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

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]

Men's 50 metre rifle prone
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
VenueWolf Creek Shooting Complex
Date25 July 1996
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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Qualification round

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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

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Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Notes
    Christian Klees (GER) 600 104.8 704.8 WR OR
    Sergey Belyayev (KAZ) 598 105.3 703.3
    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

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  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.

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