Hämmerli Olympia 200

About the Hämmerli Olympia 200

The Hämmerli Olympia 200 is a single-action, blowback-operated semi-automatic target pistol chambered in .22 Long Rifle. It is the Swiss-built continuation of the Walther Olympia, which Hämmerli reintroduced under license as the Hämmerli-Walther Olympia in 1952. Built around a fixed barrel with an open-topped slide and an internal hammer, the pistol was aimed at Olympic and international 25-metre competition, offering adjustable target sights, screw-on barrel counterweights, and an anatomical grip. Its accuracy and refinement made the Hämmerli-Walther Olympia one of the dominant .22 competition pistols of the 1950s.

The Olympia design won five gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Walther's hands; after the war, with Walther's Zella-Mehlis works lost, Switzerland's Hämmerli took up the licence in 1952 and carried the Olympia name back onto the world's shooting ranges.

Hämmerli Olympia 200 specifications

The Olympia 200 is the base model of the post-war Hämmerli-Walther Olympia series produced in Lenzburg, Switzerland; the design descends directly from Fritz Walther's pre-war Olympia-Pistole. Rapid-fire variants of the family were offered in .22 Short with lightened slides.