Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's 50 metre rifle prone

Infobox Olympic event
event = Men's 50 metre rifle prone
games = 1988 Summer
venue =
date = September 19, 1988
competitors = 55
nations = 33
gold = Miroslav Varga
goldNOC = TCH
silver = Cha Young-chul
silverNOC = KOR
bronze = Attila Zahonyi
bronzeNOC = HUN
win_label = Winning score
win_value = 703.9 (OR)
next = 1992

Men's 50 metre rifle prone (then known as "small-bore free rifle") was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. It was the first Olympic three positions competition to feature final shooting. Miroslav Vargan equalled the world record with a perfect 600 in the qualification round, and retained half of his two-point pre-final lead until the end of the competition.

Qualification round

EWR Equalled world record – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

OR Olympic record

References

*cite book |title=XXIVth Olympiad Seoul 1988 Official Report – Volume 2 Part 2 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1988/1988v2p2.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2008-09-28