Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre rifle three positions

Women's 50 metre rifle three positions
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date September 21, 1988
Competitors 37 from 22 nations
Winning score 685.6 (OR)
Medalists
  Silvia Sperber   West Germany
  Vesela Letcheva   Bulgaria
  Valentina Cherkasova   Soviet Union
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Shooting at the
1988 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions men women
50 m rifle prone men
10 m air rifle   men   women
Pistol
50 m pistol men
25 m pistol women
25 m rapid fire pistol men
10 m air pistol men women
Shotgun
Trap mixed
Skeet mixed
Running target
50 m running target men

Women's 50 metre rifle three positions (then known as standard rifle) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. It was the first Olympic three positions competition to feature final shooting.

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country Prone Stand Kneel Total Notes
1 Silvia Sperber West Germany 200 193 197 590 Q OR
2 Valentina Cherkasova Soviet Union 198 193 195 586 Q
3 Anna Maloukhina Soviet Union 198 191 196 585 Q
4 Katja Klepp East Germany 199 187 198 584 Q
5 Sharon Bowes Canada 196 194 194 584 Q
6 Vesela Letcheva Bulgaria 199 192 192 583 Q
7 Anita Karlsson Sweden 198 193 192 583 Q
8 Launi Meili United States 197 190 195 582 Q
9 Irene Dufaux Switzerland 198 192 191 581
10 Pirjo Peltola Finland 196 188 196 580
11 Nonka Matova Bulgaria 199 187 194 580
11 Selma Sonnet West Germany 197 190 193 580
13 Wanda Jewell United States 197 186 196 579
13 May-Irene Olsen Norway 196 190 193 579
13 Zhang Qiuping China 199 184 196 579
16 Sylvia Baldessarini Austria 197 190 191 578
16 Dagmar Bilková Czechoslovakia 193 189 196 578
16 Lenka Koloušková Czechoslovakia 199 186 193 578
19 Christin Ashcroft Schulze Canada 199 182 196 577
20 Dorothee Deuring Austria 198 184 194 576
20 Eva Joo Hungary 198 189 189 576
20 Zhou Danhong China 198 184 194 576
23 Soma Dutta India 198 183 194 575
23 Dominique Esnault France 200 185 190 575
23 Lee Hye-kyung South Korea 199 187 189 575
26 Eva Forian Hungary 198 186 189 573
27 Sirpa Ylönen Finland 197 186 189 572
28 Alison Feast Australia 195 184 191 570
28 Mladenka Malenica Yugoslavia 193 184 193 570
30 Isabelle Heberle France 195 183 190 568
30 Kim Young-mi South Korea 196 185 187 568
32 Kyoko Kinoshita Japan 193 184 189 566
33 Carina Jansson Sweden 199 172 193 565
34 Gaby Bühlmann Switzerland 195 180 186 561
34 Thiranun Jinda Thailand 194 176 191 561
36 Sarah Cooper Great Britain 198 168 191 557
37 Siri Landsem Norway 195 179 182 556

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Notes
 Silvia Sperber (FRG) 590 95.6 685.6 OR
 Vesela Letcheva (BUL) 583 100.2 683.2
 Valentina Cherkasova (URS) 586 95.4 681.4
4  Katja Klepp (GDR) 584 96.5 680.5
5  Sharon Bowes (CAN) 584 96.5 680.5
6  Anna Maloukhina (URS) 585 93.4 678.4
7  Launi Meili (USA) 582 94.5 676.5
8  Anita Karlsson (SWE) 583 93.4 676.4

OR Olympic record

References