sport shooter)|Zoltan Kovacs]]<br>[[Lajos Pálinkás]]
|{{flagicon|SUI}} Switzerland<br>[[Otto Keller (sport shooter)|Otto Keller]]<br>[[Anton Kuechler]]<br>[[Hansrudolf Schneider]]
|-
|1994
|{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Milan]]
|{{flagicon|POL}} Poland<br>[[Adam Kaczmarek]]<br>[[Andrzej Macur]]<br>[[Krzysztof Kucharczyk]]
|{{flagicon|China}}<br>[[Meng Gang]]<br>[[Wang Runxi]]<br>[[Zhang Ruimin]]
|{{flagicon|HUN}} Hungary<br>[[István Jambrik]]<br>[[Sándor Kacskó]]<br>[[Lajos Pálinkás]]
|-
|1998
|{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Barcelona]]
|{{flagicon|Germany}}<br>[[Ralf Schumann]]<br>[[Daniel Leonhard]]<br>[[Lars Uehlin]]
|{{flagicon|China}}<br>[[Ji Haiping]]<br>[[Zhang Penghui]]<br>[[Meng Gang]]
|{{flagicon|Japan}}<br>[[Shoichi Uenosono]]<br>[[Tomohiro Kida]]<br>[[Shuji Tazawa]]
|-
|2002
|{{flagicon|FIN}} [[Lahti]]
|{{flagicon|Germany}}<br>[[Ralf Schumann]]<br>[[Marco Spangenberg]]<br>[[Klaus-Dieter Schmidt]]
|{{flagicon|China}}<br>[[Ji Haiping]]<br>[[Liu Guohui]]<br>[[Zhang Penghui]]
|{{flagicon|UKR}} [[Ukraine]]<br>[[Oleg Tkachyov (sport shooter)|Oleg Tkachyov]]<br>[[Roman Bondaruk]]<br>[[Taras Magmet]]
|-
|2006
|{{flagicon|CRO}} [[Zagreb]]
|{{flagicon|China}}<br>[[Zhang Penghui]]<br>[[Liu Zhongsheng]]<br>[[Liu Guohui]]
|{{flagicon|RUS}} Russia<br>[[Sergei Alifirenko]]<br>[[Sergei Poliakov]]<br>[[Alexei Klimov]]
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Italy<br>[[Marco Liberato]]<br>[[Riccardo Mazzetti]]<br>[[Nicola Nello Pizzi]]
|-
|2010
|{{flagicon|GER}} [[Munich]]
|{{flagicon|China}}<br>[[Zhang Jian (sport shooter)|Zhang Jian]]<br>[[Li Yuehong]]<br>[[Ding Feng (sport shooter)|Ding Feng]]
|{{flagicon|RUS}} Russia<br>[[Alexei Klimov]]<br>[[Leonid Ekimov]]<br>[[Dmitry Brayko]]
|{{flagu|United States}}<br>[[Brad Balsley]]<br>[[Keith Sanderson (sport shooter)|Keith Sanderson]]<br>[[Emil Milev]]
|-
|2014
|{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Granada]]
|{{flagicon|Germany}}<br>[[Oliver Geis]]<br>[[Christian Reitz]]<br>[[Aaron Sauter]]
|{{flagicon|CZE}} [[Czech Republic]]<br>[[Tomas Tehan]]<br>[[Martin Podhráský]]<br>[[Martin Strnad]]
|{{flagicon|RUS}} Russia<br>[[Leonid Ekimov]]<br>[[Alexei Klimov]]<br>[[Alexander Alifirenko]] 
|-
|2018
|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Changwon]]
|{{flagicon|China}}<br>[[Lin Junmin]]<br>[[Zhang Jian (sport shooter)|Zhang Jian]]<br>[[Yao Zhaonan]]
|{{flagicon|Germany}}<br>[[Oliver Geis]]<br>[[Christian Reitz]]<br>[[Christian Freckmann]]
|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[South Korea]]<br>[[Kim Seo-jun (sport shooter)|Kim Jun-hong]]<br>[[Song Jong-ho (sport shooter)|Song Jong-ho]]<br>[[Park Jun-woo]] 
|-
|2022
|{{flagicon|EGY}} [[New Administrative Capital]]
|{{Flagu|China}}<br />[[Li Yuehong]]<br />[[Lu Zhiming]]<br />[[Zhang Jueming]]
|{{Flagu|Ukraine}}<br />[[Maksym Horodynets]]<br />[[Pavlo Korostylov]]<br />[[Denys Kushnirov]]
|{{Flagu|Korea}}<br />[[Kim Seo-jun (sport shooter)|Kim Seo-jun]]<br />[[Lee Jae-kyoon]]<br />[[Lee Gun-hyeok]]
|-
|2023
|{{flagicon|AZE}} [[Baku]]
|{{flagteam|CHN}} <br>[[Wang Xinjie]]<br>[[Li Yuehong]]<br>[[Liu Yangpan]]
|{{flagteam|GER}} <br>[[Florian Peter]]<br>[[Oliver Geis]]<br>[[Christian Reitz]]
|{{flagteam|KOR}} <br>[[Song Jong-ho (sport shooter)|Song Jong-ho]]<br>[[Lee Gun-hyeok]]<br>[[Kim Seo-jun (sport shooter)|Kim Seo-jun]]
|}

