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

Sports shooting at the Olympics
Men's 50 metre rifle prone
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
VenueWolf Creek Shooting Complex
Competitors52 from 36 nations
Winning score704.8 WR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Christian Klees  Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sergey Belyayev  Kazakhstan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jozef Gönci  Slovakia
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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  Germany 600 Q EWR OR
2 Jozef Gönci  Slovakia 599 Q
3 Sergei Martynov  Belarus 598 Q
4 Sergey Belyayev  Kazakhstan 598 Q
5 Bill Meek  United States 597 Q
6 Jorge González  Spain 597 Q
7 Lee Eun-chul  South Korea 596 Q (6th: 100)
8 Milan Mach  Czech Republic 596 Q (6th: 99)
9 Rajmond Debevec  Slovenia 596 (6th: 98)
9 Sergei Kovalenko  Russia 596 (6th: 98)
11 Václav Bečvář  Czech Republic 595
11 Robert Kraskowski  Poland 595
11 Li Wenjie  China 595
11 Yuri Lomov  Kyrgyzstan 595
11 Oleg Mykhaylov  Ukraine 595
11 Igor Pirekeev  Turkmenistan 595
11 Stevan Pletikosić  FR Yugoslavia 595
11 Bernd Rücker  Germany 595
11 Zsolt Vari  Hungary 595
20 Chen Xianjun  China 594
20 Tadeusz Czerwinski  Poland 594
20 Artem Khadjibekov  Russia 594
20 Kurt Koch  Switzerland 594
20 Goran Maksimović  FR Yugoslavia 594
20 Boris Polak  Israel 594
26 Jens Harskov  Denmark 593
26 Jaco Henn  South Africa 593
26 Guy Starik  Israel 593
26 Andreas Zumbach  Switzerland 593
30 Michel Bury  France 592
30 Michel Dion  Canada 592
30 Naoki Kurita  Japan 592
30 Georgi Nekhayev  Belarus 592
30 Harald Stenvaag  Norway 592
30 Eric Uptagrafft  United States 592
36 Cha Young-chul  South Korea 591
36 Nils Petter Håkedal  Norway 591
36 Stephen Petterson  New Zealand 591
39 Roger Chassat  France 590
39 Torben Grimmel  Denmark 590
39 Wolfram Waibel  Austria 590
42 Thomas Farnik  Austria 589
42 Peter Gabrielsson  Sweden 589
42 Juha Hirvi  Finland 589
42 Bruce Meredith  Virgin Islands 589
42 Masaru Yanagida  Japan 589
47 Ralph Rodriguez  Puerto Rico 588
48 Jonathan Stern  Great Britain 587
49 Anuj Desai  Kenya 586
50 Khalaf Al Khatri  Oman 584
51 Nedžad Fazlija  Bosnia and Herzegovina 583
52 Gary Duff  Ireland 580

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

Final

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Christian Klees (GER) 600 104.8 704.8 WR OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Sergey Belyayev (KAZ) 598 105.3 703.3
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Jozef Gönci (SVK) 599 102.9 701.9
4  Jorge González (ESP) 597 104.7 701.7
5  Milan Mach (CZE) 596 104.9 700.9
6  Sergei Martynov (BLR) 598 101.6 699.6
7  Lee Eun-chul (KOR) 596 103.1 699.1
8  Bill Meek (USA) 597 101.9 698.9

OR Olympic record – WR World record

References

  1. ^ "Shooting at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2020.

Sources

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