50 meter rifle prone (formerly known as one of four free rifle disciplines) is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle (5.6 mm) caliber rifle.

The sport is based on the traditional "English Match" that also consisted of 60 shots in the prone position with a .22 rifle, but had varying distances between and .

Since 2013 the time limit is 50 minutes for the match, preceded by 15 minutes of sighting and preparation time. If shooting on paper rather than electronic targets, 60 minutes is allowed for match firing.Official Statues Rules and Regulations Edition 2013 first print table 7.9

Before 2017, the men's event was included in the Olympic program but starting with the 2020 Olympics this event has been removed to promote equal gender in Olympic shooting sports. Mixed gender doubles events were introduced to replace this event and two other individual shooting events. Now this event is contested in World Championships only. This includes a final for the top eight competitors. Beginning with the 2013 season, a new finals format was instituted, in which the qualification score is discarded, and the standings among the top eight shooters are determined by their finals scores alone. The course of fire was also changed significantly with the new rules, from the previous 10-shot and then 20-shots program into a 24-shot elimination format, with the lowest ranking shooter eliminated every two shots, starting from the completion of 12th shot.

The women's event has never been included in the Olympic program. It is included in both the ISSF and the CISM World Championships. Since the use of Olympic-style finals was discontinued in 2018, shooters with the same score are separated by a number of tie-breaking criteria, the first being the number of inner tens. Women's rifles may weigh up to , as opposed to for men, but after the switch from standard rifles to sport rifles this is now the only difference in equipment.

World Championships, Men

Year Place Gold Silver Bronze1962 Cairo1966 Wiesbaden1970 Phoenix1974 Thun1978 Seoul1982 Caracas1986 Suhl1990 Moscow1994 Milan Stevan Pletikosic (IOP)1998 Barcelona2002 Lahti2006 Zagreb2010 Munich2014 Granada2018 Changwon2022 New Administrative Capital

World Championships, Men Team

Year Place Gold Silver Bronze1962 Cairo SwedenChrister GustafssonKurt JohanssonJan Emil PoignantNils Johan SundbergGary AndersonJames Enoch HillPresley KendallVerle Franklin Jun. Wright West GermanyRudolf BortzPeter KohnkeKarl WenkKlaus Zähringer1966 WiesbadenDonald AdamsDavid BoydBill KrillingLones Wigger PolandJanusz KalmusStanislaw MaruchaJerzy NowickiAndrzej Trajda Soviet UnionVasily BorisovAlexander GerasimenokYuri KudryashovMarat Niyazov1970 Phoenix ItalyGiuseppe de ChiricoFranco DonnaWalter FrescuraLuigi Testarmata RomaniaMarin FerecatuȘtefan KabanGheorghe VasilescuStefan Tamas YugoslaviaDusan EpifanicBranislav LoncarZdravko MilutinovicMiroslav Sipek1974 Thun FinlandJouko Ilmari HietalahtiPauli Aapeli JanhonenEsa Einari KervinenLeif LajunenVictor AuerPresley KendallMargaret MurdockLones Wigger CzechoslovakiaKarel BulanPetr KováříkKarel SkybaJiri Vogler1978 SeoulLanny BasshamJohn ComleyBoyd GoldsbyLones Wigger West GermanyKurt HillenbrandUlrich LindKarlheinz SmieszekWerner Seibold SwitzerlandHans BraemPierre-Alain DufauxAnton MuellerRobert Weilenmann1982 Caracas Soviet UnionVictor DaniltchenkoGennadi LushikovAlexander MitrofanovViktor Vlasov West GermanyHubert BichlerPeter HeinzUlrich LindWerner Seibold AustriaAlbert DeuringLothar HeinrichHannes RainerWolfram Waibel Sr.1986 Suhl AustraliaDonald BrookWarren PotentAlan Smith East GermanyBernd HartsteinMario GonsierowskiHellfried Heilfort SwedenChristian HellerStefan LövbomHans Strand1990 Moscow Soviet UnionViatcheslav BotchkarevGennadi LushikovSergei Martynov CzechoslovakiaJaromir BuresVaclav BecvarMiroslav Varga YugoslaviaRajmond DebevecGoran MaksimovićNemanja Mirosavljev1994 Milan UkraineArtur AyvazyanOleg DementyevAndriy SheykinJean-Pierre AmatMichel BuryDominique Maquin RussiaViatcheslav BotchkarevArtem KhadjibekovSergei Schedrin1998 BarcelonaThomas TamasGlenn DubisLance Hopper SlovakiaPeter BubernikMiroslav SvoradaJozef Gönci ItalyRoberto VitobelloMarco de NicoloRoberto Facheris2002 Lahti NorwayEspen Berg-KnutsenVebjørn BergHarald Stenvaag UkraineOleg MykhaylovArtur AyvazyanJury Sukhorukov RussiaKonstantin PrikhodtchenkoSergei KovalenkoArtem Khadjibekov2006 ZagrebMichael McPhailEric UptagrafftMatthew Emmons AustriaMario KnöglerChristian PlanerAlexander Uhl HungaryPéter SidiTibor Gabor MlinkovicsSzabolcs Herczegh2010 MunichMichael McPhailEric UptagrafftMatthew Emmons South KoreaHan JinseopKim JonghyunKim Hakman RussiaArtem KhadjibekovKonstantin PrikhodtchenkoDmitry Ponomarev2014 GranadaZhao ShengboLan XingLiu Gang BelarusSergei MartynovYuri ShcherbatsevichVitali Bubnovich SerbiaStevan PletikosićMilenko SebićNemanja Mirosavljev2018 ChangwonDaniel BrodmeierChristoph KaulichMaximilian DallingerMichael McPhailMatthew EmmonsLucas KozenieskyZhao ZhonghaoSun JianLiu Gang

