Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone explained

Event:Men's 50 metre rifle prone
Games:1988 Summer
Date:19 September 1988
Competitors:55
Nations:33
Goldnoc:TCH
Silvernoc:KOR
Bronzenoc:HUN
Win Label:Winning score
Win Value:703.9 (OR)
Next:1992

Men's 50 metre rifle prone (then known as small-bore free rifle) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. It was the first Olympic three positions competition to feature final shooting. Miroslav Varga equalled the world record with a perfect 600 in the qualification round, and retained half of his two-point pre-final lead until the end of the competition.[1]

Qualification round

RankAthleteCountryScoreNotes
1Miroslav Varga600Q EWR OR
2Cha Young-chul598Q
3Pavel Soukeník598Q
4Alister Allan598Q
5Attila Záhonyi597Q
6Xu Xiaoguang597Q
7Bernd Rücker597Q
8Michael Ashcroft597Q
9Jan Gundersrud596
10Stephen Petterson596
11Per G. Hansson596
11Stefan Lövbom596
11Goran Maksimović596
11Alan Smith596
15Klavs Jørn Christensen595
15Glenn Dubis595
15Lothar Heinrich595
15Olaf Hess595
15Kirill Ivanov595
15Jiang Rong595
15Vladimir Lvov595
15Kaoru Matsuo595
15Andreas Wolfram595
24Pierre-Alain Dufaux594
24Juha Hirvi594
24Kwak Jung-hoon594
24Eduard Papirov594
24Norbert Sturny594
24Kurt Thune594
24Patrick Vamplew594
24Webster Wright594
32Jean-Pierre Amat593
32Pascal Bessy593
32Jorge González593
32Georgi Poliakov593
36Jorge Bracero592
36Malcolm Cooper592
36Jørgen Just Herlufsen592
39Adilbishiin Sangidorj591
39José Álvarez591
41Donald Brook590
41Kurt Hillenbrand590
41Julio César Iemma590
41Petar Zaprianov590
45Sandor Bereczky589
45Albert Deuring589
47Srecko Pejovic588
47Geir Skirbekk588
49Daya Rajasinghe587
50Bruce Meredith586
51Ryohei Koba584
51Itzchak Yonassi584
53Roland Jacoby583
54Jadaan Tarjam Al Shammari582
55Kenneth Johnston580
EWR Equalled world record – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

RankAthleteQualFinalTotalNotes
600103.9703.9OR
598104.8702.8
597104.9701.9
4598103.2701.2
5598102.9700.9
6597103.6700.6
7597103.5700.5
8597101.5698.5
OR Olympic record

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shooting at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181334/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1988/SHO/mens-small-bore-rifle-prone-50-metres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 21 February 2020.