| Event: | Men's 50 metre rifle three positions |
| Games: | 1988 Summer |
| Date: | 22 September 1988 |
| Competitors: | 47 |
| Nations: | 25 |
| Goldnoc: | GBR |
| Silvernoc: | GBR |
| Bronzenoc: | URS |
| Win Label: | Winning score |
| Win Value: | 1279.3 (OR) |
| Next: | 1992 |
Men's 50 metre rifle three positions (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. Alister Allan set a new Olympic record in the qualification round but lost the final to his countryman Malcolm Cooper, who thus defended his title from Los Angeles.[1]
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Prone | Stand | Kneel | Total | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alister Allan | 399 | 386 | 396 | 1181 | Q OR | ||
| 2 | Malcolm Cooper | 400 | 387 | 393 | 1180 | Q | ||
| 3 | Klavs Jørn Christensen | 399 | 387 | 391 | 1177 | Q | ||
| 4 | Glenn Dubis | 400 | 388 | 386 | 1174 | Q | ||
| 5 | Kirill Ivanov | 399 | 382 | 392 | 1173 | Q | ||
| 6 | Harald Stenvaag | 395 | 389 | 389 | 1173 | Q | ||
| 7 | Hrachya Petikyan | 394 | 387 | 392 | 1173 | Q | ||
| 8 | Goran Maksimović | 399 | 383 | 391 | 1173 | Q | ||
| 9 | Zhang Yingzhou | 397 | 386 | 389 | 1172 | |||
| 10 | Andreas Wolfram | 396 | 385 | 391 | 1172 | |||
| 11 | Geir Skirbekk | 397 | 383 | 390 | 1170 | |||
| 11 | Attila Záhonyi | 398 | 387 | 385 | 1170 | |||
| 13 | Jean-Pierre Amat | 398 | 377 | 394 | 1169 | |||
| 13 | Daniel Durben | 397 | 379 | 393 | 1169 | |||
| 15 | Jorge González | 399 | 379 | 390 | 1168 | |||
| 15 | Pavel Soukeník | 398 | 375 | 395 | 1168 | |||
| 17 | Juha Hirvi | 397 | 384 | 386 | 1167 | |||
| 18 | Olaf Heß | 395 | 378 | 393 | 1166 | |||
| 18 | Stefan Lövbom | 399 | 376 | 391 | 1166 | |||
| 18 | Norbert Sturny | 398 | 380 | 388 | 1166 | |||
| 21 | Pascal Bessy | 395 | 381 | 389 | 1165 | |||
| 21 | Kwon Taek-yul | 397 | 381 | 387 | 1165 | |||
| 21 | Eduard Papirov | 399 | 378 | 388 | 1165 | |||
| 21 | Srecko Pejovic | 395 | 377 | 393 | 1165 | |||
| 25 | Jean-François Senecal | 397 | 380 | 387 | 1164 | |||
| 25 | Xu Xiaoguang | 397 | 378 | 389 | 1164 | |||
| 27 | Petar Zaprianov | 398 | 379 | 385 | 1162 | |||
| 28 | Ryohei Koba | 398 | 381 | 382 | 1161 | |||
| 28 | Lee Eun-chul | 395 | 379 | 387 | 1161 | |||
| 28 | Ulrich Lind | 399 | 375 | 387 | 1161 | |||
| 28 | Georgi Poliakov | 396 | 375 | 390 | 1161 | |||
| 32 | Sándor Bereczky | 398 | 372 | 390 | 1160 | |||
| 32 | Petr Kůrka | 396 | 375 | 389 | 1160 | |||
| 34 | Kurt Thune | 395 | 378 | 386 | 1159 | |||
| 35 | Pierre-Alain Dufaux | 397 | 376 | 385 | 1158 | |||
| 36 | Lothar Heinrich | 391 | 373 | 393 | 1157 | |||
| 36 | Mart Klepp | 395 | 369 | 393 | 1157 | |||
| 38 | Johannes Gufler | 392 | 375 | 388 | 1155 | |||
| 38 | Kurt Hillenbrand | 395 | 371 | 389 | 1155 | |||
| 40 | José Álvarez | 398 | 369 | 387 | 1154 | |||
| 40 | Donald Brook | 397 | 372 | 385 | 1154 | |||
| 42 | Jørgen Herlufsen | 398 | 369 | 386 | 1153 | |||
| 43 | Itzchak Yonassi | 395 | 374 | 383 | 1152 | |||
| 44 | Kaoru Matsuo | 395 | 372 | 380 | 1147 | |||
| 45 | Per G. Hansson | 396 | 365 | 385 | 1146 | |||
| 46 | Alan Smith | 397 | 373 | 373 | 1143 | |||
| 47 | Bruce Meredith | 397 | 364 | 380 | 1141 |
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1180 | 99.3 | 1279.3 | OR | |||
| 1181 | 94.6 | 1275.6 | ||||
| 1173 | 102.0 | 1275.0 | ||||
| 4 | 1177 | 96.6 | 1273.6 | |||
| 5 | 1174 | 99.5 | 1273.5 | |||
| 6 | 1173 | 99.2 | 1272.2 | |||
| 7 | 1173 | 98.7 | 1271.7 | |||
| 8 | 1173 | 98.5 | 1271.5 |