World Championships, Women

Year Place Gold Silver Bronze1966 Wiesbaden1970 Phoenix1974 Thun1978 Seoul1982 Caracas1986 Suhl1990 Moscow1994 Milan1998 Barcelona2002 Lahti2006 Zagreb2010 Munich2014 Granada2018 Changwon2022 New Administrative Capital

World Championships, Women Team

Year Place Gold Silver Bronze1966 Wiesbaden PolandBarbara KopytBozena WzietekEulalia ZakrzewskaMarianne JensenPatricia KinsellaMargaret Thompson HungaryOszkarne KellnerLajosne KisgyorgyFerencne Kun1970 Phoenix YugoslaviaMagdalena HeroldMirjana MasicDesanka Perovic West GermanyIngrid KappesGerlinde PoppAnneliese Rhomberg Soviet UnionTamara CherkasovaLucia FagerevaTatiana Ratnikova1974 ThunSchuyler HelbingMargaret MurdockDiana Zimmermann YugoslaviaMirjana MasicDesanka PesutValeria Sabatka SwedenMargareta GustafssonChristina GustafssonBrita Raning1978 SeoulKaren MonezWanda OliverSue Ann SanduskyYvette CouraultDominique EsnaultElisabeth Lesou AustraliaTricia van NusSylvia MuehlbergTracey Smith1982 Caracas AustraliaYvonne GowlandYvonne HillSylvia Muehlberg Soviet UnionSvetlana KomaristovaLessia LeskivTatiana SytchevaYvette CouraultDominique EsnaultIsabelle Heberle1986 Suhl YugoslaviaVesna DomazetMirjana JovovicBiserka Vrbek BulgariaPetja DoudekovaVesela LetchevaNonka Matova SwedenAnette AnderssonMargareta GustafssonChristina Gustafsson1990 Moscow Soviet UnionValentina CherkasovaLessia LeskivIryna Shylava BulgariaVesela LetchevaNonka MatovaMilena SpasovaTammie DeanglesLauni MeiliKristen Peterson1994 Milan RussiaValentina CherkasovaIrina GerasimenokAnna Maloukhina NorwayLindy HansenGrethe MartinsenHanne Vataker UkraineLessia LeskivTatiana NesterovaOlga Cheremska1998 Barcelona RussiaMarina BobkovaIrina GerasimenokTatiana GoldobinaXian WangYinghui ZhaoHong Shan UkraineLessia LeskivOlga LarinaOlena Davydova2002 Lahti FinlandViivi VillaJenni RantaHelena Juppala DenmarkPia JakobsenAnni BissoeCharlotte JakobsenBritta GrossecappenbergPetra HorneberSonja Pfeilschifter2006 ZagrebSonja PfeilschifterDorothee BauerClaudia Keck KazakhstanGalina KorchmaOlga DovgunVarvara Kovalenko UkraineNatallia KalnyshOlena DavydovaLessia Leskiv2010 Munich SwitzerlandAurelie GrangierAnnik MarguetIrene BeyelerEva FriedelSonja PfeilschifterNicole Stenzenberger South KoreaKim YooyeonJeong MiraKwon Nara2014 GranadaBeate GaussBarbara EnglederIsabella StraubChen DongqiChang JingYi Siling UkraineLessia LeskivNatallia KalnyshOlga Golubchenko2018 ChangwonJaqueline OrthIsabella StraubAmelie Kleinmanns DenmarkStine NielsenRikki Maeng IbsenStephanie Laura Scurrah Grundsoee Great BritainSeonaid McIntoshJennifer McIntoshZoe Anne Bruce

World Championships, Mixed Team

Year Place Gold Silver Bronze2022 New Administrative CapitalSagen MaddalenaIvan RoeDaria TykhovaSerhiy KulishJolyn BeerMaximilian Dallinger

World Championships, total medals

Current world records

Pre 2013 World Records Pre 2013 world records in 50 meter rifle prone Men Teams 1793 (Knögler, Planer, Waibel) July 19, 2003 Plzeň Junior MenTeams1770 United Kingdom (Thomson, Parr, Phillips)July, 10 2006Zagreb (CRO) Zagreb Teams 1778 (Boschenrieder, Hahn, Junghaenel) July 9, 2008 Plzeň Women Individual 597 July 19, 1998July 4, 2002October 4, 2002July 29, 2006 Barcelona Lahti Busan Zagreb Teams 1786 (Cherkasova, Leskiv, Shylava) August 15, 1990 Moscow Junior Women Individual 598 August 3, 2000 Plzeň Teams 1771 (Bengtsson, Karlsson, Säker) July 14, 2009 Osijek

Current World Records Current world records in 50 meter rifle prone Men Individual 633.0 July 21, 2015 Maribor Teams 1878.3 (Majka, Bartnik, Romańczyk) September 16, 2019 Bologna Junior Men Individual 629.3 September 16, 2014 Granada Teams 1865.6 (Thum, Wadlegger, Diem) June 24, 2017 Suhl Women (ISSF) Individual 628.5 September 14, 2014 Granada Teams 1871.6 (Zykova, Ivanova, Khorosheva) September 16, 2019 Bologna Women (CISM) Junior Women Individual 627.9 July 14, 2019 Suhl Teams 1865.5 (Duestad, Stette, Engevik) July 14, 2019 Suhl

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