Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre rifle prone
Games:	1996 Summer
Date:	25 July 1996
Competitors:	52
Nations:	36
Goldnoc:	GER
Silvernoc:	KAZ
Bronzenoc:	SVK
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	704.8 WR
Next:	2000

Men's 50 metre rifle prone (then known as free rifle) was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Christian Klees shot a perfect 600 in the qualification round and set a new World record after 104.8 points (of maximum 109.0) in the final. With an even better final round, Sergey Belyayev surpassed Jozef Gönci to win the silver medal.^[1]

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Christian Klees		600	Q EWR OR
2	Jozef Gönci		599	Q
3	Sergei Martynov		598	Q
4	Sergey Belyayev		598	Q
5	Bill Meek		597	Q
6	Jorge González		597	Q
7	Lee Eun-chul		596	Q (6th: 100)
8	Milan Mach		596	Q (6th: 99)
9	Rajmond Debevec		596	(6th: 98)
9	Sergei Kovalenko		596	(6th: 98)
11	Václav Bečvář		595
11	Robert Kraskowski		595
11	Li Wenjie		595
11	Yuri Lomov		595
11	Oleg Mykhaylov		595
11	Igor Pirekeev		595
11	Stevan Pletikosić		595
11	Bernd Rücker		595
11	Zsolt Vari		595
20	Chen Xianjun		594
20	Tadeusz Czerwinski		594
20	Artem Khadjibekov		594
20	Kurt Koch		594
20	Goran Maksimović		594
20	Boris Polak		594
26	Jens Harskov		593
26	Jaco Henn		593
26	Guy Starik		593
26	Andreas Zumbach		593
30	Michel Bury		592
30	Michel Dion		592
30	Naoki Kurita		592
30	Georgi Nekhayev		592
30	Harald Stenvaag		592
30	Eric Uptagrafft		592
36	Cha Young-chul		591
36	Nils Petter Håkedal		591
36	Stephen Petterson		591
39	Roger Chassat		590
39	Torben Grimmel		590
39	Wolfram Waibel		590
42	Thomas Farnik		589
42	Peter Gabrielsson		589
42	Juha Hirvi		589
42	Bruce Meredith		589
42	Masaru Yanagida		589
47	Ralph Rodriguez		588
48	Jonathan Stern		587
49	Anuj Desai		586
50	Khalaf Al Khatri		584
51	Nedžad Fazlija		583
52	Gary Duff		580

EWR Equalled World record – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
		600	104.8	704.8	WR OR
		598	105.3	703.3
		599	102.9	701.9
4		597	104.7	701.7
5		596	104.9	700.9
6		598	101.6	699.6
7		596	103.1	699.1
8		597	101.9	698.9

OR Olympic record – WR World 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: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181335/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/SHO/mens-small-bore-rifle-prone-50-metres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 28 February 2020.