The men's 50 metre rifle three positions competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on 22 August at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.[1]
| Men's 50 metre rifle three positions at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre | ||||||||||||
| Date | 22 August 2004 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 40 from 29 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 1264.5 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 120 shots with a .22 Long Rifle at 50 metres distance. 40 shots were fired each from the standing, kneeling, and prone positions. Scores for each shot were in increments of 1, with a maximum score of 10.
The top 8 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired an additional 10 shots, all from the standing position. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 130 shots was used to determine the final ranking.
23-year-old U.S. shooter Matthew Emmons commanded his lead throughout the rifle three positions finale for a possible historic small-bore double at these Games, until he aimed at the wrong target on his final shot, as a result of a crossfire and a nullified score, that stumbled him down the leaderboard to a disastrous eighth with 1257.4. Emmons' costly mistake thereby upgraded Chinese shooter Jia Zhanbo to an Olympic gold with a score of 1264.5.[2][3] The silver medal was awarded to Emmons' fellow marksman Michael Anti at 1263.1, while Austria's Christian Planer, whose target Emmons hit, held off a ferocious challenge from Slovenia's world record holder and defending Olympic champion Rajmond Debevec by a thin 0.2-point margin to take the bronze at 1262.8.[3][4]
Records edit
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| Qualification records | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record |  Rajmond Debevec (SLO) |
1186 | Munich, Germany | 29 August 1992 |
| Olympic record |  Rajmond Debevec (SLO) |
1177 | Sydney, Australia | 23 September 2000 |
| Final records | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | Rajmond Debevec (SLO) |
1287.9 (1186+101.9) | Munich, Germany | 29 August 1992 |
| Olympic record | Rajmond Debevec (SLO) |
1275.1 (1177+98.1) | Sydney, Australia | 23 September 2000 |
Qualification round edit
Prone position edit
Standing position edit
Kneeling position edit
Combined results edit
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Prone | Stand | Kneel | Total | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jia Zhanbo |  China
|
398 | 386 | 387 | 1171 | Q |
| 2 | Matthew Emmons |  United States
|
399 | 387 | 383 | 1169 | Q |
| 3 | Christian Planer |  Austria
|
396 | 381 | 390 | 1167 | Q |
| 4 | Artur Ayvazyan |  Ukraine
|
396 | 380 | 390 | 1166 | Q |
| 5 | Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia
|
397 | 384 | 385 | 1166 | Q |
| 6 | Thomas Farnik | Austria
|
395 | 383 | 387 | 1165 | Q |
| 7 | Michael Anti | United States
|
398 | 385 | 382 | 1165 | Q |
| 8 | Artem Khadjibekov |  Russia
|
397 | 374 | 393 | 1164 | Q |
| 9 | Jozef Gönci |  Slovakia
|
397 | 382 | 383 | 1162 | |
| 9 | Sergei Kovalenko | Russia
|
393 | 380 | 389 | 1162 | |
| 9 | Park Bong-duk |  South Korea
|
394 | 382 | 386 | 1162 | |
| 12 | Timothy Lowndes |  Australia
|
398 | 374 | 389 | 1161 | |
| 12 | Christian Lusch |  Germany
|
396 | 376 | 389 | 1161 | |
| 12 | Vyacheslav Skoromnov |  Uzbekistan
|
394 | 380 | 387 | 1161 | |
