The Men's 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 17 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall, the last shooting event of the Beijing Olympics.
| Men's 50 metre rifle three positions at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Beijing Shooting Range Hall | ||||||||||||
| Date | August 17, 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 49 from 31 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 1272.5 | ||||||||||||
| 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.
Records edit
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
Detailed prone results
Standing position edit
Detailed standing results
Kneeling position edit
Detailed kneeling results
Combined results edit
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Prone | Stand | Kneel | Total | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia
|
399 | 386 | 391 | 1176 | Q |
| 2 | Matthew Emmons |  United States
|
399 | 389 | 387 | 1175 | Q |
| 3 | Jury Sukhorukov |  Ukraine
|
398 | 384 | 392 | 1174 | Q |
| 4 | Qiu Jian |  China
|
394 | 387 | 392 | 1173 | Q |
| 5 | Vebjørn Berg |  Norway
|
398 | 383 | 391 | 1172 | Q |
| 6 | Valérian Sauveplane |  France
|
396 | 384 | 392 | 1172 | Q |
| 7 | Thomas Farnik |  Austria
|
391 | 386 | 394 | 1171 | Q |
| 8 | Mario Knögler | Austria
|
395 | 386 | 389 | 1170 | Q |
| 9 | Marco De Nicolo |  Italy
|
396 | 389 | 384 | 1169 | |
| 10 | Maik Eckhardt |  Germany
|
398 | 380 | 391 | 1169 | |
| 11 | Stevan Pletikosić |  Serbia
|
398 | 378 | 392 | 1168 | |
| 12 | Juha Hirvi |  Finland
|
397 | 385 | 386 | 1168 | |
| 13 | Gagan Narang |  India
|
394 | 389 | 384 | 1167 | |
| 14 | Artem Khadjibekov |  Russia
|
391 | 383 | 393 | 1167 | |
| 15 | Han Jin-seop |  South Korea
|
392 | 384 | 391 | 1167 | |
| 16 | Toshikazu Yamashita |  Japan
|
399 | 382 | 386 | 1167 | |
| 17 | Michael Winter | Germany
|
396 | 385 | 385 | 1166 | |
| 18 | Sergei Kovalenko | Russia
|
394 | 382 | 390 | 1166 | |
| 19 | Artur Ayvazyan | Ukraine
|
394 | 385 | 386 | 1165 | |
| 20 | Nemanja Mirosavljev | Serbia
|
398 | 381 | 386 | 1165 | |
| 21 | Beat Müller |  Switzerland
|
395 | 380 | 389 | 1164 | |
| 22 | Jason Parker | United States
|
393 | 384 | 387 | 1164 | |
| 23 | Václav Haman |  Czech Republic
|
391 | 380 | 392 | 1163 | |
| 24 | Jia Zhanbo | China
|
394 | 378 | 391 | 1163 | |
| 25 | Péter Sidi |  Hungary
|
394 | 385 | 384 | 1163 | |
| 26 | Sanjeev Rajput | India
|
395 | 380 | 387 | 1162 | |
| 27 | Yuriy Yurkov |  Kazakhstan
|
395 | 382 | 385 | 1162 | |
| 28 | Henri Häkkinen | Finland
|
390 | 381 | 390 | 1161 | |
| 29 | Vitali Bubnovich |  Belarus
|
394 | 380 | 387 | 1161 | |
| 30 | Espen Berg-Knutsen | Norway
|
396 | 374 | 390 | 1160 | |
| 31 | Park Bong-duk | South Korea
|
398 | 373 | 388 | 1159 | |
| 32 | Vitaliy Dovgun | Kazakhstan
|
398 | 381 | 379 | 1158 | |
| 33 | Robert Kraskowski |  Poland
|
395 | 373 | 388 | 1156 | |
| 34 | Sergei Martynov | Belarus
|
398 | 376 | 382 | 1156 | |
| 35 | Marcel Bürge | Switzerland
|
396 | 373 | 386 | 1155 | |
| 36 | Doron Egozi |  Israel
|
396 | 375 | 384 | 1155 | |
| 37 | Jozef Gönci |  Slovakia
|
394 | 376 | 384 | 1154 | |
| 38 | Gil Simkovitch | Israel
|
395 | 368 | 390 | 1153 | |
| 39 | Niccolò Campriani | Italy
|
395 | 377 | 381 | 1153 | |
| 40 | Benjamin Burge |  Australia
|
392 | 373 | 387 | 1152 | |
| 41 | Josselin Henry | France
|
388 | 373 | 390 | 1151 | |
| 42 | Jonathan Hammond |  Great Britain
|
395 | 370 | 383 | 1148 | |
| 43 | Nedžad Fazlija |  Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
393 | 376 | 379 | 1148 | |
| 44 | Petar Gorša |  Croatia
|
393 | 377 | 378 | 1148 | |
| 45 | Matthew Robert Inabinet | Australia
|
389 | 376 | 376 | 1141 | |
| 46 | Mohamed Amer |  Egypt
|
390 | 369 | 376 | 1135 | |
| 47 | Liecer Perez |  Cuba
|
394 | 373 | 367 | 1134 | |
| 48 | Ruslan Ismailov |  Kyrgyzstan
|
388 | 367 | 375 | 1130 | |
| 49 | Siddique Umer |  Pakistan
|
390 | 359 | 367 | 1116 | |
| Tomáš Jeřábek | Czech Republic
|
DNS |
DNS Did not start – Q Qualified for final
Final edit
| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Qiu Jian (CHN)
|
1173 | 10.2 | 8.8 | 10.5 | 10.6 | 9.3 | 9.4 | 10.0 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.0 | 99.5 | 1272.5 |
|
Jury Sukhorukov (UKR)
|
1174 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.1 | 9.1 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 10.4 | 9.8 | 98.4 | 1272.4 |
|
Rajmond Debevec (SLO)
|
1176 | 7.7 | 10.2 | 7.9 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 10.5 | 9.2 | 10.0 | 9.9 | 10.8 | 95.7 | 1271.7 |
| 4 | Matthew Emmons (USA)
|
1175 | 9.7 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 10.1 | 10.5 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 9.8 | 4.4 | 95.3 | 1270.3 |
| 5 | Thomas Farnik (AUT)
|
1171 | 10.0 | 9.4 | 9.7 | 9.4 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 9.9 | 10.1 | 9.4 | 10.3 | 97.9 | 1268.9 |
| 6 | Mario Knögler (AUT)
|
1170 | 8.2 | 10.1 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 9.3 | 98.4 | 1268.4 |
| 7 | Valérian Sauveplane (FRA)
|
1172 | 8.8 | 9.2 | 10.3 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 7.9 | 9.5 | 9.2 | 10.0 | 95.1 | 1267.1 |
| 8 | Vebjørn Berg (NOR)
|
1172 | 9.4 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 10.6 | 8.0 | 10.2 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 10.0 | 9.8 | 94.5 | 1266.5 |