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 RankAthleteCountryScoreNotes1Christian Klees600Q EWR OR2Jozef Gönci599Q3Sergei Martynov598Q4Sergey Belyayev598Q5Bill Meek597Q6Jorge González597Q7Lee Eun-chul596Q (6th: 100)8Milan Mach596Q (6th: 99)9Rajmond Debevec596(6th: 98)9Sergei Kovalenko596(6th: 98)11Václav Bečvář59511Robert Kraskowski59511Li Wenjie59511Yuri Lomov59511Oleg Mykhaylov59511Igor Pirekeev59511Stevan Pletikosić59511Bernd Rücker59511Zsolt Vari59520Chen Xianjun59420Tadeusz Czerwinski59420Artem Khadjibekov59420Kurt Koch59420Goran Maksimović59420Boris Polak59426Jens Harskov59326Jaco Henn59326Guy Starik59326Andreas Zumbach59330Michel Bury59230Michel Dion59230Naoki Kurita59230Georgi Nekhayev59230Harald Stenvaag59230Eric Uptagrafft59236Cha Young-chul59136Nils Petter Håkedal59136Stephen Petterson59139Roger Chassat59039Torben Grimmel59039Wolfram Waibel59042Thomas Farnik58942Peter Gabrielsson58942Juha Hirvi58942Bruce Meredith58942Masaru Yanagida58947Ralph Rodriguez58848Jonathan Stern58749Anuj Desai58650Khalaf Al Khatri58451Nedžad Fazlija58352Gary Duff580 EWR Equalled World record – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final
Final RankAthleteQualFinalTotalNotes600104.8704.8WR OR598105.3703.3599102.9701.94597104.7701.75596104.9700.96598101.6699.67596103.1699.18597101.9698.9 OR Olympic record – WR World record
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