Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle three positions


The men's 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 6 August 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks.
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 the shooters go through the new ISSF final, which consists of 45 shots, if you make it through the entirety of the final. The shooters start of in the kneeling position, where they fire three series of five shots, with decimal scoring. Then the shooters move on, to changeover and sighting time, which first consists of seven minutes. Then the shooters go into the prone position, where again they shoot three series of five shoots, on decimal scoring. The second changeover time, for the standing position, consists of nine minutes. The athletes shoot two series of five shoots, with decimal scorings. When the first two series are done, seventh and eight place are "eliminated, " kicked out of the competition. Then after every shot, the athlete with the lowest score is eliminated, until the best shooter is found.
In 2012, the finals were shot under the old format, with the qualification scores carrying over into the final, and only ten shots in the standing position are fired, in decimal scores.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification round

RankAthleteCountryProneStandingKneelingTotalNotes
1Niccolò Campriani3963903941180Q, OR
2Matthew Emmons3963863901172Q
3Cyril Graff3953853911171Q
4Yury Shcherbatsevich3993803921171Q
5Kim Jong-Hyun3963853901171Q
6Zhu Qinan3923903881170Q
7Ole Kristian Bryhn3973853871169Q
8Péter Sidi3943893851168Q, Shoot-off: 48.2
9Han Jin-Seop3983783921168Shoot-off: 48.1
10Artur Ayvazyan3973833881168Shoot-off: 47.8
11Marcel Bürge3973843871168Shoot-off: 45.9
12Thomas Farnik3943823911167
13Valérian Sauveplane3943823911167
14Serhiy Kulish3903873891166
15Marco De Nicolo3943803911165
16Artem Khadjibekov3993773891165
17Vitali Bubnovich3963803881164
18Denis Sokolov3963753931164
19Simon Beyeler3943793911164
20Gagan Narang3983773891164
21Maik Eckhardt3973823841163
22Are Hansen3973823841163
23Nemanja Mirosavljev3923793911162
24Anton Rizov3953783891162
25James Huckle3923843861162
26Sanjeev Rajput3953783881161
27Rajmond Debevec3953783881161
28Peter Hellenbrand3953853801160
29Lan Xing3973783841159
30Jason Parker3983833801159
31Jozef Gönci3953813811157
32Daniel Brodmeier3983743841156
33Nyantain Bayaraa3933823791154
34Václav Haman3953743841153
35Bojan Durković3963693871152
36Javier López3963753801151
37Dane Sampson3923813781151
38Nedžad Fazlija3923723851149
39Midori Yajima3943673871148
40Ruslan Ismailov3923763781146
41Jonathan Hammond3953613861142

Final