ISSF 50 meter 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. The time limit is 75 minutes for the entire match, including sighting shots, or 90 minutes if there is a need to compensate for slow scoring systems. In the 2013 ISSF rules the 60-shot prone match consists of 15-minute preparation and sighting time, followed by the match - 60 shots in 50 minutes for electronic scoring, and 60 shots in 60 minutes for paper targets.
The sport is based on the traditional "English Match" that also consisted of 60 shots in the prone position with a.22 rifle, but had varying distances between and.
Before 2017, the men's event was included in the Olympic program but starting with the 2020 Olympics this event has been deleted to promote equal gender in Olympic shooting sports. Mixed gender doubles events were introduced to replace this event and two other individual shooting events. Now this event is contested in World Championships only. This includes a final for the top eight competitors. Beginning with the 2013 season, a new finals format was instituted, in which the qualification score is discarded, and the standings among the top eight shooters are determined by their finals scores alone. The course of fire was also changed significantly with the new rules, from the previous 10-shot and then 20-shots program into a 24-shot elimination format, with the lowest ranking shooter eliminated every two shots, starting from the completion of 12th shot.
The women's event is not Olympic but included in both the ISSF and the CISM World Championships. Since the final was discontinued in 2018, shooters with the same score are separated by a number of tie-breaking criteria, the first being the number of inner tens. Women's rifles may weigh up to, as opposed to for men, but after the switch from standard rifles to sport rifles this is now the only difference in equipment.
World Championships, Men
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World Championships, Men Team
Year | Place | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
1962 | ![]() | ![]() Christer Gustafsson Kurt Johansson Jan Emil Poignant Nils Johan Sundberg | ![]() Gary Anderson James Enoch Hill Presley Kendall Verle Franklin Jun. Wright | ![]() Rudolf Bortz Peter Kohnke Karl Wenk Klaus Zaehringer |
1966 | ![]() | ![]() Donald Adams David Boyd Bill Krilling Lones Wigger | ![]() Janusz Kalmus Stanislaw Marucha Jerzy Nowicki Andrzej Trajda | ![]() Vassily Borisov Alexander Gerasimenok Yuri Kudryashov Marat Niyazov |
1970 | ![]() | ![]() Giuseppe de Chirico Franco Donna Walter Frescura Luigi Testarmata | ![]() Marin Ferecatu Ștefan Kaban Gheorghe Vasilescu Stefan Tamas | ![]() Dusan Epifanic Branislav Loncar Zdravko Milutinovic Miroslav Sipek |
1974 | ![]() | ![]() Jouko Ilmari Hietalahti Pauli Aapeli Janhonen Esa Einari Kervinen Leif Lajunen | ![]() Victor Auer Presley Kendall Margaret Murdock Lones Wigger | ![]() Karel Bulan Petr Kovarik Karel Skyba Jiri Vogler |
1978 | ![]() | ![]() Lanny Bassham John Comley Boyd Goldsby Lones Wigger | ![]() Kurt Hillenbrand Ulrich Lind Karlheinz Smieszek Werner Seibold | ![]() Hans Braem Pierre Alain Dufaux Anton Mueller Robert Weilenmann |
1982 | ![]() | ![]() Victor Daniltchenko Gennadi Lushikov Alexander Mitrofanov Viktor Vlasov | ![]() Hubert Bichler Peter Heinz Ulrich Lind Werner Seibold | ![]() Albert Deuring Lothar Heinrich Hannes Rainer Wolfram Waibel Sr. |
1986 | ![]() | ![]() Donald Brook Warren Potent Alan Smith | ![]() Bernd Hartstein Mario Gonsierowski Hellfried Heilfort | ![]() Christian Heller Stefan Lövbom Hans Strand |
1990 | ![]() | ![]() Viatcheslav Botchkarev Gennadi Lushikov Sergei Martynov | ![]() Jaromir Bures Vaclav Becvar Miroslav Varga | ![]() Rajmond Debevec Goran Maksimovic Nemanja Mirosavljev |
1994 | ![]() | ![]() Artur Ayvazyan Oleg Dementyev Andriy Sheykin | ![]() Jean-Pierre Amat Michel Bury Dominique Maquin | ![]() Viatcheslav Botchkarev Artem Khadjibekov Sergei Schedrin |
