Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone

Men's 50 metre rifle prone at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Mollet del Vallès
Competitors	52 from 34 nations
Winning score	702.5 OR
Medalists
Lee Eun-chul  Südkorea Harald Stenvaag  Norwegen Stevan Pletikosić  Independent Olympic Participants

Men's 50 metre rifle prone (then known as small-bore free rifle) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. It was the first Olympic competition after the introduction of the new target in 1989, and thus two Olympic records were set. The first was set by Hubert Bichler with 598 points in the qualification round. All his seven adversaries in the final started just one point behind him on 597. Two of them, Lee Eun-chul and Harald Stenvaag, surpassed him to win gold and silver respectively, with Lee establishing a new final Olympic record. Stevan Pletikosić finished on exactly the same score as Bichler, and the rules at the time broke the tie by best final score, giving Pletikosić the bronze medal.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Land	Score	Notes
1	Hubert Bichler	Deutschland	598	Q OR
2	Harald Stenvaag	Norwegen	597	Q
3	Stevan Pletikosić	Independent Olympic Participants	597	Q
4	Juha Hirvi	Finnland	597	Q
5	Peter Gabrielsson	Schweden	597	Q
6	Michel Bury	Frankreich	597	Q
7	Hrachya Petikyan	Unified Team	597	Q
8	Lee Eun-chul	Südkorea	597	Q
9	William E. Meek	Vereinigte Staaten	596
10	Bernd Rücker	Deutschland	596
11	Jens Harskov Loczi	Dänemark	596
11	Jiang Rong	China	596
11	Olimpiu Marin	Rumänien	596
11	Wolfram Waibel Jr.	Österreich	596
15	Michael James Ashcroft	Kanada	595
15	Nils Petter Håkedal	Norwegen	595
15	Zsolt Vári	Ungarn	595
18	Michael Anti	Vereinigte Staaten	594
18	Cha Young-chul	Südkorea	594
18	Tadeusz Czerwiński	Polen	594
18	Rajmond Debevec	Slowenien	594
18	Ralph Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	594
18	Andreas Zumbach	Schweiz	594
24	Michel Dion	Kanada	593
24	Kirill Ivanov	Unified Team	593
26	Jean-Pierre Amat	Frankreich	592
26	Jorge González	Spanien	592
26	Akihiro Mera	Japan	592
26	Jari Pälve	Finnland	592
26	Attila Záhonyi	Ungarn	592
31	Milan Bakeš	Czechoslovakia	591
31	Bo Arne Gerhard Lilja	Dänemark	591
31	Goran Maksimović	Independent Olympic Participants	591
31	Bruce Meredith	Virgin Islands	591
31	Ricardo Rusticucci	Argentinien	591
31	Miroslav Varga	Czechoslovakia	591
31	Wolfram Waibel Sr.	Österreich	591
31	Petar Dimitrov Zapryanov	Bulgarien	591
39	Massimo Birindelli	Italien	590
39	Menachem Ilan	Israel	590
39	Pang Yongying	China	590
42	Stephen Kelly Petterson	Neuseeland	589
43	Khalaf Al-Khatri	Oman	588
43	Alister Miller Allan	Great Britain	588
43	Manfred Fiess	Südafrika	588
43	Ryohei Koba	Japan	588
43	Jacek Kubka	Polen	588
48	Jaime Parés	Spanien	587
49	Hugo Romero	Ecuador	585
50	Carl Eiríksson	Island	583
50	Norbert Sturny	Schweiz	583
52	Satiender Sehmi	Kenia	579

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Shoot-off	Notes
	Lee Eun-chul (KOR)	597	105.5	702.5		OR
	Harald Stenvaag (NOR)	597	104.4	701.4
	Stevan Pletikosić (IOP)	597	104.1	701.1
4	Hubert Bichler (GER)	598	103.1	701.1
5	Michel Bury (FRA)	597	103.0	700.0
6	Juha Hirvi (FIN)	597	102.5	699.5	?
7	Peter Gabrielsson (SWE)	597	102.5	699.5	?
8	Hrachya Petikyan (EUN)	597	102.2	699.2

OR Olympic record

Sources

• Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992: The results (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2008.