Official 1936 olympics pistole

[mikeburch]

Mike,

what you have there is a nice m/1936 Olympia II Sport Modell. However, it is not "an official Olympics pistol", as this model was meant for ISSF and national sport pistol events.

Olympic 25 m Rapid Fire event was shot with .22 short pistols until 2005, and thus the German team in the 1936 Olympic Games at Berlin Wannsee used the Walther m/1936 Olympia II Schnellfeuer pistols. The other Olympic pistol event, 50 m Free Pistol, was shot with single shot free pistols.

MVM .......................
Thank you for the information !
I had just ASSUMED that Walther had sold, commercially, copies of the pistol, used in Olympic competition.
mikeburch