| 15 | Juha Hirvi |  Finland
|
396 | 378 | 386 | 1160 | |
| 16 | Tevarit Majchacheeap |  Thailand
|
388 | 385 | 386 | 1159 | |
| 16 | Masaru Yanagida |  Japan
|
394 | 381 | 384 | 1159 | |
| 18 | Marcel Bürge |  Switzerland
|
399 | 379 | 380 | 1158 | |
| 19 | Maik Eckhardt | Germany
|
397 | 377 | 383 | 1157 | |
| 19 | Liu Zhiwei | China
|
394 | 382 | 381 | 1157 | |
| 19 | Péter Sidi |  Hungary
|
398 | 381 | 378 | 1157 | |
| 22 | Espen Berg-Knutsen |  Norway
|
399 | 374 | 383 | 1156 | |
| 22 | Igor Pirekeev |  Turkmenistan
|
399 | 376 | 381 | 1156 | |
| 24 | Roger Hansson |  Sweden
|
391 | 378 | 386 | 1155 | |
| 24 | Tomáš Jeřábek |  Czech Republic
|
395 | 375 | 385 | 1155 | |
| 26 | Dick Boschman |  Netherlands
|
392 | 381 | 381 | 1154 | |
| 26 | Yuriy Sukhorukov | Ukraine
|
390 | 378 | 386 | 1154 | |
| 28 | Stevan Pletikosić |  Serbia and Montenegro
|
390 | 382 | 381 | 1153 | |
| 29 | Sergei Martynov |  Belarus
|
394 | 378 | 380 | 1152 | |
| 30 | Harald Stenvaag | Norway
|
396 | 368 | 385 | 1149 | |
| 31 | Václav Bečvář | Czech Republic
|
396 | 367 | 385 | 1148 | |
| 31 | Marco de Nicolo |  Italy
|
398 | 377 | 373 | 1148 | |
| 33 | Vitali Bubnovich | Belarus
|
393 | 369 | 382 | 1144 | |
| 33 | Nedžad Fazlija |  Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
388 | 381 | 375 | 1144 | |
| 35 | Sven Haglund | Sweden
|
393 | 372 | 377 | 1142 | |
| 36 | Roberto José Elias |  Mexico
|
389 | 376 | 372 | 1137 | |
| 36 | Ángel Velarte |  Argentina
|
389 | 368 | 380 | 1137 | |
| 38 | Pablo Álvarez | Argentina
|
394 | 360 | 381 | 1135 | |
| 38 | Evangelos Liogris |  Greece
|
390 | 363 | 381 | 1135 | |
| 40 | Aleksandr Babchenko |  Kyrgyzstan
|
393 | 364 | 373 | 1130 |
Final edit
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Jia Zhanbo (CHN)
|
1171 | 9.4 | 10.1 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 8.7 | 9.9 | 9.9 | 8.8 | 7.8 | 10.1 | 93.5 | 1264.5 |
|
Michael Anti (USA)
|
1165 | 10.4 | 8.8 | 9.3 | 10.6 | 10.8 | 8.5 | 10.4 | 10.8 | 8.1 | 10.4 | 98.1 | 1263.1 |
|
Christian Planer (AUT)
|
1167 | 8.6 | 7.9 | 9.3 | 10.6 | 9.9 | 10.0 | 9.6 | 9.5 | 9.8 | 10.6 | 95.8 | 1262.8 |
| 4 | Rajmond Debevec (SLO)
|
1166 | 10.0 | 9.5 | 10.2 | 9.8 | 9.7 | 9.1 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 10.5 | 8.4 | 96.6 | 1262.6 |
| 5 | Artem Khadjibekov (RUS)
|
1164 | 10.4 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 9.7 | 9.2 | 9.7 | 10.6 | 9.7 | 9.1 | 9.7 | 97.6 | 1261.6 |
| 6 | Thomas Farnik (AUT)
|
1165 | 10.2 | 8.1 | 9.3 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 9.0 | 10.7 | 9.4 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 96.4 | 1261.4 |
| 7 | Artur Ayvazyan (UKR)
|
1166 | 9.0 | 8.1 | 10.2 | 9.1 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 10.7 | 9.3 | 8.7 | 9.8 | 95.0 | 1261.0 |
| 8 | Matthew Emmons (USA)
|
1169 | 9.4 | 10.4 | 9.3 | 10.4 | 9.5 | 10.1 | 9.9 | 9.4 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 88.4 | 1257.4 |
References edit
- ^ "Shooting at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ "Zhang Yining completes China's golden 100". Xinhua. China Daily. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ a b Rivera, Steve (22 August 2004). "Emmons loses gold medal after aiming at wrong target". USA Today. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ "Shooting mayhem for Emmons". BBC Sport. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 19 August 2015.