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

Event:	Men's 50 metre rifle three positions
Games:	1996 Summer
Date:	27 July 1996
Competitors:	45
Nations:	30
Goldnoc:	FRA
Silvernoc:	KAZ
Bronzenoc:	AUT
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	1273.9 (OR)
Next:	2000

Men's 50 metre rifle three positions (then known as free rifle) was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Both Jean-Pierre Amat and Sergey Belyayev reached a new Olympic record of 1175 points in the qualification round; Amat shot the better final and won the gold medal.^[1]

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Prone	Stand	Kneel	Total	Notes
1	Jean-Pierre Amat		396	387	392	1175	Q OR
1	Sergey Belyayev		399	382	394	1175	Q OR
3	Goran Maksimović		394	387	392	1173	Q
4	Rob Harbison		394	388	388	1170	Q
4	Wolfram Waibel, Jr.		394	389	387	1170	Q
6	Václav Bečvář		398	381	389	1168	Q
7	Jozef Gönci		393	382	391	1166	Q
7	Sergei Martynov		397	377	392	1166	Q
9	Rajmond Debevec		397	381	388	1166
10	Glenn Dubis		398	379	388	1165
10	Maik Eckhardt		397	382	386	1165
10	Ning Lijia		397	377	391	1165
13	Thomas Farnik		393	382	389	1164
13	Juha Hirvi		397	379	388	1164
13	Artem Khadjibekov		393	384	387	1164
13	Hrachya Petikyan		396	379	389	1164
13	Guy Starik		396	379	389	1164
18	Milan Bakeš		395	378	390	1163
18	Vyacheslav Bochkarev		398	380	385	1163
18	Nedžad Fazlija		395	377	391	1163
18	Lee Eun-chul		395	377	391	1163
22	Peter Gabrielsson		387	385	390	1162
22	Jaco Henn		397	382	383	1162
22	Robert Kraskowski		394	375	393	1162
22	Boris Polak		398	379	385	1162
26	Oleg Mykhaylov		396	382	383	1161
27	Zsolt Vari		393	374	393	1160
28	Nils Petter Håkedal		398	377	383	1158
28	Jens Harskov		399	368	391	1158
28	Anatoli Klimenko		391	380	387	1158
28	Masaru Yanagida		395	383	380	1158
32	Tadeusz Czerwinski		396	375	386	1157
32	Yuri Lomov		396	377	384	1157
32	Andreas Zumbach		392	377	388	1157
35	Roger Chassat		392	385	379	1156
35	Stevan Pletikosić		398	369	389	1156
37	Jorge González		399	368	388	1155
37	Christian Klees		397	376	382	1155
37	Naoki Kurita		400	374	381	1155
40	Cha Young-chul		393	375	386	1154
41	Harald Stenvaag		395	380	378	1153
42	Chen Xianjun		399	369	380	1148
43	Michel Dion		396	365	384	1145
44	Ángel Velarte		392	363	387	1142
45	Ricardo Rusticucci		392	364	383	1139

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Shoot-off	Notes
		1175	98.9	1273.9		OR
		1175	97.3	1272.3
		1170	99.6	1269.6
4		1173	95.8	1268.8
5		1166	101.7	1267.7	10.0
6		1170	97.7	1267.7	8.6
7		1168	96.0	1264.0
8		1166	97.9	1263.9

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: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181325/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/SHO/mens-small-bore-rifle-three-positions-50-metres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 28 February 2020.