# Shooting at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's 50 metre pistol

The men's 50 metre pistol shooting event at the 2011 Pan American Games was held on October 18 at the Jalisco Hunting Club in Guadalajara. The defending Pan American Games champion was Jason Turner of the United States.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a pistol at 50 metres distance. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.
The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots was used to determine final ranking.
Sergio Sanchez of Guatemala won the competition, which qualified his country a quota spot for the men's 50 metre pistol event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Great Britain.

## Schedule

All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6).
| Date | Time | Round |
| October 18, 2011 | 9:00 | Qualification |
| October 18, 2011 | 13:00 | Final |

## Records

The existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows.
Qualification records :
| World record | Alexsander Melentiev (URS) | 581 | Moscow, Soviet Union | July 20, 1980 |
| Pan American record | Jason Turner (USA) | 563 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | August 5, 2003 |
Final records :
| World record | William Demarest (USA) | 676.2 | Milan, Italy | June 4, 2000 |
| Pan American record | Daryl Szarenski (USA) | 658.1 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | August 5, 2003 |

## Results
### Qualification round

28 athletes from 19 countries competed.
| Rank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total | Notes |
| 1 | Sergio Sanchez | Guatemala | 92 | 93 | 94 | 91 | 98 | 91 | 559 | Q |
| 2 | Hugo Hernandez | Mexico | 95 | 93 | 91 | 89 | 89 | 92 | 549 | Q |
| 3 | Daryl Szarenski | United States | 90 | 89 | 93 | 93 | 91 | 92 | 548 | Q |
| 4 | Nickolaus Mowrer | United States | 90 | 94 | 88 | 88 | 90 | 95 | 545 | Q |
| 5 | Stenio Yamamoto | Brazil | 92 | 91 | 94 | 91 | 87 | 90 | 545 | Q |
| 6 | Júlio Almeida | Brazil | 89 | 91 | 86 | 91 | 93 | 95 | 545 | Q |
| 7 | Yulio Zorrilla | Cuba | 88 | 91 | 93 | 92 | 95 | 86 | 545 | Q |
| 8 | Juan Olvera | Mexico | 92 | 83 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 90 | 544 | Q |
| 9 | Maunal Sanchez | Chile | 86 | 87 | 90 | 91 | 94 | 94 | 542 | |
| 10 | Frank Bonilla | Venezuela | 89 | 86 | 90 | 86 | 93 | 95 | 539 | |
| 11 | Roger Daniel | Trinidad and Tobago | 87 | 91 | 89 | 91 | 90 | 88 | 536 | |
| 12 | Mario Vinueza | Ecuador | 90 | 89 | 93 | 91 | 83 | 90 | 536 | |
| 13 | Jorge Grau | Cuba | 95 | 82 | 88 | 88 | 92 | 90 | 535 | |
| 14 | Alex Peralta | Colombia | 87 | 94 | 88 | 88 | 86 | 91 | 534 | |
| 15 | Enrique Arnaez | Peru | 92 | 87 | 87 | 88 | 90 | 90 | 534 | |
| 16 | Maximino Modesti | Argentina | 84 | 91 | 93 | 89 | 85 | 91 | 533 | |
| 17 | Marco Nuñez | Venezuela | 87 | 86 | 90 | 86 | 89 | 94 | 532 | |
| 18 | Sylvain Ouellette | Canada | 91 | 91 | 89 | 86 | 91 | 83 | 531 | |
| 19 | Rudolf Knijnenburg | Bolivia | 91 | 89 | 87 | 82 | 95 | 86 | 530 | |
| 20 | Nestor Godoy | Argentina | 88 | 83 | 84 | 91 | 89 | 94 | 529 | |
| 21 | Martin Galvez | Peru | 90 | 92 | 83 | 87 | 86 | 89 | 527 | |
| 22 | Julio Molina | El Salvador | 88 | 91 | 86 | 82 | 86 | 90 | 523 | |
| 23 | Jaime Davila | Nicaragua | 88 | 86 | 90 | 87 | 87 | 82 | 520 | |
| 24 | Ricardo Chandeck | Panama | 91 | 83 | 84 | 90 | 82 | 83 | 513 | |
| 25 | Manuel Figuereo | Dominican Republic | 85 | 79 | 85 | 90 | 84 | 89 | 512 | |
| 26 | Josue Hernandez | Dominican Republic | 83 | 84 | 84 | 81 | 87 | 91 | 510 | |
| 27 | Calvert Herbert | Barbados | 79 | 88 | 86 | 87 | 86 | 82 | 598 | |
| 28 | Pablo Guerrero | Nicaragua | 79 | 77 | 81 | 78 | 79 | 83 | 477 | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final | Total |
| | Sergio Sanchez (GUA) | 559 | 7.5 | 8.4 | 9.5 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 9.6 | 9.2 | 9.1 | 8.4 | 9.1 | 89.9 | 648.9 |
| | Daryl Szarenski (USA) | 548 | 8.3 | 9.5 | 9.2 | 8.3 | 10.7 | 10.0 | 7.7 | 10.2 | 7.8 | 10.3 | 92.0 | 640.0 |
| | Júlio Almeida (BRA) | 545 | 9.4 | 10.7 | 9.6 | 10.3 | 7.9 | 9.6 | 9.5 | 9.7 | 8.0 | 10.2 | 94.9 | 639.9 |
| 4 | Hugo Hernandez (MEX) | 549 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 9.8 | 10.6 | 7.0 | 9.5 | 10.1 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 88.4 | 637.4 |
| 5 | Yulio Zorrilla (CUB) | 545 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 9.8 | 9.6 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 9.8 | 7.3 | 90.1 | 635.1 |
| 6 | Nickolaus Mowrer (USA) | 545 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 7.6 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 10.5 | 7.8 | 9.2 | 9.5 | 7.6 | 89.4 | 634.4 |
| 7 | Stenio Yamamoto (BRA) | 545 | 9.9 | 7.6 | 8.2 | 9.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 | 4.9 | 9.9 | 10.0 | 8.8 | 86.5 | 631.5 |
| 8 | Juan Olvera (MEX) | 544 | 8.5 | 10.3 | 10.1 | 9.0 | 7.3 | 9.3 | 9.2 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 8.8 | 86.7 | 630.7 |