== World Championships, Women==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Place
! style="background:gold"    width="210" | Gold
! style="background:silver"  width="210" | Silver
! style="background:#cc9966" width="210" | Bronze
|-
|1962
|{{flagicon|Egypt|1958}} [[Cairo]]
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Sofia Tiagni]]|URS}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Nadezhda Yulina]]|URS}}
|{{flag athl iocc|[[Gertrude Schernitzauer]]|USA}}
|}

== World Championships, Mixed==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Place
! style="background:gold"    width="210" | Gold
! style="background:silver"  width="210" | Silver
! style="background:#cc9966" width="210" | Bronze
|-
|2022
|{{flagicon|EGY}} [[New Administrative Capital]]
|{{Flagu|Ukraine}}<br />[[Yulia Korostylova]]<br />[[Maksym Horodynets]]
|{{Flagu|India}}<br />[[Simranpreet Kaur Brar]]<br />[[Anish Bhanwala]]
|{{Flagu|Korea}}<br />[[Kim Jang-mi]]<br />[[Kim Seo-jun (sport shooter)|Kim Seo-jun]]
|}

== World Championships, total medals==

{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = 
 | flag_template  = flagcountry
 | event          = 
 | team           = 
 | gold_URS = 13 | silver_URS = 4 | bronze_URS = 3 | name_URS = ''{{URS}}''
 | gold_GER = 5 | silver_GER = 5 | bronze_GER = 3
 | gold_USA = 3 | silver_USA = 5 | bronze_USA = 4
 | gold_CHN = 6 | silver_CHN = 5 | bronze_CHN = 2
 | gold_POL = 3 | silver_POL = 2 | bronze_POL = 0
 | gold_ITA = 3 | silver_ITA = 1 | bronze_ITA = 3
 | gold_FRG = 2 | silver_FRG = 2 | bronze_FRG = 1 | name_FRG = ''{{FRG}}''
 | gold_SWE = 2 | silver_SWE = 1 | bronze_SWE = 2
 | gold_ARG = 2 | silver_ARG = 0 | bronze_ARG = 2
 | gold_ROU = 1 | silver_ROU = 4 | bronze_ROU = 3
 | gold_FIN = 1 | silver_FIN = 3 | bronze_FIN = 5
 | gold_TCH = 1 | silver_TCH = 3 | bronze_TCH = 0 | name_TCH = ''{{TCH}}''
 | gold_HUN = 1 | silver_HUN = 2 | bronze_HUN = 3
 | gold_RUS = 1 | silver_RUS = 2 | bronze_RUS = 1
 | gold_GDR = 1 | silver_GDR = 0 | bronze_GDR = 3 | name_GDR = ''{{GDR}}''
 | gold_FRA = 1 | silver_FRA = 0 | bronze_FRA = 1
 | gold_KOR = 1 | silver_KOR = 0 | bronze_KOR = 1
 | gold_LAT = 1 | silver_LAT = 0 | bronze_LAT = 0
 | gold_LTU = 0 | silver_LTU = 3 | bronze_LTU = 1
 | gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 1 | bronze_ESP = 2
 | gold_BUL = 0 | silver_BUL = 1 | bronze_BUL = 1
 | gold_GRE = 0 | silver_GRE = 1 | bronze_GRE = 1
 | gold_SUI = 0 | silver_SUI = 0 | bronze_SUI = 2
 | gold_CZE = 0 | silver_CZE = 1 | bronze_CZE = 0
 | gold_AUT = 0 | silver_AUT = 0 | bronze_AUT = 1
 | gold_JPN = 0 | silver_JPN = 0 | bronze_JPN = 1
 | gold_UKR = 0 | silver_UKR = 0 | bronze_UKR = 1
}}

