Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone

Men's 50 metre rifle prone at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 21 September. The qualification round of 60 shots was fired between 09:30 and 10:45 Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10), and the final round of 10 additional shots at 11:30. Jonas Edman, previously more well known as a 300 metre shooter, took a one-point lead in the qualification round, and eventually won by a 0.9-point margin.^[1]

Men's 50 metre rifle prone at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney International Shooting Centre
Date	21 September 2000
Competitors	53 from 37 nations
Winning score	701.3
Medalists
Jonas Edman  Sweden Torben Grimmel  Denmark Sergei Martynov  Belarus
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Records

The existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification records
World record	Viatcheslav Botchkarev (URS)  Stevan Pletikosić (YUG)  Jean-Pierre Amat (FRA)  Christian Klees (GER)  Sergei Martynov (BLR)  Thomas Tamas (USA)  Sergei Martynov (BLR)  Sergei Martynov (BLR)	600	Zagreb, Croatia Munich, Germany Havana, Cuba Atlanta, United States Munich, Germany Barcelona, Spain Buenos Aires, Argentina Munich, Germany	13 July 1989 29 August 1991 27 April 1994 25 July 1996 23 May 1997 29 August 1998 4 September 1998 8 June 2000
Olympic record	Christian Klees (GER)	600	Atlanta, United States	25 July 1996

Final records
World record	Christian Klees (GER)	704.8 (600+104.8)	Atlanta, United States	25 July 1996
Olympic record	Christian Klees (GER)	704.8 (600+104.8)	Atlanta, United States	25 July 1996

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Jonas Edman	Sweden	599	Q
2	Sergei Martynov	Belarus	598	Q
3	Václav Bečvář	Czech Republic	597	Q
4	Igor Pirekeev	Turkmenistan	597	Q
5	Torben Grimmel	Denmark	597	Q
6	Artem Khadjibekov	Russia	597	Q
7	Maik Eckhardt	Germany	596	Q (6th: 100)
8	Philippe Joualin	France	596	Q (6th: 100)
9	Mario Knögler	Austria	596	(6th: 98)
10	Marco De Nicolo	Italy	595
10	Glenn Dubis	United States	595
10	Wayne Sorensen	Canada	595
13	Roger Hansson	Sweden	594
13	Sergei Kovalenko	Russia	594
13	Ning Lijia	China	594
13	Péter Sidi	Hungary	594
13	Harald Stenvaag	Norway	594
13	Thomas Tamas	United States	594
19	Espen Berg-Knutsen	Norway	593
19	Rajmond Debevec	Slovenia	593
19	Jorge González	Spain	593
19	Timothy Lowndes	Australia	593
19	Georgy Nekhaev	Belarus	593
19	Warren Potent	Australia	593
25	Hilal Al Rasheedi	Oman	592
25	Michael Babb	Great Britain	592
25	Juha Hirvi	Finland	592
25	Swen Schuller	Germany	592
25	Guy Starik	Israel	592
30	Artur Ayvazyan	Ukraine	591
30	Jean-Pierre Amat	France	591
30	Oleg Mykhaylov	Ukraine	591
30	Stevan Pletikosić	FR Yugoslavia	591
34	Nedžad Fazlija	Bosnia and Herzegovina	590
35	Naoki Kurita	Japan	589
35	Yuri Lomov	Kyrgyzstan	589
35	Goran Maksimović	FR Yugoslavia	589
38	Bae Sung-duk	South Korea	588
38	Roger Caron	Canada	588
38	Radim Novak	Czech Republic	588
41	Roberto José Elias Orozco	Mexico	587
41	Lee Eun-chul	South Korea	587
41	Alan Lewis	Ireland	587
44	Thomas Farnik	Austria	585
44	Jaco Henn	South Africa	585
46	Bruce Meredith	Virgin Islands	584
47	Corne Basson	South Africa	583
47	Varavut Majchacheep	Thailand	583
49	Pablo Álvarez	Argentina	582
50	Mufid Allawanseh	Jordan	581
51	Tevarit Majchacheep	Thailand	580
52	Ralph Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	578
53	Mohamad Mahfoud	Syria	575
	Jozef Gönci	Slovakia		DNS
	Hou Yannan	China		DNS

DNS Did not start – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total	Shoot-off
	Jonas Edman (SWE)	599	10.3	10.1	10.5	10.3	10.4	10.0	10.3	10.0	10.2	10.2	102.3	701.3
	Torben Grimmel (DEN)	597	10.5	9.9	10.9	10.8	9.9	9.5	10.4	10.4	10.6	10.5	103.4	700.4
	Sergei Martynov (BLR)	598	9.8	10.2	10.1	9.9	10.6	10.2	10.1	10.6	10.5	10.3	102.3	700.3
4	Maik Eckhardt (GER)	596	10.4	10.3	10.3	10.5	10.6	10.3	10.5	10.4	10.0	10.5	103.8	699.8
5	Václav Bečvář (CZE)	597	10.4	10.5	10.4	9.4	10.4	10.6	10.5	10.4	10.1	10.0	102.7	699.7
6	Artem Khadjibekov (RUS)	597	10.7	10.5	10.2	10.6	9.5	10.1	10.5	10.0	10.5	9.6	102.2	699.2	10.6
7	Igor Pirekeev (TKM)	597	10.5	10.5	10.0	10.2	10.1	9.6	10.7	9.9	10.6	10.1	102.2	699.2	10.2
8	Philippe Joualin (FRA)	596	10.1	10.2	9.9	10.1	10.4	10.8	10.7	10.0	10.7	10.1	103.0	699.0