| Event: | Men's 50 metre rifle three positions |
| Games: | 2008 Summer |
| Date: | August 17, 2008 |
| Competitors: | 49 |
| Nations: | 31 |
| Goldnoc: | CHN |
| Silvernoc: | UKR |
| Bronzenoc: | SLO |
| Win Label: | Winning score |
| Win Value: | 1272.5 |
| Next: | 2012 |
The Men's 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 17 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall, the last shooting event of the Beijing Olympics.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 120 shots with a .22 Long Rifle at 50 metres distance. 40 shots were fired each from the standing, kneeling, and prone positions. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.
The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots, all from the standing position. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 130 shots was used to determine the final ranking.
The existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Prone | Stand | Kneel | Total | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rajmond Debevec | 399 | 386 | 391 | 1176 | Q | ||
| 2 | Matthew Emmons | 399 | 389 | 387 | 1175 | Q | ||
| 3 | Jury Sukhorukov | 398 | 384 | 392 | 1174 | Q | ||
| 4 | Qiu Jian | 394 | 387 | 392 | 1173 | Q | ||
| 5 | Vebjørn Berg | 398 | 383 | 391 | 1172 | Q | ||
| 6 | Valérian Sauveplane | 396 | 384 | 392 | 1172 | Q | ||
| 7 | Thomas Farnik | 391 | 386 | 394 | 1171 | Q | ||
| 8 | Mario Knögler | 395 | 386 | 389 | 1170 | Q | ||
| 9 | Marco De Nicolo | 396 | 389 | 384 | 1169 | |||
| 10 | Maik Eckhardt | 398 | 380 | 391 | 1169 | |||
| 11 | Stevan Pletikosić | 398 | 378 | 392 | 1168 | |||
| 12 | Juha Hirvi | 397 | 385 | 386 | 1168 | |||
| 13 | Gagan Narang | 394 | 389 | 384 | 1167 | |||
| 14 | Artem Khadjibekov | 391 | 383 | 393 | 1167 | |||
| 15 | Han Jin-seop | 392 | 384 | 391 | 1167 | |||
| 16 | Toshikazu Yamashita | 399 | 382 | 386 | 1167 | |||
| 17 | Michael Winter | 396 | 385 | 385 | 1166 | |||
| 18 | Sergei Kovalenko | 394 | 382 | 390 | 1166 | |||
| 19 | Artur Ayvazyan | 394 | 385 | 386 | 1165 | |||
| 20 | Nemanja Mirosavljev | 398 | 381 | 386 | 1165 | |||
| 21 | Beat Müller | 395 | 380 | 389 | 1164 | |||
| 22 | Jason Parker | 393 | 384 | 387 | 1164 | |||
| 23 | Václav Haman | 391 | 380 | 392 | 1163 | |||
| 24 | Jia Zhanbo | 394 | 378 | 391 | 1163 | |||
| 25 | Péter Sidi | 394 | 385 | 384 | 1163 | |||
| 26 | Sanjeev Rajput | 395 | 380 | 387 | 1162 | |||
| 27 | Yuriy Yurkov | 395 | 382 | 385 | 1162 | |||
| 28 | Henri Häkkinen | 390 | 381 | 390 | 1161 | |||
| 29 | Vitali Bubnovich | 394 | 380 | 387 | 1161 | |||
| 30 | Espen Berg-Knutsen | 396 | 374 | 390 | 1160 | |||
| 31 | Park Bong-duk | 398 | 373 | 388 | 1159 | |||
| 32 | Vitaliy Dovgun | 398 | 381 | 379 | 1158 | |||
| 33 | Robert Kraskowski | 395 | 373 | 388 | 1156 | |||
| 34 | Sergei Martynov | 398 | 376 | 382 | 1156 | |||
| 35 | Marcel Bürge | 396 | 373 | 386 | 1155 | |||
| 36 | Doron Egozi | 396 | 375 | 384 | 1155 | |||
| 37 | Jozef Gönci | 394 | 376 | 384 | 1154 | |||
| 38 | Gil Simkovitch | 395 | 368 | 390 | 1153 | |||
| 39 | Niccolò Campriani | 395 | 377 | 381 | 1153 | |||
| 40 | Benjamin Burge | 392 | 373 | 387 | 1152 | |||
| 41 | Josselin Henry | 388 | 373 | 390 | 1151 | |||
| 42 | Jonathan Hammond | 395 | 370 | 383 | 1148 | |||
| 43 | Nedžad Fazlija | 393 | 376 | 379 | 1148 | |||
| 44 | Petar Gorša | 393 | 377 | 378 | 1148 | |||
| 45 | Matthew Robert Inabinet | 389 | 376 | 376 | 1141 | |||
| 46 | Mohamed Amer | 390 | 369 | 376 | 1135 | |||
| 47 | Liecer Perez | 394 | 373 | 367 | 1134 | |||
| 48 | Ruslan Ismailov | 388 | 367 | 375 | 1130 | |||
| 49 | Siddique Umer | 390 | 359 | 367 | 1116 | |||
| Tomáš Jeřábek | DNS |
DNS Did not start – Q Qualified for final
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1173 | 10.2 | 8.8 | 10.5 | 10.6 | 9.3 | 9.4 | 10.0 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.0 | 99.5 | 1272.5 | |||
| 1174 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.1 | 9.1 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 10.4 | 9.8 | 98.4 | 1272.4 | |||
| 1176 | 7.7 | 10.2 | 7.9 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 10.5 | 9.2 | 10.0 | 9.9 | 10.8 | 95.7 | 1271.7 | |||
| 4 | 1175 | 9.7 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 10.1 | 10.5 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 9.8 | 4.4 | 95.3 | 1270.3 | ||
| 5 | 1171 | 10.0 | 9.4 | 9.7 | 9.4 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 9.9 | 10.1 | 9.4 | 10.3 | 97.9 | 1268.9 | ||
| 6 | 1170 | 8.2 | 10.1 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 9.3 | 98.4 | 1268.4 | ||
| 7 | 1172 | 8.8 | 9.2 | 10.3 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 7.9 | 9.5 | 9.2 | 10.0 | 95.1 | 1267.1 | ||
| 8 | 1172 | 9.4 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 10.6 | 8.0 | 10.2 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 10.0 | 9.8 | 94.5 | 1266.5 |