25 meter standard pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events, introduced at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in 1970. It has its roots in the conventional pistol competitions developed by the National Rifle Association of America.

The standard pistol match is shot with a regular sport pistol (also called a standard pistol) in caliber .22 LR. As with all ISSF pistol disciplines, all firing must be done with one hand, unsupported.

The 60-shot match is divided into 5-shot strings with different timings:

• 4 strings within 150 seconds each – competitor can begin the series in any fashion he/she chooses.
• 4 strings within 20 seconds each – competitor must begin each string with pistol in one outstretched arm from the 45-degree angle starting position.
• 4 strings within 10 seconds each – competitor must begin each string with pistol in one outstretched arm from the 45-degree angle starting position.

Just like 25 meter center-fire pistol, standard pistol is a non-Olympic event and so gains little attention. It is one of the few events where targets did not change in 1989, so no resetting of records has been made. As a result, many records are rather old.

World Championships, Men

Year	Place	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1970	Phoenix	Renart Suleimanov (URS)	Hynek Hromada (TCH)	William McMillan (USA)
1974	Thun	Victor Torshin (URS)	Bonnie Harmon (USA)	Valeri Margasov (URS)
1978	Seoul	Ragnar Skanåker (SWE)	Seppo Saarenpää (FIN)	Hannu Paavola (FIN)
1982	Caracas	Vladas Turla (URS)	Alexsander Melentiev (URS)	Aldo Andreotti (ITA)
1986	Suhl	Afanasij Kuzmin (URS)	Hermann Sailer (AUT)	Igor Basinski (URS)
1990	Moscow	Miroslav Ignatiuk (URS)	Finn Damkjaer (DEN)	Anton Kuechler (SUI)
1994	Milan	Sang Hak Lee (KOR)	Hansrudolf Schneider (SUI)	Seppo Makinen (FIN)
1998	Barcelona	Mikhail Nestruev (RUS)	Paal Hembre (NOR)	Yongde Jin (CHN)
2002	Lahti	Rene Vogn (DEN)	Alexander Danilov (ISR)	Giovanni Bossi (AUT)
2006	Zagreb	Guohui Liu (CHN)	Jong Su Kim (PRK)	Jakkrit Panichpatikum (THA)
2010	Munich	Seong Hwan Hong (KOR)	Yongde Jin (CHN)	Júlio Almeida (BRA)
2014	Granada	Yusuf Dikeç (TUR)	João Costa (POR)	Christian Reitz (GER)
2018	Changwon	Pavlo Korostylov (UKR)	Gurpreet Singh (IND)	Kim Jun-hong (KOR)
2022	Cairo	Pavlo Korostylov (UKR)	Christian Reitz (GER)	Vijayveer Sidhu (IND)

World Championships, Men Junior

Year	Place	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1994	Milan	Jaspal Rana (IND)	Ricardo Yuston (ARG)	Joseph Gonzalez (USA)
1998	Barcelona	Manuel Jun Guevara (VEN)	Gregory Fouet (FRA)	Rinat Ishbaev (RUS)
2002	Lahti	Denis Kulakov (RUS)	Vladimir Issachenko (KAZ)	Julien Dufour (FRA)
2006	Zagreb	Kyusang Park (KOR)	Leonid Ekimov (RUS)	Thibaut Sauvage (FRA)
2010	Munich	Zhigou Zhou (CHN)	Aaron Sauter (GER)	Xuan Feng Long (CHN)
2014	Granada	Alexander Chichkov (USA)	Dario Di Martino (ITA)	Pardeep Pardeep (IND)
2018	Changwon	Vijayveer Sidhu (IND)	Lee Gun-hyeok (KOR)	Zhu Haojie (CHN)
2022	Cairo	Udhayveer Sidhu (IND)	Liu Yangpan (CHN)	Sameer Sameer (IND)

