Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone explained

Event:Men's 50 metre rifle prone
Games:1992 Summer
Competitors:52
Nations:34
Goldnoc:KOR
Silvernoc:NOR
Bronzenoc:IOP
Win Label:Winning score
Win Value:702.5 OR
Next:1996

Men's 50 metre rifle prone (then known as small-bore free rifle) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. It was the first Olympic competition after the introduction of the new target in 1989, and thus two Olympic records were set. The first was set by Hubert Bichler with 598 points in the qualification round. All his seven adversaries in the final started just one point behind him on 597. Two of them, Lee Eun-chul and Harald Stenvaag, surpassed him to win gold and silver respectively, with Lee establishing a new final Olympic record. Stevan Pletikosić finished on exactly the same score as Bichler, and the rules at the time broke the tie by best final score, giving Pletikosić the bronze medal.[1]

Qualification round

RankAthleteCountryScoreNotes
1Hubert Bichler598Q OR
2Harald Stenvaag597Q
3Stevan Pletikosić597Q
4Juha Hirvi597Q
5Peter Gabrielsson597Q
6Michel Bury597Q
7Hrachya Petikyan597Q
8Lee Eun-chul597Q
9William E. Meek596
10Bernd Rücker596
11Jens Harskov Loczi596
11Jiang Rong596
11Olimpiu Marin596
11Wolfram Waibel Jr.596
15Michael James Ashcroft595
15Nils Petter Håkedal595
15Zsolt Vári595
18Michael Anti594
18Cha Young-chul594
18Tadeusz Czerwiński594
18Rajmond Debevec594
18Ralph Rodríguez594
18Andreas Zumbach594
24Michel Dion593
24Kirill Ivanov593
26Jean-Pierre Amat592
26Jorge González592
26Akihiro Mera592
26Jari Pälve592
26Attila Záhonyi592
31Milan Bakeš591
31Bo Arne Gerhard Lilja591
31Goran Maksimović591
31Bruce Meredith591
31Ricardo Rusticucci591
31Miroslav Varga591
31Wolfram Waibel Sr.591
31Petar Dimitrov Zapryanov591
39Massimo Birindelli590
39Menachem Ilan590
39Pang Yongying590
42Stephen Kelly Petterson589
43Khalaf Al-Khatri588
43Alister Miller Allan588
43Manfred Fiess588
43Ryohei Koba588
43Jacek Kubka588
48Jaime Parés587
49Hugo Romero585
50Carl Eiríksson583
50Norbert Sturny583
52Satiender Sehmi579
OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

RankAthleteQualFinalTotalShoot-offNotes
597105.5702.5OR
597104.4701.4
597104.1701.1
4598103.1701.1
5597103.0700.0
6597102.5699.5?
7597102.5699.5?
8597102.2699.2
OR Olympic record

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shooting at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181331/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1992/SHO/mens-small-bore-rifle-prone-50-metres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 25 February 2020.