Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone

Men's 50 metre rifle prone (then known as free rifle) was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Christian Klees shot a perfect 600 in the qualification round and set a new World record after 104.8 points (of maximum 109.0) in the final. With an even better final round, Sergey Belyayev surpassed Jozef Gönci to win the silver medal.

Men's 50 metre rifle prone at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Wolf Creek Shooting Complex
Date	25 July 1996
Competitors	52 from 36 nations
Winning score	704.8 WR
Medalists
Christian Klees  Germany Sergey Belyayev  Kazakhstan Jozef Gönci  Slovakia

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Christian Klees	Germany	600	Q EWR OR
2	Jozef Gönci	Slovakia	599	Q
3	Sergei Martynov	Belarus	598	Q
4	Sergey Belyayev	Kazakhstan	598	Q
5	Bill Meek	United States	597	Q
6	Jorge González	Spain	597	Q
7	Lee Eun-chul	South Korea	596	Q (6th: 100)
8	Milan Mach	Czech Republic	596	Q (6th: 99)
9	Rajmond Debevec	Slovenia	596	(6th: 98)
9	Sergei Kovalenko	Russia	596	(6th: 98)
11	Václav Bečvář	Czech Republic	595
11	Robert Kraskowski	Poland	595
11	Li Wenjie	China	595
11	Yuri Lomov	Kyrgyzstan	595
11	Oleg Mykhaylov	Ukraine	595
11	Igor Pirekeev	Turkmenistan	595
11	Stevan Pletikosić	FR Yugoslavia	595
11	Bernd Rücker	Germany	595
11	Zsolt Vari	Hungary	595
20	Chen Xianjun	China	594
20	Tadeusz Czerwinski	Poland	594
20	Artem Khadjibekov	Russia	594
20	Kurt Koch	Switzerland	594
20	Goran Maksimović	FR Yugoslavia	594
20	Boris Polak	Israel	594
26	Jens Harskov	Denmark	593
26	Jaco Henn	South Africa	593
26	Guy Starik	Israel	593
26	Andreas Zumbach	Switzerland	593
30	Michel Bury	France	592
30	Michel Dion	Canada	592
30	Naoki Kurita	Japan	592
30	Georgi Nekhayev	Belarus	592
30	Harald Stenvaag	Norway	592
30	Eric Uptagrafft	United States	592
36	Cha Young-chul	South Korea	591
36	Nils Petter Håkedal	Norway	591
36	Stephen Petterson	New Zealand	591
39	Roger Chassat	France	590
39	Torben Grimmel	Denmark	590
39	Wolfram Waibel	Austria	590
42	Thomas Farnik	Austria	589
42	Peter Gabrielsson	Sweden	589
42	Juha Hirvi	Finland	589
42	Bruce Meredith	Virgin Islands	589
42	Masaru Yanagida	Japan	589
47	Ralph Rodriguez	Puerto Rico	588
48	Jonathan Stern	Great Britain	587
49	Anuj Desai	Kenya	586
50	Khalaf Al Khatri	Oman	584
51	Nedžad Fazlija	Bosnia and Herzegovina	583
52	Gary Duff	Ireland	580

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

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
	Christian Klees (GER)	600	104.8	704.8	WR OR
	Sergey Belyayev (KAZ)	598	105.3	703.3
	Jozef Gönci (SVK)	599	102.9	701.9
4	Jorge González (ESP)	597	104.7	701.7
5	Milan Mach (CZE)	596	104.9	700.9
6	Sergei Martynov (BLR)	598	101.6	699.6
7	Lee Eun-chul (KOR)	596	103.1	699.1
8	Bill Meek (USA)	597	101.9	698.9

OR Olympic record – WR World record

Sources

• Olympic Report Atlanta 1996 Volume III: The Competition Results (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2008.