Men's

50 metre rifle prone 50 meter rifle prone (formerly known as one of four free rifle disciplines) is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle (5.6 mm) caliber rifle. The time limit is 7 ...

(then known as ''free rifle'') was one of the fifteen shooting events at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

. 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 Sergey Belyayev (Серге́й Беля́ев; 8 May 1960 – 6 September 2020) was a Kazakhstani shooter, who won two silver medals in 50 metre rifle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR Uzbek ...

surpassed

Jozef Gönci Jozef Gönci (born 18 March 1974, in Košice) is a Slovak sport shooter, specialising in the 50 m Rifle and 10 m Air Rifle. Gönci won independent Slovakia's first ever Olympic Medal, a bronze in Atlanta in 1996. He won another bronze me ...

to win the silver medal.

Qualification round

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

Final

OR Olympic record – WR World record

References

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's 50 metre rifle prone Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics Men's 050m prone 1996 Men's events at the 1996 Summer Olympics