The men's 50 metre rifle prone event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 12 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a .22 long rifle at 50 metres distance from the prone position. 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, they fired an additional 10 shots. These shots were scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots were used to determine final ranking.

The medals were presented by Syed Shahid Ali, IOC member, Pakistan and Yair Davidovich, Council Member of the International Shooting Sport Federation.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Qualification round RankAthleteCountry1 23456TotalInner 10sNotes1 Sergey Kamenskiy 103.9 105.1 106.0 104.7 105.2 104.1 629.0 Q, 2 Kirill Grigoryan 105.2 104.8 105.2 104.1 104.9 104.7 628.9 Q3 Kim Jong-hyun 103.1 105.6 103.9 104.9 105.2 105.4 628.1 Q4 Vitali Bubnovich 103.5 104.6 103.5 105.9 104.7 104.0 626.2 Q5 Marco De Nicolo 104.2 102.6 104.1 104.8 105.1 105.2 626.0 Q6 Niccolò Campriani 103.7 103.8 104.3 103.9 104.2 105.4 625.3 Q7 Attapon Uea-aree 104.5 103.9 104.2 104.8 105.6 102.3 625.3 Q8 Henri Junghänel 104.1 105.1 103.6 105.2 103.8 103.0 624.8 Q9 Cyril Graff 105.3 103.3 102.8 103.7 104.3 104.9 624.3 10 Péter Sidi 102.8 104.7 103.0 103.8 104.1 104.9 623.3 11 Kwon Jun-cheol 103.0 103.8 103.6 104.0 104.3 104.5 623.2 12 Oleh Tsarkov 103.3 105.0 103.7 104.4 103.5 103.2 623.1 13 Gagan Narang 104.7 104.4 104.6 103.0 104.0 102.4 623.1 14 Jan Lochbichler 104.3 103.0 105.5 104.0 102.8 103.4 623.0 15 Sergey Richter 102.0 102.1 105.6 104.2 105.1 103.6 622.6 16 Ryan Taylor 102.6 102.7 103.5 103.2 104.8 105.6 622.4 17 Thomas Mathis 103.3 102.9 104.5 103.2 104.2 104.3 622.4 18 Yury Shcherbatsevich 103.9 102.8 105.1 103.6 103.3 103.4 622.1 19 Michael McPhail 103.9 103.4 104.8 103.7 103.5 102.7 622.0 20 Petar Gorša 103.5 103.9 100.9 104.7 104.6 104.3 621.9 21 Stevan Pletikosić 101.5 102.5 103.8 104.2 105.9 103.7 621.6 22 Julio Iemma 103.7 103.7 102.0 104.1 104.6 103.4 621.5 23 Torben Grimmel 103.7 104.6 102.8 103.0 103.9 103.7 621.4 24 Alexander Schmirl 103.1 103.5 104.5 106.0 101.3 103.0 621.4 25 Yuriy Yurkov 104.6 104.7 102.7 102.8 104.4 104.2 621.4 26 Cassio Rippel 105.3 104.2 103.2 103.5 102.4 102.7 621.3 27 Anton Rizov 104.6 104.2 103.2 102.5 102.2 104.5 621.2 28 Odd Arne Brekne 103.3 103.5 101.4 103.8 103.4 105.5 620.9 29 Napis Tortungpanich 103.3 104.3 104.2 101.6 102.9 104.6 620.9 30 Cao Yifei 102.6 104.6 103.6 104.5 103.5 102.0 620.8 31 Dane Sampson 103.3 102.3 103.3 103.9 104.0 103.8 620.6 32 Serhiy Kulish 104.9 101.6 104.3 102.0 103.5 104.2 620.5 33 Filip Nepejchal 102.9 103.0 104.3 102.5 104.5 103.3 620.5 34 Milenko Sebić 104.7 102.2 104.3 103.3 103.3 102.6 620.4 35 Warren Potent 104.5 103.4 104.2 104.1 104.1 99.7 620.0 36 Chain Singh 104.1 101.0 104.4 102.4 103.9 103.8 619.6 37 Daniel Brodmeier 103.2 102.3 104.0 103.4 104.0 102.3 619.2 38 Zhao Shengbo 101.9 100.6 105.3 105.6 103.3 102.0 618.7 39 Jérémy Monnier 103.1 102.2 103.9 102.0 103.1 104.3 618.6 40 David Higgins 102.0 103.3 104.4 101.7 103.8 102.5 617.7 41 Toshikazu Yamashita 102.6 102.5 102.8 103.1 103.7 102.7 617.4 42 Norbert Szabián 103.5 103.9 102.7 101.7 103.5 102.0 617.3 43 Ole Kristian Bryhn 102.6 101.9 101.7 104.5 104.4 101.6 616.7 44 Ahmed Darwish 101.7 102.5 103.9 102.4 101.9 102.6 615.0 45 Reinier Estpinan 100.7 103.0 102.4 103.3 102.4 101.8 613.6 46 Mahmood Haji 101.5 102.4 101.0 102.9 100.9 103.9 612.6 47 Mangala Samarakoon 98.9 100.1 100.4 100.0 101.9 100.5 601.8

Final The final was changed according to the ISSF regulations. Athletes must fire 6 shots in 2×3 series before the lowest-ranked was eliminated in every other shot. RkAthlete1 23456789FinalNotes 31.4 32.0 21.5 20.7 21.3 19.9 21.2 20.4 21.1 209.5 31.831.121.120.320.420.821.120.720.9208.2 31.6 31.4 21.0 20.6 21.1 21.2 20.6 19.8 187.3 4 30.2 30.8 21.0 21.3 20.9 20.7 20.9 165.8 5 30.9 30.3 21.2 20.8 20.7 20.3 144.2 6 31.1 31.0 20.4 20.6 20.5 123.6 7 30.3 30.2 21.0 21.3 102.8 8 30.9 29.1 20.8 80.8

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