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

Men's 50 metre rifle three positions
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue Wolf Creek Shooting Complex
Competitors 45 from 30 nations
Winning score 1273.9 (OR)
Medalists
  Jean-Pierre Amat   France
  Sergey Belyayev   Kazakhstan
  Wolfram Waibel   Austria
«1992 2000»
Shooting at the
1996 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 men
Double trap men women
Skeet men
Running target
10 m running target men

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.

Qualification round

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

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Shoot-off Notes
 Jean-Pierre Amat (FRA) 1175 98.9 1273.9 OR
 Sergey Belyayev (KAZ) 1175 97.3 1272.3
 Wolfram Waibel (AUT) 1170 99.6 1269.6
4  Goran Maksimović (YUG) 1173 95.8 1268.8
5  Jozef Gönci (SVK) 1166 101.7 1267.7 10.0
6  Rob Harbison (USA) 1170 97.7 1267.7 8.6
7  Václav Bečvář (CZE) 1168 96.0 1264.0
8  Sergei Martynov (BLR) 1166 97.9 1263.9

OR Olympic record

References