Men's 50 metre rifle three positions (then known as free rifle) was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Both Jean-Pierre Amat and Sergey Belyayev reached a new Olympic record of 1175 points in the qualification round; Amat shot the better final and won the gold medal.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountryProneStandKneelTotalNotes1Jean-Pierre Amat3963873921175Q OR1Sergey Belyayev3993823941175Q OR3Goran Maksimović3943873921173Q4Rob Harbison3943883881170Q4Wolfram Waibel, Jr.3943893871170Q6Václav Bečvář3983813891168Q7Jozef Gönci3933823911166Q7Sergei Martynov3973773921166Q9Rajmond Debevec397381388116610Glenn Dubis398379388116510Maik Eckhardt397382386116510Ning Lijia397377391116513Thomas Farnik393382389116413Juha Hirvi397379388116413Artem Khadjibekov393384387116413Hrachya Petikyan396379389116413Guy Starik396379389116418Milan Bakeš395378390116318Vyacheslav Bochkarev398380385116318Nedžad Fazlija395377391116318Lee Eun-chul395377391116322Peter Gabrielsson387385390116222Jaco Henn397382383116222Robert Kraskowski394375393116222Boris Polak398379385116226Oleg Mykhaylov396382383116127Zsolt Vari393374393116028Nils Petter Håkedal398377383115828Jens Harskov399368391115828Anatoli Klimenko391380387115828Masaru Yanagida395383380115832Tadeusz Czerwinski396375386115732Yuri Lomov396377384115732Andreas Zumbach392377388115735Roger Chassat392385379115635Stevan Pletikosić398369389115637Jorge González399368388115537Christian Klees397376382115537Naoki Kurita400374381115540Cha Young-chul393375386115441Harald Stenvaag395380378115342Chen Xianjun399369380114843Michel Dion396365384114544Ángel Velarte392363387114245Ricardo Rusticucci3923643831139 OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final
Final RankAthleteQualFinalTotalShoot-offNotes1175 98.91273.9 OR1175 97.31272.3 1170 99.61269.6 41173 95.81268.8 51166101.71267.710.061170 97.71267.7 8.671168 96.01264.0 81166 97.91263.9 OR Olympic record
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