Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle three positions

Men's 50 metre rifle three positions
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
VenueMarkópoulo Olympic Shooting
Centre
DateAugust 22, 2004
Competitors40 from 29 nations
Winning score1264.5
Medalists
   China
   United States
   Austria
Shooting at the
2004 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions men women
50 m rifle prone men
10 m air rifle   men   women
Pistol
50 m pistol men
25 m pistol women
25 m rapid fire pistol men
10 m air pistol men women
Shotgun
Trap men women
Double trap men women
Skeet men women
Running target
10 m running target men

The men's 50 metre rifle three positions competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 22 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.

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.[1][2] 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.[2][3]

Records

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

Prone position

Standing position

Kneeling position

Combined results

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

Rank Athlete Qual 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final Total
1st, gold medalist(s)  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
2nd, silver medalist(s)  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
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  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

  1. "Zhang Yining completes China's golden 100". Xinhua. China Daily. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 Rivera, Steve (22 August 2004). "Emmons loses gold medal after aiming at wrong target". USA Today. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  3. "Shooting mayhem for Emmons". BBC Sport. 22 August 2004. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
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