== Current world records ==
{{see also|List of Olympic records in shooting|List of national shooting records surpassing the world records}}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%"
!colspan=9 | Current world records in 25 metre rapid fire pistol
|-
|rowspan=3 | Men
{{Shooting WR RFP Men Qualification}}
|-
| Final
! 39
| {{flagathlete|[[Li Yuehong]]|CHN}}
| Aug 22, 2023
| Baku {{cc3|AZE}}
|-
{{Shooting WR RFP Men Teams}}
|-
|rowspan=3 | Junior Men
| Individual
! 589
| {{flagathlete|[[Jean Quiquampoix]]|FRA}} <br/> {{flagathlete|[[Zhu Haojie]]|CHN}} <br/> {{flagathlete|[[Peter Florian]]|GER}}
| July 26, 2015 <br/> September 10, 2018 <br/> September 15, 2019
| [[Maribor]] {{cc3|SLO}} <br /> [[Changwon]] {{cc3|KOR}} <br/> [[Bologna]] {{cc3|ITA}}
|-
| Final
! 35
| {{flagathlete|[[Zhu Haojie]]|CHN}}
| September 10, 2018
| [[Changwon]] {{cc3|KOR}}
|-
| Teams
! 1747
| {{flagu|China}} ([[Zhu Haojie|Zhu]], [[Cheng Zhipeng|Cheng]], [[Pan Junchen|Pan]])
| September 10, 2018
| [[Changwon]] {{cc3|KOR}}
|}

== Olympic and World Champions ==
{{further|List of Olympic medalists in shooting#Rapid fire pistol|l1=List of Olympic medalists in shooting §&nbsp;25 metre rapid fire pistol}}

The dominant shooter of the event has been [[Ralf Schumann]] of Germany with a total of five major World-level Championship titles, with three Olympic gold medals and two Individual World titles. He is the first and one of the only two shooters to have won a particular Olympic event three times, and is the first of three shooters to have won three individual Olympic titles. [[Károly Takács]] and [[Józef Zapędzki]] 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 [[Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics|1912 Olympics]]) and Linnosvuo using only Olympic titles. Benner, on the other hand, is the only shooter with two titles in both events.

