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

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 Varga 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.^[1]

Men's 50 metre rifle prone at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date	19 September 1988
Competitors	55 from 33 nations
Winning score	703.9 (OR)
Medalists
Miroslav Varga  Czechoslovakia Cha Young-chul  South Korea Attila Záhonyi  Hungary
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Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Score	Notes
1	Miroslav Varga	Czechoslovakia	600	Q EWR OR
2	Cha Young-chul	South Korea	598	Q
3	Pavel Soukeník	Czechoslovakia	598	Q
4	Alister Allan	Great Britain	598	Q
5	Attila Záhonyi	Hungary	597	Q
6	Xu Xiaoguang	China	597	Q
7	Bernd Rücker	West Germany	597	Q
8	Michael Ashcroft	Canada	597	Q
9	Jan Gundersrud	Norway	596
10	Stephen Petterson	New Zealand	596
11	Per G. Hansson	Sweden	596
11	Stefan Lövbom	Sweden	596
11	Goran Maksimović	Yugoslavia	596
11	Alan Smith	Australia	596
15	Klavs Jørn Christensen	Denmark	595
15	Glenn Dubis	United States	595
15	Lothar Heinrich	Austria	595
15	Olaf Hess	East Germany	595
15	Kirill Ivanov	Soviet Union	595
15	Jiang Rong	China	595
15	Vladimir Lvov	Soviet Union	595
15	Kaoru Matsuo	Japan	595
15	Andreas Wolfram	East Germany	595
24	Pierre-Alain Dufaux	Switzerland	594
24	Juha Hirvi	Finland	594
24	Kwak Jung-hoon	South Korea	594
24	Eduard Papirov	Israel	594
24	Norbert Sturny	Switzerland	594
24	Kurt Thune	Finland	594
24	Patrick Vamplew	Canada	594
24	Webster Wright	United States	594
32	Jean-Pierre Amat	France	593
32	Pascal Bessy	France	593
32	Jorge González	Spain	593
32	Georgi Poliakov	Bulgaria	593
36	Jorge Bracero	Puerto Rico	592
36	Malcolm Cooper	Great Britain	592
36	Jørgen Just Herlufsen	Denmark	592
39	Adilbishiin Sangidorj	Mongolia	591
39	José Álvarez	Mexico	591
41	Donald Brook	Australia	590
41	Kurt Hillenbrand	West Germany	590
41	Julio César Iemma	Argentina	590
41	Petar Zaprianov	Bulgaria	590
45	Sandor Bereczky	Hungary	589
45	Albert Deuring	Austria	589
47	Srecko Pejovic	Yugoslavia	588
47	Geir Skirbekk	Norway	588
49	Daya Rajasinghe	Sri Lanka	587
50	Bruce Meredith	Virgin Islands	586
51	Ryohei Koba	Japan	584
51	Itzchak Yonassi	Israel	584
53	Roland Jacoby	Luxembourg	583
54	Jadaan Tarjam Al-Shammari[2]	Qatar	582
55	Kenneth Johnston	Zimbabwe	580

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

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
	Miroslav Varga (TCH)	600	103.9	703.9	OR
	Cha Young-chul (KOR)	598	104.8	702.8
	Attila Záhonyi (HUN)	597	104.9	701.9
4	Pavel Soukeník (TCH)	598	103.2	701.2
5	Alister Allan (GBR)	598	102.9	700.9
6	Xu Xiaoguang (CHN)	597	103.6	700.6
7	Bernd Rücker (FRG)	597	103.5	700.5
8	Michael Ashcroft (CAN)	597	101.5	698.5

OR Olympic record