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

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, Jr.	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	Ángel 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
01 !	Jean-Pierre Amat (FRA)	1175	98.9	1273.9		OR
02 !	Sergey Belyayev (KAZ)	1175	97.3	1272.3
03 !	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