Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 50 m Rifle Prone

The men's 50 metre rifle prone
50 metre rifle prone
50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle caliber rifle...

competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

was held on August 20 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre

Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre

The Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre was the site of the shooting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The venue is located in Markópoulo, on the outskirts of the eastern suburbs of Athens. It has a seating capacity of 4,000, though a public capacity of only 2,330 for the Olympics...

near Athens

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. The young American

United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics

The United States was represented at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, by the United States Olympic Committee . The delegation of 613 athletes was the largest the country has ever sent to the Summer Olympics...

Matthew Emmons

Matthew D. Emmons is an American sport shooter.-Careers:Emmons started out as a successful junior and has been a holder of the junior world record in 50 metre rifle three positions...

maintained his one-point lead from the qualification round, won the event, and his first Olympic medal.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Score	Notes
1	Matthew Emmons Matthew Emmons Matthew D. Emmons is an American sport shooter.-Careers:Emmons started out as a successful junior and has been a holder of the junior world record in 50 metre rifle three positions...	599	Q
2	Christian Lusch Christian Lusch Christian Lusch is a German sport shooter.He was born in Bühl , Germany. He represented Germany at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, and won the silver medal in the rifle, prone, at 50 metres, and came in 12th in the rifle, prone, three positions, at 50 metres...	598	Q
3	Jozef Gönci Jozef Gönci Jozef Gönci is a Slovak sport shooter, specialising in the 50 m Rifle and 10 m Air Rifle. Gönci won independent Slovakia's first ever Olympic Medal, a bronze in Atlanta in 1996. He won another bronze medal eight years later at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.- External links :*...	598	Q
4	Maik Eckhardt	596	Q
5	Sergei Martynov Sergei Martynov (sport shooter) Sergei Martynov is a Belarusian 50 m Rifle shooter, originally from Russia....	596	Q
6	Michael Babb	595	Q
7	Jia Zhanbo Jia Zhanbo Jia Zhanbo is a male Chinese sports shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.He won the gold medal in the men's 50 metre rifle three positions competition. He also competed in the men's 50 metre rifle prone event and finished eighth....	595	Q
8	Marco De Nicolo	595	Q
9	Artur Ayvazyan	594
9	Marcel Bürge	594
9	Rajmond Debevec Rajmond Debevec Rajmond Debevec was born in Postojna, Slovenia, a part of the former Yugoslavia, on March 29, 1963. He became involved in shooting sports in 1971 and became a member of Junior national team in 1979. He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in Junior European Championship with air rifle...	594
9	Torben Grimmel	594
9	Juha Hirvi Juha Hirvi Juha Hirvi is a Finnish sport shooter. He won the silver medal in men's 50 metre rifle three positions at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He has also won two silver medals in ISSF World Shooting Championships...	594
9	Artem Khadjibekov Artem Khadjibekov Artem Aleksandrovich Khadjibekov is a Russian sport shooter, specializing in the rifles event. He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games and silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in the 10 metre air rifle event.He also competed at 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.-Olympic...	594
9	Igor Pirekeev	594
16	Václav Bečvář	592
16	Espen Berg-Knutsen	592
16	Mario Knögler	592
16	Sergei Kovalenko	592
16	Timothy Lowndes	592
16	Guy Starik Guy Starik Guy Starik is an Israeli sport shooter who has competed in four Olympics. He has won gold medals in shooting at both the European Championships and at four World Cups, and shares the world record in the 50 meter rifle prone competition....	592
16	Harald Stenvaag Harald Stenvaag Harald Stenvaag is a Norwegian rifle shooter who started competing internationally at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in Switzerland in 1974. He has represented Norway in the Summer Olympics 6 times, and has two Olympic medals...	592
16	Wolfram Waibel Jr. Wolfram Waibel Jr. Wolfram Waibel Jr. is an Austrian sport shooter.He was born in Hohenems, Austria. He competed for Austria and won both a silver medal and a bronze medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics. He shares the world record in the 50 meter rifle prone competition.-Current world record in 50 m rifle prone...	592
24	Michael Anti Michael Anti (sport shooter) Michael Anti is an American sport shooter, a former Major in the U.S. Army, and a marksman in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program....	591
24	Alexander Babchenko	591
24	Tomáš Jeřábek	591
24	Park Bong-duk	591
24	Yury Shcherbatsevich	591
24	Péter Sidi	591
24	Vyacheslav Skoromnov	591
24	Masaru Yanagida	591
32	Jonas Edman Jonas Edman Jonas Edman is a Swedish rifle shooter, specializing in the Prone position. He was a 300 m Rifle specialist during most of the 1990s and a part of the winning team at the 1998 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Zaragoza, Spain. After this however, he started to focus in the Olympic 50 m...	590
32	Roger Hansson	590
32	Jury Sukhorukov Jury Sukhorukov Jury Sukhorukov is an Olympic shooter from Ukraine. He won a silver medal in the Men's 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-References:...	590
32	Yao Ye Yao Ye Yao Ye is a male Chinese sports shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.In 2004 he finished 32nd in the men's 50 metre rifle prone competition.-External links:*...	590
36	Evangelos Liogris	589
36	Tevarit Majchacheep	589
36	Ryan Taylor	589
39	Martin Senore	588
40	Pablo Damian Alvarez	587
40	Dick Boschman	587
42	Stevan Pletikosić Stevan Pletikosic Stevan Pletikosić is a sport shooter from Serbia. While still a junior, he won a bronze medal in Men's 50 m Rifle Prone in the 1992 Summer Olympics...	586
42	Warren Potent Warren Potent Warren James Potent is an Australian sport shooter. He won the bronze medal in the 50 metre rifle prone at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He won two of the four competitions during the 2007 World Cup season...	586
44	Nedžad Fazlija Nedžad Fazlija Nedžad Fazlija is a Bosnian Olympic sports shooter. He was born in Foča, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia.So far the only male shooter to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Olympics, he was a part of the Bosnian Olympic team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004...	585
45	Angel Rosendo Velarte	584
46	Reinier Estpinan	581

Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Qual	Final	Total
	599	104.3	703.3
		104.2	702.2
	596	105.6	701.6
4	598	102.5	700.5
5	595	104.7	699.7
6		101.6	697.6
7		101.8	696.8
8		101.6	696.6

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.