Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's 50 metre rifle prone

Infobox Olympic event
event = Men's 50 metre rifle prone
games = 1996 Summer
venue = Wolf Creek Shooting Complex
date =
competitors = 52
nations = 36
gold = Christian Klees
goldNOC = GER
silver = Sergey Belyayev
silverNOC = KAZ
bronze = Jozef Gönci
bronzeNOC = SVK
win_label = Winning score
win_value = 704.8 (WR)
prev = 1992
next = 2000

Men's 50 metre rifle prone (then known as "free rifle") was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. 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 surpassed Jozef Gönci 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

*cite book |title=Olympic Report Atlanta 1996 Volume III: The Competition Results |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v3.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2008-09-10