{| class=wikitable style="font-size: 95%"
! Year !! Venue !! Individual !! Team !!colspan=2 |
|-
|style="background: #ccffcc"| [[Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics|1896]]{{efn|name=y1896|Only muzzle-loading pistols of .45 caliber. The 25 metre military pistol event, which was won using a Colt revolver, was a separate event.}}
|style="background: #ccffcc"| [[Athens]]
|style="background: #ccffcc"| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Ioannis Frangoudis]]|GRE|1896 Summer}}
|style="border: none"|
|colspan=2 rowspan=16 style="border: none; vertical-align: middle"| [[Image:1912 Alfred Lane.JPG|thumb|center|150px|[[Alfred Lane]] at the 1912 Olympics]]
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics|1900]]{{efn|name=y1900|20 metre military pistol event}}
| Paris
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Maurice Larrouy (sport shooter)|Maurice Larrouy]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics|1912]]{{efn|name=y1912|30 metre dueling pistol event}}
| [[Stockholm]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Alfred Lane]]|USA|1912 Summer}}
| {{flagIOC|SWE|1912 Summer}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1920 Summer Olympics|1920]]{{efn|name=y1920|30 metre military pistol event}}<ref name="issf">{{cite web|url=https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/historicalmedalwinners.ashx#RFP|title=Historical Results|publisher=International Shooting Sport Federation|website=issf-sports.org|access-date=2020-12-11}}</ref>
| [[Antwerp]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Guilherme Paraense]]|BRA|1920 Summer}}
| {{flagIOC|USA|1920 Summer}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1924 Summer Olympics|1924]]
| [[Paris]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Henry Bailey (sport shooter)|Henry Bailey]]|USA|1924 Summer}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1932 Summer Olympics|1932]]
| [[Los Angeles]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Renzo Morigi]]|ITA|1932 Summer}}
|-
| 1933
| [[Granada]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Charles des Jammonières]]|FRA}}
|-
| 1935
| [[Rome]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Walter Boninsegni]]|ITA|1861}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1936 Summer Olympics|1936]]
| [[Berlin]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Cornelius van Oyen]]|GER|1936 Summer}}
|-
| 1937
| [[Helsinki]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Kārlis Kļava]]|LAT}}
| {{FIN}}
|-
| 1939
| [[Luzern]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Torsten Ullman]]|SWE}}
| {{flag|Hungary|1920}}
|-
| [[1947 ISSF World Shooting Championships|1947]]
| [[Stockholm]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Carlos Enrique Díaz Sáenz Valiente]]|ARG}}
| {{flagu|Italy}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1948 Summer Olympics|1948]]
| [[London]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Károly Takács]]|HUN|1948 Summer}}
|-
| [[1949 ISSF World Shooting Championships|1949]]
| [[Buenos Aires]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Huelet Benner]]|USA|1912}}
| {{ARG}}
|-
| [[1952 ISSF World Shooting Championships|1952]]
| [[Oslo]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Huelet Benner]]|USA|1912}}
| {{flagu|United States|1912}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics|1952]]
| [[Helsinki]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Károly Takács]]|HUN|1952 Summer}}
|-
| [[1954 ISSF World Shooting Championships|1954]]
| [[Caracas]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Nikolai Kalinichenko]]|URS|1936}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union|1936}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics|1956]]
| [[Melbourne]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Ştefan Petrescu]]|ROU|1956 Summer}}
|-
| [[1958 ISSF World Shooting Championships|1958]]
| [[Moscow]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Alexander Kropotin]]|URS|1955}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|colspan=2 rowspan=13 style="border: none; vertical-align: middle"| [[Image:Takács Károly shooting on Poland-Hungary-Yugoslavia match 1961.jpg|thumb|center|150px|[[Károly Takács]], the first double Olympic Champion, competing in 1961]]
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics|1960]]
| [[Rome]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[William McMillan (sport shooter)|William McMillan]]|USA|1960 Summer}}
|-
| [[1962 ISSF World Shooting Championships|1962]]
| [[Cairo]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Alexander Zabelin]]|URS|1955}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1964 Summer Olympics|1964]]
| [[Tokyo]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Pentti Linnosvuo]]|FIN|1964 Summer}}
|-
| [[1966 ISSF World Shooting Championships|1966]]
| [[Wiesbaden]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Virgil Atanasiu]]|ROU|1965}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics|1968]]
| [[Mexico City]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Józef Zapędzki]]|POL|1968 Summer}}
|-
| 1970
