How does the rapid fire pistol final work?

• A series: five shots in 4 seconds, one at each of five targets, from the ready position.
• Hit or miss: "Any shot scoring 9.7 or higher on the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol target counts as a hit." A hit is one point and a miss nothing.
• Start numbers: 1 to 8 by qualification ranking, with the best-ranked athlete number 1.
• Two groups of targets: four finalists share each. Numbers 1, 3, 5 and 7 are on the left group and 2, 4, 6 and 8 on the right.
• Order of shooting: in the first three series finalists shoot in pairs, 1 and 3, then 2 and 4, then 5 and 7, then 6 and 8. From the fourth series each shoots alone, in turn.
• After each series: the Chief Range Officer announces the hits.
• Who goes out:
  • after 3 series, 8th and 7th places;
  • after 4 series, 6th place;
  • after 5 series, 5th place;
  • after 6 series, 4th place;
  • after 7 series, 3rd place, the bronze medal;
  • after 8 series, silver and gold.
• Ties: for 8th to 5th place, by start number with no extra shooting. For 4th place and the medals, by a shoot-off series, fired one athlete at a time.
• A late or missing shot: one hit is taken off for each.
• Two shots on one target: the second is a miss and one more hit is taken off.
• Ready position: no warning in a final. A fault costs two hits in that series and a second fault means disqualification.
• Malfunction: one may be claimed. If it is allowable the athlete repeats the series at once and gets the score of the repeat. If not, two hits are taken off.
• Loading: finalists load their own magazines in an ammunition area behind the firing points. A coach who touches the ammunition there costs the athlete two hits.

The most a finalist can score is 40 hits.

Hits and misses can be followed by anyone in the hall, which a column of decimals cannot. Setting the hit zone inside the ten ring keeps it hard: a shot that would score a comfortable nine in qualification is a miss here.