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.

Men's 50 metre rifle three positions at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Royal Artillery Barracks
Date	6 August 2012
Competitors	41 from 28 nations
Winning score	1278.5
Medalists
Niccolò Campriani  Italy Kim Jong-Hyun  South Korea Matthew Emmons  United States

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 off 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 records
World record	Rajmond Debevec (SLO)	1186	Munich, Germany	29 August 1992
Olympic record	Rajmond Debevec (SLO)	1177	Sydney, Australia	23 September 2000

Final records
World record	Rajmond Debevec (SLO)	1287.9 (1186+101.9)	Munich, Germany	29 August 1992
Olympic record	Rajmond Debevec (SLO)	1275.1 (1177+98.1)	Sydney, Australia	23 September 2000

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Prone	Standing	Kneeling	Total	Notes
1	Niccolò Campriani	Italy	396	390	394	1180	Q, OR
2	Matthew Emmons	United States	396	386	390	1172	Q
3	Cyril Graff	France	395	385	391	1171	Q
4	Yury Shcherbatsevich	Belarus	399	380	392	1171	Q
5	Kim Jong-Hyun	South Korea	396	385	390	1171	Q
6	Zhu Qinan	China	392	390	388	1170	Q
7	Ole Kristian Bryhn	Norway	397	385	387	1169	Q
8	Péter Sidi	Hungary	394	389	385	1168	Q, Shoot-off: 48.2
9	Han Jin-Seop	South Korea	398	378	392	1168	Shoot-off: 48.1
10	Artur Ayvazyan	Ukraine	397	383	388	1168	Shoot-off: 47.8
11	Marcel Bürge	Switzerland	397	384	387	1168	Shoot-off: 45.9
12	Thomas Farnik	Austria	394	382	391	1167
13	Valérian Sauveplane	France	394	382	391	1167
14	Serhiy Kulish	Ukraine	390	387	389	1166
15	Marco De Nicolo	Italy	394	380	391	1165
16	Artem Khadjibekov	Russia	399	377	389	1165
17	Vitali Bubnovich	Belarus	396	380	388	1164
18	Denis Sokolov	Russia	396	375	393	1164
19	Simon Beyeler	Switzerland	394	379	391	1164
20	Gagan Narang	India	398	377	389	1164
21	Maik Eckhardt	Germany	397	382	384	1163
22	Are Hansen	Norway	397	382	384	1163
23	Nemanja Mirosavljev	Serbia	392	379	391	1162
24	Anton Rizov	Bulgaria	395	378	389	1162
25	James Huckle	Great Britain	392	384	386	1162
26	Sanjeev Rajput	India	395	378	388	1161
27	Rajmond Debevec	Slovenia	395	378	388	1161
28	Peter Hellenbrand	Netherlands	395	385	380	1160
29	Lan Xing	China	397	378	384	1159
30	Jason Parker	United States	398	383	380	1159
31	Jozef Gönci	Slovakia	395	381	381	1157
32	Daniel Brodmeier	Germany	398	374	384	1156
33	Nyantain Bayaraa	Mongolia	393	382	379	1154
34	Václav Haman	Czech Republic	395	374	384	1153
35	Bojan Durković	Croatia	396	369	387	1152
36	Javier López	Spain	396	375	380	1151
37	Dane Sampson	Australia	392	381	378	1151
38	Nedžad Fazlija	Bosnia and Herzegovina	392	372	385	1149
39	Midori Yajima	Japan	394	367	387	1148
40	Ruslan Ismailov	Kyrgyzstan	392	376	378	1146
41	Jonathan Hammond	Great Britain	395	361	386	1142

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final	Total
	Niccolò Campriani (ITA)	1180	10.2	9.3	9.7	9.1	10.7	9.9	10.4	10.5	9.7	9.0	98.5	1278.5 (OR)
	Kim Jong-Hyun (KOR)	1171	10.3	10.7	9.4	10.2	10.6	10.0	10.3	10.1	9.5	10.4	101.5	1272.5
	Matthew Emmons (USA)	1172	9.2	9.8	10.1	10.5	10.4	9.9	10.7	10.6	10.5	7.6	99.3	1271.3
4	Cyril Graff (FRA)	1171	10.1	9.9	10.3	9.7	9.4	10.1	9.9	9.9	10.3	10.4	100.0	1271.0
5	Zhu Qinan (CHN)	1170	10.1	10.2	9.4	10.8	10.3	10.3	9.4	9.9	10.3	9.5	100.2	1270.2
6	Péter Sidi (HUN)	1168	10.5	9.8	10.6	9.3	9.7	10.0	10.1	10.2	10.2	10.6	101.0	1269.0
7	Ole Kristian Bryhn (NOR)	1169	10.7	9.9	9.8	8.1	10.4	8.8	9.7	10.7	10.5	10.2	98.8	1267.8
8	Yury Shcherbatsevich (BLR)	1171	9.0	10.6	9.6	9.5	9.5	8.8	9.4	10.7	9.7	9.5	96.3	1267.3

External links

• Official results