Men's 50 metre rifle prone

50 metre rifle prone

50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle caliber rifle...

 (then known as small-bore free rifle) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1988 Summer Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...

. It was the first Olympic three positions competition to feature final shooting. Miroslav Varga

Miroslav Varga

Miroslav Varga is a sports shooter and Olympic Champion for Czechoslovakia. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul....

 equalled the world record with a perfect 600 in the qualification round, and retained half of his two-point pre-final lead until the end of the competition.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Miroslav Varga Miroslav Varga Miroslav Varga is a sports shooter and Olympic Champion for Czechoslovakia. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul....		600	Q EWR OR
2	Cha Young-chul		598	Q
3	Pavel Soukenik		598	Q
4	Alister Allan Alister Allan Alister Millar "Jock" Allan, born 28 January 1944 in Freuchie, Fife, Scotland is an Olympic medal-winning Scottish rifleman who represented Great Britain at five Olympics between 1968 and 1992 ....		598	Q
5	Attila Záhonyi		597	Q
6	Xu Xiaoguang		597	Q
7	Bernd Rücker		597	Q
8	Michael Ashcroft		597	Q
9	Jan Gundersrud		596
10	Stephen Petterson Stephen Petterson Stephen Petterson is a competitive rifle shooter from New Zealand. A veteran of four Olympic Games and five Commonwealth Games, he has won a total of four gold medals and a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games.He was the flag bearer for New Zealand at the closing ceremony of the 1994...		596
11	Per G. Hansson		596
11	Stefan Lövbom		596
11	Goran Maksimović Goran Maksimović Goran Maksimović is a sports shooter and Olympic Champion for Yugoslavia. He won a gold medal in the 10 metre air rifle event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. At the 1996 and 2000 Olympics he competed for Serbia and Montenegro....		596
11	Alan Smith		596
15	Klavs Jørn Christensen		595
15	Glenn Dubis		595
15	Lothar Heinrich		595
15	Olaf Hess		595
15	Kirill Ivanov		595
15	Jiang Rong		595
15	Vladimir Lvov		595
15	Kaoru Matsuo		595
15	Andreas Wolfram		595
24	Pierre Alain Dufaux		594
24	Juha Hirvi Juha Hirvi Juha Hirvi is a Finnish sport shooter. He won the silver medal in men's 50 metre rifle three positions at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He has also won two silver medals in ISSF World Shooting Championships...		594
24	Kwak Jung-hoon		594
24	Eduard Papirov		594
24	Norbert Sturny		594
24	Kurt Thune		594
24	Patrick Vamplew		594
24	Webster Wright		594
32	Jean-Pierre Amat Jean-Pierre Amat Jean-Pierre Amat is a French sports shooter who competed and won a gold meal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the small bore rifle, three positions.-Current world record in 50 m rifle prone :-References:...		593
32	Pascal Bessy		593
32	Jorge González		593
32	Georgi Poliakov		593
36	Jorge Bracero		592
36	Malcolm Cooper Malcolm Cooper Malcolm Douglas Cooper, MBE, was a British sport shooter and founder of Accuracy International. , he is the only shooter to win defend the gold medal in the Olympic 50 metre rifle three positions event....		592
36	Jørgen Just Herlufsen		592
39	Adilbishiin Sangidorj		591
39	José Alvarez		591
41	Donald Brook		590
41	Kurt Hillenbrand		590
41	Julio Cesar Iemma		590
41	Petar Zaprianov		590
45	Sandor Bereczky		589
45	Albert Deuring		589
47	Srecko Pejovic		588
47	Geir Skirbekk Geir Skirbekk Geir Skirbekk is a Norwegian sport shooter, World Champion and Olympic competitor.He was a member of the winning team in 300 metre free rifle standing at the ISSF World Championships in Skövde in 1986....		588
49	Daya Rajasinghe		587
50	Bruce Meredith		586
51	Ryohei Koba		584
51	Itzchak Yonassi		584
53	Roland Jacoby		583
54	Jadaan Tarjam Al Shammari		582
55	Kenneth Johnston		580

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

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
		600	103.9	703.9	OR
		598	104.8	702.8
		597	104.9	701.9
4		598	103.2	701.2
5		598	102.9	700.9
6		597	103.6	700.6
7		597	103.5	700.5
8		597	101.5	698.5

OR Olympic record