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Men's 50 metre rifle three positions at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Shooting Range Hall
Date	August 17, 2008
Competitors	49 from 31 nations
Winning score	1272.5
Medalists
Qiu Jian  China Jury Sukhorukov  Ukraine Rajmond Debevec  Slovenia
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The Men's 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 17 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall, the last shooting event of the Beijing Olympics.

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.

The existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

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Qualification records
World record	Rajmond Debevec (SLO)	1186	Munich, Germany	29 August 1992
Olympic record	Rajmond Debevec (SLO)	1177	Sydney, Australia	23 September 2000

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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

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