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 free rifle) was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

. Christian Klees

Christian Klees

Christian Klees is a German former sport shooter, the only shooter since the 1989 target change to have achieved the maximum score in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the Olympic Games. He did this in at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...

 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

Sergey Belyayev

Sergey Belyayev is a Kazakhstani shooter, who won two silver medals in 50 metre rifle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.-References:*...

 surpassed Jozef Gönci

Jozef Gönci

Jozef Gönci is a Slovak sport shooter, specialising in the 50 m Rifle and 10 m Air Rifle. Gönci won independent Slovakia's first ever Olympic Medal, a bronze in Atlanta in 1996. He won another bronze medal eight years later at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.- External links :*...

 to win the silver medal.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Christian Klees Christian Klees Christian Klees is a German former sport shooter, the only shooter since the 1989 target change to have achieved the maximum score in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the Olympic Games. He did this in at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...		600	Q EWR OR
2	Jozef Gönci Jozef Gönci Jozef Gönci is a Slovak sport shooter, specialising in the 50 m Rifle and 10 m Air Rifle. Gönci won independent Slovakia's first ever Olympic Medal, a bronze in Atlanta in 1996. He won another bronze medal eight years later at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.- External links :*...		599	Q
3	Sergei Martynov Sergei Martynov (sport shooter) Sergei Martynov is a Belarusian 50 m Rifle shooter, originally from Russia....		598	Q
4	Sergey Belyayev Sergey Belyayev Sergey Belyayev is a Kazakhstani shooter, who won two silver medals in 50 metre rifle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.-References:*...		598	Q
5	Bill Meek		597	Q
6	Jorge González		597	Q
7	Lee Eun-chul Lee Eun-chul Lee Eun-chul is a South Korean rifle shooter who was the first Korean to compete at five Olympic Games . He reached the 1992 and 1996 Olympic finals in 50 metre rifle prone, the first time advancing from 8th position to winning the gold medal...		596	Q (6th: 100)
8	Milan Mach		596	Q (6th: 99)
9	Rajmond Debevec Rajmond Debevec Rajmond Debevec was born in Postojna, Slovenia, a part of the former Yugoslavia, on March 29, 1963. He became involved in shooting sports in 1971 and became a member of Junior national team in 1979. He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in Junior European Championship with air rifle...		596	(6th: 98)
9	Sergei Kovalenko		596	(6th: 98)
11	Václav Bečvář		595
11	Robert Kraskowski		595
11	Li Wenjie		595
11	Yuri Lomov		595
11	Oleg Mykhaylov		595
11	Igor Pirekeev		595
11	Stevan Pletikosić Stevan Pletikosic Stevan Pletikosić is a sport shooter from Serbia. While still a junior, he won a bronze medal in Men's 50 m Rifle Prone in the 1992 Summer Olympics...		595
11	Bernd Rücker		595
11	Zsolt Vari		595
20	Chen Xianjun		594
20	Tadeusz Czerwinski		594
20	Artem Khadjibekov Artem Khadjibekov Artem Aleksandrovich Khadjibekov is a Russian sport shooter, specializing in the rifles event. He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games and silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in the 10 metre air rifle event.He also competed at 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.-Olympic...		594
20	Kurt Koch		594
20	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....		594
20	Boris Polak		594
26	Jens Harskov		593
26	Jaco Henn		593
26	Guy Starik Guy Starik Guy Starik is an Israeli sport shooter who has competed in four Olympics. He has won gold medals in shooting at both the European Championships and at four World Cups, and shares the world record in the 50 meter rifle prone competition....		593
26	Andreas Zumbach		593
30	Michel Bury		592
30	Michel Dion		592
30	Naoki Kurita		592
30	Georgi Nekhayev		592
30	Harald Stenvaag Harald Stenvaag Harald Stenvaag is a Norwegian rifle shooter who started competing internationally at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in Switzerland in 1974. He has represented Norway in the Summer Olympics 6 times, and has two Olympic medals...		592
30	Eric Uptagrafft Eric Uptagrafft Eric Allan Uptagrafft is an American sport shooter.He was born in Spokane, Washington, and lives in Firestone, Colorado. He competed for the United States in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50, coming in tied for 30th...		592
36	Cha Young-chul		591
36	Nils Petter Håkedal		591
36	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...		591
39	Roger Chassat		590
39	Torben Grimmel		590
39	Wolfram Waibel		590
42	Thomas Farnik Thomas Farnik Thomas Farnik, born 6 January 1967 in Vienna, is an Austrian rifle shooter.He was twelve years old when his father introduced him to shooting. He started with a rifle, and his father remained involved with his early training....		589
42	Peter Gabrielsson		589
42	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...		589
42	Bruce Meredith		589
42	Masaru Yanagida		589
47	Ralph Rodriguez		588
48	Jonathan Stern		587
49	Anuj Desai		586
50	Khalaf Al Khatri		584
51	Nedžad Fazlija Nedžad Fazlija Nedžad Fazlija is a Bosnian Olympic sports shooter. He was born in Foča, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia.So far the only male shooter to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Olympics, he was a part of the Bosnian Olympic team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004...		583
52	Gary Duff		580

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

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
		600	104.8	704.8	WR OR
		598	105.3	703.3
		599	102.9	701.9
4		597	104.7	701.7
5		596	104.9	700.9
6		598	101.6	699.6
7		596	103.1	699.1
8		597	101.9	698.9

OR Olympic record – WR World record