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

RankAthleteCountryProneStandKneelTotalNotes
1Renata Mauer200192197589Q OR
2Aleksandra Ivošev199193195587Q
3Irina Gerasimenok196194195585Q
4Nonka Matova197191196584Q
4Kirsten Obel200194190584Q
6Elizabeth Bourland195194194583Q
6Kong Hyun-ah198191194583Q
8Tetyana Nesterova197191193581Q
9Gaby Bühlmann199192188579
9Petra Horneber197189193579
9Lessia Leskiv199185195579
12Jean Foster197187194578
12Lindy Hansen197191190578
12Vessela Letcheva195188195578
12Marta Nedvedova197190191578
12Suzana Skoko192194192578
17Irina Shilova197188192577
17Olga Pogrebniak197186194577
17Zhang Qiuping197188192577
20Chen Muhua197188191576
20Éva Joó197190189576
22Dagmar Bilkova198187189574
22Aranka Binder197189188574
22Anni Bisso194190190574
22Sabina Fuchs196186192574
26Anna Maloukhina193186194573
26Yoko Minamoto196183194573
28Mladenka Malenica196190186572
29Sara Antunes195185191571
30Jarintorn Dangpiam193183194570
30Eva Forian191188191570
32Carla Ribeiro197180191568
32Won Gyeong-suk194185189568
34Hanne Vataker195185186566
35Malini Wickramasinghe195193177565
36Pushpamali Ramanayake194188182564
37Malgorzata Książkiewicz194181188563
38Cristina Antolin189186182557
OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

RankAthleteQualFinalTotalNotes
58799.1686.1OR
58595.1680.1
58990.8679.8
458495.2679.2
558494.8678.8
658392.8675.8
758391.0674.0
858192.3673.3
OR Olympic record

Sources

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.