Shooting at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone

Men's 50 metre rifle, prone at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Elysian Park, Los Angeles, California
Date	August 13
Competitors	26 from 9 nations
Medalists
Bertil Rönnmark  Sweden Gustavo Huet  Mexico Zoltán Soós-Ruszka Hradetzky  Hungary

The men's 50 metre rifle prone was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1932 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth appearance of the event. The competition was held on August 13, 1932. 26 shooters from 9 nations competed.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bertil Rönnmark (SWE)	Gustavo Huet (MEX)	Zoltán Soós-Ruszka Hradetzky (HUN)

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records prior to the 1932 Summer Olympics.

World Record	-	none	-	-
Olympic Record	398(*)	Pierre Coquelin de Lisle	Paris (FRA)	June 23, 1924

There was no official world record registered.

(*) 400 rings possible

Results

A maximum of three competitors per nation were allowed.

The competition was held over 15 series of two shots, so every shooter had 30 shots. The maximum score was 300. The shot-off was again a compete series. No ties were shot-off after the first three places.

Antal Barát-Lemberkovits missed one shot when he fired on the target of Gustavo Huet. This ten rings would have given him the gold medal.

After the original competition Bertil Rönnmark gave the rest of his rounds of ammunition to other marksmen not thinking about the possibility of a shoot-off. So he had to borrow the rounds for the final shoot-off to win the gold medal.

Zoltán Soós-Ruszka Hradetzky set the best performance in the bronze medal shoot-off with 296 points, but, according to the IOC's report, the Olympic record was credited to Bertil Rönnmark and Gustavo Huet for their 294 points in the final.^[2]

Place	Shooter	Total	Shoot off
1	Bertil Rönnmark (SWE)	294	294
2	Gustavo Huet (MEX)	294	290
3	Zoltán Soós-Ruszka Hradetzky (HUN)	293	296
4	Mario Zorzi (ITA)	293	293
5	Gustaf Andersson (SWE)	292
	William Harding (USA)	292
	Francisco António Real (POR)	292
	Karl August Larsson (SWE)	292
9	Julio Castro (ESP)	291
10	Carlos Guerrero (MEX)	290
11	Tibor Tary (HUN)	289
	Gustavo Salinas (MEX)	289
13	Ugo Cantelli (ITA)	288
	Edward Shumaker (USA)	288
15	Rom Stanifer (USA)	287
16	Antonio Daneri (ARG)	286
	Amedeo Bruni (ITA)	286
18	Antal Barát-Lemberkovits (HUN)	285
19	Manoel Braga (BRA)	284
20	Manuel Guerra (POR)	282
	Antônio Guimarães (BRA)	282
22	Sigfrido Vogel (ARG)	281
23	José Maria Ferreira (POR)	279
24	José Castro (BRA)	277
25	Buenaventura Bagaria (ESP)	274
26	Manuel Corrales (ESP)	268

References

1. "Shooting at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
2. "Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved December 11, 2020.

External links

• Official Report
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved December 17, 2007.