| [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Giovanni Liverzani]]|ITA}}
| {{TCH}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics|1972]]
| [[Munich]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Józef Zapędzki]]|POL|1972 Summer}}
|-
| 1974
| [[Thun]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Alfred Radke]]|FRG}}
| {{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics|1976]]
| [[Montreal]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Norbert Klaar]]|GDR|1976 Summer}}
|-
| [[1978 World Shooting Championships|1978]]
| [[Seoul]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Ove Gunnarsson]]|SWE}}
| {{FRG}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics|1980]]
| [[Moscow]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Corneliu Ion]]|ROU|1980 Summer}}
|-
| [[1982 World Shooting Championships|1982]]
| [[Caracas]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Igor Puzirev]]|URS}}
| {{URS}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics|1984]]
| [[Los Angeles]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Takeo Kamachi]]|JPN|1984 Summer}}
|-
| 1986
| [[Suhl]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Adam Kaczmarek]]|POL}}
| {{URS}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol|1988]]
| [[Seoul]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Afanasijs Kuzmins]]|URS|1988 Summer}}
|-
| 1990
| [[Moscow]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Ralf Schumann]]|GDR}}
| {{URS}}
!colspan=2 | Juniors
|-
|style="background: #ccffcc"| [[Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol|1992]]
|style="background: #ccffcc"| [[Barcelona]]
|style="background: #ccffcc"| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Ralf Schumann]]|GER|1992 Summer}}
|
! Individual
! Team
|-
| 1994
| [[Milan]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Krzysztof Kucharczyk]]|POL}}
| {{flagu|Poland}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Joseph Gonzalez]]|USA}}
| {{flagu|Germany}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol|1996]]
| [[Atlanta]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Ralf Schumann]]|GER|1996 Summer}}
|-
| 1998
| [[Barcelona]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Ralf Schumann]]|GER}}
| {{flagu|Germany}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Jorge Llames]]|ESP}}
| {{flagu|Germany}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol|2000]]
| [[Sydney]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Sergei Alifirenko]]|RUS|2000 Summer}}
|-
| [[2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2002]]
| [[Lahti]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Marco Spangenberg]]|GER}}
| {{flagu|Germany}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Martin Behrendt]]|GER}}
| {{flagu|Germany}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol|2004]]
| [[Athens]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Ralf Schumann]]|GER|2004 Summer}}
|-
| [[2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2006]]
| [[Zagreb]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Zhang Penghui]]|CHN}}
| {{flagu|China}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Christian Reitz]]|GER}}
| {{flagu|Russia}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol|2008]]
| [[Beijing]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Oleksandr Petriv]]|UKR|2008 Summer}}
|-
| [[2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2010]]
| [[Munich]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Alexei Klimov]]|RUS}}
| {{flagu|China}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Zhou Zhiguo]]|CHN}}
| {{flagu|China}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol|2012]]
| [[London]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Leuris Pupo]]|CUB|2012 Summer}}
|-
| [[2014 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2014]]
| [[Granada]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Kim Seo-jun (sport shooter)|Kim Jun Hong]]|KOR}}
| {{flagu|Germany}}
| {{flagathlete|[[Jean Quiquampoix]]|FRA}}
| {{flagu|China}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol|2016]]
| [[Rio de Janeiro]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Christian Reitz]]|GER|2016 Summer}}
|-
| [[2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2018]]
| [[Changwon]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Lin Junmin]]|CHN}}
| {{CHN}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol|2021]]
| [[Tokyo]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Jean Quiquampoix]]|FRA|2020 Summer}}
|-
| [[2022 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2022]]
| [[New Administrative Capital]]
| {{flagathlete|Lee Gun-hyeok|KOR|2022}}
| {{CHN}}
|-
| [[2023 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2023]]
| [[Baku]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Li Yuehong]]|CHN|2023}}
| {{CHN}}
|-style="background: #ccffcc"
| [[Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol|2024]]
| [[Paris]]
| {{flagathlete|[[Li Yuehong]]|CHN|2024 Summer}}
|}
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* The [http://www.issf-sports.org/ International Shooting Sport Federation]—Official site

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