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

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.

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  South Korea Harald Stenvaag  Norway Stevan Pletikosić  Independent Olympic Participants
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Shooting at the 1992 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	open
Skeet	open
Running target
10 m running target	men
v t e

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Hubert Bichler	Germany	598	Q OR
2	Harald Stenvaag	Norway	597	Q
3	Stevan Pletikosić	Independent Olympic Participants	597	Q
4	Juha Hirvi	Finland	597	Q
5	Peter Gabrielsson	Sweden	597	Q
6	Michel Bury	France	597	Q
7	Hrachya Petikyan	Unified Team	597	Q
8	Lee Eun-chul	South Korea	597	Q
9	William E. Meek	United States	596
10	Bernd Rücker	Germany	596
11	Jens Harskov	Denmark	596
11	Jiang Rong	China	596
11	Olimpiu Marin	Romania	596
11	Wolfram Waibel, Jr.	Austria	596
15	Michael James Ashcroft	Canada	595
15	Nils Petter Håkedal	Norway	595
15	Zsolt Vari	Hungary	595
18	Michael Anti	United States	594
18	Cha Young-chul	South Korea	594
18	Tadeusz Czerwinski	Poland	594
18	Rajmond Debevec	Slovenia	594
18	Ralph Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	594
18	Andreas Zumbach	Switzerland	594
24	Michel Dion	Canada	593
24	Kirill Ivanov	Unified Team	593
26	Jean-Pierre Amat	France	592
26	Jorge González	Spain	592
26	Akihiro Mera	Japan	592
26	Jari Pälve	Finland	592
26	Attila Zahonyi	Hungary	592
31	Milan Bakeš	Czechoslovakia	591
31	Bo Arne Gerhard Lilja	Denmark	591
31	Goran Maksimović	Independent Olympic Participants	591
31	Bruce Meredith	Virgin Islands	591
31	Ricardo Rusticucci	Argentina	591
31	Miroslav Varga	Czechoslovakia	591
31	Wolfram Waibel, Sr.	Austria	591
31	Petar Dimitrov Zapryanov	Bulgaria	591
39	Massimo Birindelli	Italy	590
39	Menachem Ilan	Israel	590
39	Pang Yongying	China	590
42	Stephen Kelly Petterson	New Zealand	589
43	Khalaf Al Khatri	Oman	588
43	Alister Miller Allan	Great Britain	588
43	Manfred Fiess	South Africa	588
43	Ryohei Koba	Japan	588
43	Jacek Kubka	Poland	588
48	Jaime Pares Criville	Spain	587
49	Hugo Romero	Ecuador	585
50	Carl Johan Eiriksson	Iceland	583
50	Norbert Sturny	Switzerland	583
52	Satiender Sehmi	Kenya	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

References