Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone

Men's 50 metre rifle prone
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date19 September 1988
Competitors55 from 33 nations
Winning score703.9 (OR)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Miroslav Varga  Czechoslovakia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Cha Young-chul  South Korea
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Attila Záhonyi  Hungary
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Shooting at the
1988 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positionsmenwomen
50 m rifle pronemen
10 m air riflemenwomen
Pistol
50 m pistolmen
25 m pistolwomen
25 m rapid fire pistolmen
10 m air pistolmenwomen
Shotgun
Trapmixed
Skeetmixed
Running target
50 m running targetmen

Men's 50 metre rifle prone (then known as small-bore free rifle) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. It was the first Olympic three positions competition to feature final shooting. Miroslav Varga 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.[1]

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country Score Notes
1 Miroslav Varga  Czechoslovakia 600 Q EWR OR
2 Cha Young-chul  South Korea 598 Q
3 Pavel Soukeník  Czechoslovakia 598 Q
4 Alister Allan  Great Britain 598 Q
5 Attila Záhonyi  Hungary 597 Q
6 Xu Xiaoguang  China 597 Q
7 Bernd Rücker  West Germany 597 Q
8 Michael Ashcroft  Canada 597 Q
9 Jan Gundersrud  Norway 596
10 Stephen Petterson  New Zealand 596
11 Per G. Hansson  Sweden 596
11 Stefan Lövbom  Sweden 596
11 Goran Maksimović  Yugoslavia 596
11 Alan Smith  Australia 596
15 Klavs Jørn Christensen  Denmark 595
15 Glenn Dubis  United States 595
15 Lothar Heinrich  Austria 595
15 Olaf Hess  East Germany 595
15 Kirill Ivanov  Soviet Union 595
15 Jiang Rong  China 595
15 Vladimir Lvov  Soviet Union 595
15 Kaoru Matsuo  Japan 595
15 Andreas Wolfram  East Germany 595
24 Pierre-Alain Dufaux  Switzerland 594
24 Juha Hirvi  Finland 594
24 Kwak Jung-hoon  South Korea 594
24 Eduard Papirov  Israel 594
24 Norbert Sturny  Switzerland 594
24 Kurt Thune  Finland 594
24 Patrick Vamplew  Canada 594
24 Webster Wright  United States 594
32 Jean-Pierre Amat  France 593
32 Pascal Bessy  France 593
32 Jorge González  Spain 593
32 Georgi Poliakov  Bulgaria 593
36 Jorge Bracero  Puerto Rico 592
36 Malcolm Cooper  Great Britain 592
36 Jørgen Just Herlufsen  Denmark 592
39 Adilbishiin Sangidorj  Mongolia 591
39 José Álvarez  Mexico 591
41 Donald Brook  Australia 590
41 Kurt Hillenbrand  West Germany 590
41 Julio César Iemma  Argentina 590
41 Petar Zaprianov  Bulgaria 590
45 Sandor Bereczky  Hungary 589
45 Albert Deuring  Austria 589
47 Srecko Pejovic  Yugoslavia 588
47 Geir Skirbekk  Norway 588
49 Daya Rajasinghe  Sri Lanka 587
50 Bruce Meredith  Virgin Islands 586
51 Ryohei Koba  Japan 584
51 Itzchak Yonassi  Israel 584
53 Roland Jacoby  Luxembourg 583
54 Jadaan Tarjam Al Shammari  Qatar 582
55 Kenneth Johnston  Zimbabwe 580

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

Final

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Miroslav Varga (TCH) 600 103.9 703.9 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Cha Young-chul (KOR) 598 104.8 702.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Attila Záhonyi (HUN) 597 104.9 701.9
4  Pavel Soukeník (TCH) 598 103.2 701.2
5  Alister Allan (GBR) 598 102.9 700.9
6  Xu Xiaoguang (CHN) 597 103.6 700.6
7  Bernd Rücker (FRG) 597 103.5 700.5
8  Michael Ashcroft (CAN) 597 101.5 698.5

OR Olympic record

References

  1. ^ "Shooting at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2020.

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