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.

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 round

RankAthleteCountryProne StandingKneelingTotalNotes1 Niccolò Campriani 3963903941180Q, OR2 Matthew Emmons 3963863901172Q 3 Cyril Graff 3953853911171Q 4 Yury Shcherbatsevich 3993803921171Q 5 Kim Jong-Hyun 3963853901171Q 6 Zhu Qinan 3923903881170Q 7 Ole Kristian Bryhn 3973853871169Q8 Péter Sidi 3943893851168Q, Shoot-off: 48.29 Han Jin-Seop 3983783921168 Shoot-off: 48.110 Artur Ayvazyan 3973833881168 Shoot-off: 47.811 Marcel Bürge 3973843871168 Shoot-off: 45.912 Thomas Farnik 3943823911167 13 Valérian Sauveplane 394382391 1167 14 Serhiy Kulish 390387389 1166 15 Marco De Nicolo 394380391 1165 16 Artem Khadjibekov 399377389 1165 17 Vitali Bubnovich 3963803881164 18 Denis Sokolov 396375393 1164 19 Simon Beyeler 394379391 1164 20 Gagan Narang 398377389116421 Maik Eckhardt 397382384 1163 22 Are Hansen 397382384 1163 23 Nemanja Mirosavljev 392379391 1162 24 Anton Rizov 395378389 1162 25 James Huckle 392384386 1162 26 Sanjeev Rajput 3953783881161 27 Rajmond Debevec 395378388 1161 28 Peter Hellenbrand 395385380 1160 29 Lan Xing 397378384 1159 30 Jason Parker 398383380 1159 31 Jozef Gönci 395381381 1157 32 Daniel Brodmeier 398374384 1156 33 Nyantain Bayaraa 393382379 1154 34 Václav Haman 395374384 1153 35 Bojan Durković 396369387 1152 36 Javier López 396375380 1151 37 Dane Sampson 3923813781151 38 Nedžad Fazlija 3923723851149 39 Midori Yajima 394367387 1148 40 Ruslan Ismailov 392376378 1146 41 Jonathan Hammond 395361386 1142

Final RankAthleteQual1 2345678910FinalTotal118010.29.39.79.110.79.910.410.59.79.098.51278.5 (OR)117110.310.79.410.210.610.010.310.19.510.4101.51272.511729.29.810.110.510.49.910.710.610.57.699.31271.34117110.19.910.39.79.410.19.99.910.310.4100.01271.05117010.110.29.410.810.310.39.49.910.39.5100.21270.26116810.59.810.69.39.710.010.110.210.210.6101.01269.07116910.79.99.88.110.48.89.710.710.510.298.81267.8811719.010.69.69.59.58.89.410.79.79.596.31267.3

References

External links Official results