Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre rifle three positions explained

Event:	Women's 50 metre rifle three positions
Games:	1996 Summer
Date:	24 July 1996
Competitors:	38
Nations:	21
Goldnoc:	YUG
Silvernoc:	RUS
Bronzenoc:	POL
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	686.1 (OR)
Next:	2000

Women's 50 metre rifle three positions (then known as standard rifle) was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Renata Mauer, who had won the air rifle competitions a few days earlier, set a new Olympic record of 589 points in the qualification round, but failed to win the double as she was surpassed in the final by Aleksandra Ivošev, winning on the final Olympic record score of 686.1, and Irina Gerasimenok.^[1]

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Prone	Stand	Kneel	Total	Notes
1	Renata Mauer		200	192	197	589	Q OR
2	Aleksandra Ivošev		199	193	195	587	Q
3	Irina Gerasimenok		196	194	195	585	Q
4	Nonka Matova		197	191	196	584	Q
4	Kirsten Obel		200	194	190	584	Q
6	Elizabeth Bourland		195	194	194	583	Q
6	Kong Hyun-ah		198	191	194	583	Q
8	Tetyana Nesterova		197	191	193	581	Q
9	Gaby Bühlmann		199	192	188	579
9	Petra Horneber		197	189	193	579
9	Lessia Leskiv		199	185	195	579
12	Jean Foster		197	187	194	578
12	Lindy Hansen		197	191	190	578
12	Vessela Letcheva		195	188	195	578
12	Marta Nedvedova		197	190	191	578
12	Suzana Skoko		192	194	192	578
17	Irina Shilova		197	188	192	577
17	Olga Pogrebniak		197	186	194	577
17	Zhang Qiuping		197	188	192	577
20	Chen Muhua		197	188	191	576
20	Éva Joó		197	190	189	576
22	Dagmar Bilkova		198	187	189	574
22	Aranka Binder		197	189	188	574
22	Anni Bisso		194	190	190	574
22	Sabina Fuchs		196	186	192	574
26	Anna Maloukhina		193	186	194	573
26	Yoko Minamoto		196	183	194	573
28	Mladenka Malenica		196	190	186	572
29	Sara Antunes		195	185	191	571
30	Jarintorn Dangpiam		193	183	194	570
30	Eva Forian		191	188	191	570
32	Carla Ribeiro		197	180	191	568
32	Won Gyeong-suk		194	185	189	568
34	Hanne Vataker		195	185	186	566
35	Malini Wickramasinghe		195	193	177	565
36	Pushpamali Ramanayake		194	188	182	564
37	Malgorzata Książkiewicz		194	181	188	563
38	Cristina Antolin		189	186	182	557

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
		587	99.1	686.1	OR
		585	95.1	680.1
		589	90.8	679.8
4		584	95.2	679.2
5		584	94.8	678.8
6		583	92.8	675.8
7		583	91.0	674.0
8		581	92.3	673.3

OR Olympic record

Sources

• Book: Olympic Report Atlanta 1996 Volume III: The Competition Results . PDF . 10 September 2008.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Shooting at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Women's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418124715/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/SHO/womens-small-bore-rifle-three-positions-50-metres.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 1 March 2020.