World Championships, Men Team

Year	Place	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1970	Phoenix, Arizona	United States William Blankenship William Mc Millan Edwin Lee Teague Charles Wheeler	Soviet Union Igor Bakalov Anatoli Spivakov Vladimir Stolipin Renart Suleimanov	Czechoslovakia Ladislav Falta Hynek Hromada Vladimír Hurt Lubomír Nácovský
1974	Thun	Soviet Union Afanasij Kuzmin Valeri Margasov Vladimir Stolipin Victor Torshin	Czechoslovakia Vladimír Hyka Milan Hyka Hynek Hromada Vladimír Hurt	United States Marvin Black Bonnie Harmon Bobby Tiner Charles Wheeler
1978	Seoul	Finland Seppo Makinen Hannu Paavola Paavo Palokangas Seppo Saarenpää	Italy Giuseppe Quadro Alberto Sevieri Roberto Vannozzi Renato Zambon	Switzerland Marcel Ansermet Otto Keller Reinhard Ruess Alex Tschui
1982	Caracas	Soviet Union Anatoli Egrishin Aleksandr Melentyev Sergei Sumatokhin Vladas Turla	Italy Aldo Andreotti Giulio Mussini Giuseppe Quadro Renato Zambon	United States Erich Buljung John Kailer Melvin Makin Don Nygord
1986	Suhl	Soviet Union Igor Basinski Afanasij Kuzmin Sergei Pyzhianov	Austria Dieter Aggermann Karl Pavlis Hermann Sailer	Finland Seppo Makinen Paavo Palokangas Jouni Vainio
1990	Moscow	Soviet Union Igor Basinski Miroslav Ignatiuk Afanasij Kuzmin	China Hui Wang Runxi Wang Yifu Wang	United States Erich Buljung Jimmie Mc Coy Don Nygord
1994	Milan	Finland Jari Koivu Seppo Makinen Jouni Vainio	China Gang Meng Runxi Wang Ruimin Zhang	Switzerland Eros de Berti Andreas Schweizer Hansrudolf Schneider
1998	Barcelona	China Yongde Jin Gang Meng Yifu Wang	Norway Paal Hembre Petter Bratli Johnny Nilsen	Austria Giovanni Bossi Karl Pavlis Gerhard Boehm
2002	Lahti	Austria Giovanni Bossi Karl Pavlis Heinz Koeltringer	Korea Byung Taek Park Sang Hak Lee Seong Hwan Hong	China Yongde Jin Yadong Liu Guohui Liu
2006	Zagreb	China Guohui Liu Yongde Jin Yadong Liu	Russia Mikhail Nestruev Sergei Poliakov Sergei Alifirenko	Ukraine Oleg Tkachyov Roman Bondaruk Oleksandr Petriv
2010	Munich	China Yongde Jin Chuanlin Li Zhenxiang Xie	Germany Pierre Michel Christian Reitz Michael Schleuter	Korea Seong Hwan Hong Yoon Sam Hwang Dae Kyu Jang
2014	Granada	Ukraine Pavlo Korostylov Roman Bondaruk Oleksandr Petriv	China Yongde Jin Chuanlin Li Feng Ding	Turkey Yusuf Dikeç Fatih Kavaruk Murat Kilinc
2018	Changwon	France Clément Bessaguet Boris Artaud Alban Pierson	South Korea Kim Jun-hong Kim Young-min Jang Dae-kyu	Ukraine Pavlo Korostylov Volodymyr Pasternak Oleksandr Petriv

World Championships, Women

This event was held at World Championships in 1970 and 2022.

Year	Place	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1970	Phoenix	Judy Trim (AUS)	Gloria Vause (AUS)	Nina Stoliarova (URS)
2022	New Administrative Capital	Xiao Jiaruixuan (CHN)	Rhythm Sangwan (IND)	Chen Yan (CHN)

World Championships, Women Team

This event was held at World Championships in 1970.

Year	Place	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1970	Phoenix	Australia E. Newton Judy Trim Gloria Vause	United States Sally Carroll Lucile Chambliss M. Norkauer	West Germany Ortrud Feickert Karin Fitzner Ruth Kasten

World Championships, Mixed Team

This event was held at World Championships in 2022.

Year	Place	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2022	New Administrative Capital	Germany Doreen Vennekamp Christian Reitz	Korea Kim Jang-mi Kim Seo-jun	Ukraine Olena Kostevych Pavlo Korostylov

World Championships, total medals

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	11	2	2	15
2	China	5	5	3	13
3	South Korea	3	1	1	5
4	Russia	2	2	1	5
5	United States	2	1	6	9
6	Finland	2	1	4	7
7	Austria	1	3	2	6
8	Denmark	1	1	0	2
9	India	1	0	1	2
	Turkey	1	0	1	2
	Ukraine	1	0	1	2
12	Sweden	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
14	Italy	0	3	1	4
15	Czechoslovakia	0	2	1	3
	Germany	0	2	1	3
17	Norway	0	2	0	2
18	Switzerland	0	1	3	4
19	France	0	1	2	3
20	Argentina	0	1	0	1
	Israel	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	North Korea	0	1	0	1
	Portugal	0	1	0	1
25	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Thailand	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		32	32	32	96

Current World Records

Current world records in 25 metre standard pistol
Men	Individual	584	Erich Buljung (USA)	August 20, 1983	Caracas (VEN)
	Teams	1725	Soviet Union (Kuzmins, Melentyev, Turla)  Soviet Union (Kuzmins, Basinski, Pyzhianov)	September 10, 1985 September 8, 1986	Osijek (YUG) Suhl (GDR)
Junior Men	Individual	581	Pavlo Korostylov (UKR)	July 30, 2017	Baku (AZE)
	Teams	1707	India (Sidhu U., Sidhu V., Singh)	July 13, 2019	Suhl (GER)

World champions

Year	Venue	Individual	Team
1970	Phoenix, Arizona	Renart Suleimanov (URS)	United States
1974	Thun	Viktor Torshin (URS)	Soviet Union
1978	Seoul	Ragnar Skanåker (SWE)	Finland
1982	Caracas	Vladas Turla (URS)	Soviet Union
1986	Suhl	Afanasijs Kuzmins (URS)	Soviet Union	Juniors
1990	Moscow	Miroslav Ignatiuk (URS)	Soviet Union	Individual	Team
1994	Milan	Lee Sang-hak (KOR)	Finland	Jaspal Rana (IND)	Moldova
1998	Barcelona	Mikhail Nestruyev (RUS)	China	Manuel Guevara Jr. (VEN)	Venezuela
2002	Lahti	René Vogn (DEN)	Austria	Denis Kulakov (RUS)	Russia
2006	Zagreb	Liu Guohui (CHN)	China	Park Kyu-sang (KOR)	Russia
2010	Munich	Hong Seong Hwan (KOR)	China	Zhou Zhiguo (CHN)	China
2014	Granada	Yusuf Dikeç (TUR)	Ukraine	Alexander Chichkov (USA)	Mongolia