1998 | ![]() | ![]() Thomas Tamas Glenn Dubis Lance Hopper | ![]() Peter Bubernik Miroslav Svorada Jozef Gönci | ![]() Roberto Vitobello Marco de Nicolo Roberto Facheris |
2002 | ![]() | ![]() Espen Berg-Knutsen Vebjoern Berg Harald Stenvaag | ![]() Oleg Mykhaylov Artur Ayvazyan Jury Sukhorukov | ![]() Konstantin Prikhodtchenko Sergei Kovalenko Artem Khadjibekov |
2006 | ![]() | ![]() Michael McPhail Eric Uptagrafft Matthew Emmons | ![]() Mario Knoegler Christian Planer Alexander Uhl | ![]() Peter Sidi Tibor Gabor Mlinkovics Szabolcs Herczegh |
2010 | ![]() | ![]() Michael McPhail Eric Uptagrafft Matthew Emmons | ![]() Han Jinseop Kim Jonghyun Kim Hakman | ![]() Artem Khadjibekov Konstantin Prikhodtchenko Dmitry Ponomarev |
2014 | ![]() | ![]() Zhao Shengbo Lan Xing Liu Gang | ![]() Sergei Martynov Yuri Shcherbatsevich Vitali Bubnovich | ![]() Stevan Pletikosić Milenko Sebić Nemanja Mirosavljev |
2018 | ![]() | ![]() Daniel Brodmeier Christoph Kaulich Maximilian Dallinger | ![]() Michael McPhail Matthew Emmons Lucas Kozeniesky | ![]() Zhao Zhonghao Sun Jian Liu Gang |
World Championships, Women
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World Championships, Women Team
Year | Place | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
1966 | ![]() | ![]() Barbara Kopyt Bozena Wzietek Eulalia Zakrzewska | ![]() Marianne Jensen Patricia Kinsella Margaret Thompson | ![]() Oszkarne Kellner Lajosne Kisgyorgy Ferencne Kun |
1970 | ![]() | ![]() Magdalena Herold Mirjana Masic Desanka Perovic | ![]() Ingrid Kappes Gerlinde Popp Anneliese Rhomberg | ![]() Tamara Cherkasova Lucia Fagereva Tatiana Ratnikova |
1974 | ![]() | ![]() Schuyler Helbing Margaret Murdock Diana Zimmermann | ![]() Mirjana Masic Desanka Pesut Valeria Sabatka | ![]() Margareta Gustafsson Christina Gustafsson Brita Raning |
1978 | ![]() | ![]() Karen Monez Wanda Oliver Sue Ann Sandusky | ![]() Yvette Courault Dominique Esnault Elisabeth Lesou | ![]() Tricia van Nus Sylvia Muehlberg Tracey Smith |
1982 | ![]() | ![]() Yvonne Gowland Yvonne Hill Sylvia Muehlberg | ![]() Svetlana Komaristova Lessia Leskiv Tatiana Sytcheva | ![]() Yvette Courault Dominique Esnault Isabelle Heberle |
1986 | ![]() | ![]() Vesna Domazet Mirjana Jovovic Biserka Vrbek | ![]() Petja Doudekova Vesela Letcheva Nonka Matova | ![]() Anette Andersson Margareta Gustafsson Christina Gustafsson |
1990 | ![]() | ![]() Valentina Cherkasova Lessia Leskiv Iryna Shylava | ![]() Vesela Letcheva Nonka Matova Milena Spasova | ![]() Tammie Deangles Launi Meili Kristen Peterson |
1994 | ![]() | ![]() Valentina Cherkasova Irina Gerasimenok Anna Maloukhina | ![]() Lindy Hansen Grethe Martinsen Hanne Vataker | ![]() Lessia Leskiv Tatiana Nesterova Olga Cheremska |
1998 | ![]() | ![]() Marina Bobkova Irina Gerasimenok Tatiana Goldobina | ![]() Xian Wang Yinghui Zhao Hong Shan | ![]() Lessia Leskiv Olga Larina Olena Davydova |
2002 | ![]() | ![]() Viivi Villa Jenni Ranta Helena Juppala | ![]() Pia Jakobsen Anni Bissoe Charlotte Jakobsen | ![]() Britta Grossecappenberg Petra Horneber Sonja Pfeilschifter |
2006 | ![]() | ![]() Sonja Pfeilschifter Dorothee Bauer Claudia Keck | ![]() Galina Korchma Olga Dovgun Varvara Kovalenko | ![]() Natallia Kalnysh Olena Davydova Lessia Leskiv |
2010 | ![]() | ![]() Aurelie Grangier Annik Marguet Irene Beyeler | ![]() Eva Friedel Sonja Pfeilschifter Nicole Stenzenberger | ![]() Kim Yooyeon Jeong Mira Kwon Nara |
2014 | ![]() | ![]() Beate Gauss Barbara Engleder Isabella Straub | ![]() Chen Dongqi Chang Jing Yi Siling | ![]() Lessia Leskiv Natallia Kalnysh Olga Golubchenko |
2018 | ![]() | ![]() Jaqueline Orth Isabella Straub Amelie Kleinmanns | ![]() Stine Nielsen Rikki Maeng Ibsen Stephanie Laura Scurrah Grundsoee | ![]() Seonaid McIntosh Jennifer McIntosh Zoe Anne Bruce |