ISSF 50 meter rifle prone
50 metre rifle prone (formerly known as one of four free rifle disciplines) is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle (5.6 mm) 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.[2]
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| Men | |
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| Number of shots | 60 |
| Olympic Games | 1908–2016[1] |
| World Championships | Since 1929 |
| Abbreviation | FR60PR |
| Women | |
| Number of shots | 60 |
| Olympic Games | – |
| World Championships | Since 1966 |
| Abbreviation | STR60PR |
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 45.7 metres (50.0 yd) and 100 metres (110 yd).
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.[3] 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 6.5 kilograms (14 lb), as opposed to 8.0 kilograms (17.6 lb) 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
World Championships, Women
| Year | Place | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 |  Wiesbaden |
 Eulalia Zakrzewska (POL) |
 Margaret Thompson (USA) |
 Ferencne Kun (HUN) |
| 1970 | Phoenix |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Desanka Perović (YUG) |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Ann de Vos (RSA) |
 Margareta Gustafsson (SWE) |
| 1974 |  Thun |
Margaret Murdock (USA) |
Christina Gustafsson (SWE) |
 Nonka Shatarova (BUL) |
| 1978 |  Seoul |
Sue Ann Sandusky (USA) |
 Dominique Esnault (FRA) |
Karen Monez (USA) |
| 1982 |  Caracas |
 Sirpa Yloenen (FIN) |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Yvonne Hill (AUS) |
 Svetlana Komaristova (URS) |
| 1986 |  Suhl |
Eva Forian (HUN) |
Nonka Matova (BUL) |
 Roxana Lamasanu (ROM) |
| 1990 | Moscow |
Iryna Shylava (URS) |
Valentina Cherkasova (URS) |
Lessia Leskiv (URS) |
| 1994 |  Milan |
Petra Horneber (GER) |
Beth Herzman (USA) |
 Nieves Fernandez (ESP) |
| 1998 | Barcelona |
 Marina Bobkova (RUS) |
 Xian Wang (CHN) |
Elizabeth Bourland (USA) |
| 2002 | Lahti |
 Olga Dovgun (KAZ) |
Xian Wang (CHN) |
 Natallia Kalnysh (UKR) |
| 2006 |  Zagreb |
Olga Dovgun (KAZ) |
 Hanne Skarpodde (NOR) |
Varvara Kovalenko (KAZ) |
| 2010 | Munich |
 Tejaswini Sawant (IND) |
Joanna Nowakowska (POL) |
Olga Dovgun (KAZ) |
| 2014 | Granada |
Beate Gauss (GER) |
Chen Dongqi (CHN) |
 Esmari Van Reenen (RSA) |
| 2018 | Changwon |
 Seonaid McIntosh (GBR) |
Isabella Straub (GER) |
 Daniela Demjen Peskova (SVK) |
World Championships, Women Team
World Championships, total medals
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States (USA) | 11 | 7 | 6 | 24 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| 3 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Finland (FIN) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | Poland (POL) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Australia (AUS) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| 9 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | Germany (GER) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 12 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 13 | China (CHN) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 14 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 15 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 16 |  Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 17 | South Africa (SAF) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 18 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 19 |  Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 21 | France (FRA) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 22 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 23 |  Austria (AUT) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 24 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 25 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Slovenia (SLO) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 30 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (31 nations) | 46 | 46 | 46 | 138 | |
Current world records
Pre 2013 World Records
| Pre 2013 world records in 50 meter rifle prone | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Qualification | 600 | Viatcheslav Botchkarev (URS) Stevan Pletikosić (YUG) Jean-Pierre Amat (FRA) Christian Klees (GER) Sergei Martynov (BLR) Thomas Tamas (USA) Sergei Martynov (BLR) Sergei Martynov (BLR) Petr Litvinchuk (BLR) Wolfram Waibel Jr. (AUT) Wolfram Waibel Jr. (AUT) Christian Lusch (GER) Eric Uptagrafft (USA) Valérian Sauveplane (FRA) Sergei Martynov (BLR) Sergei Martynov (BLR) Matthew Emmons (USA) Guy Starik (ISR) Sergei Martynov (BLR) |
13 July 1989 29 August 1991 27 April 1994 25 July 1996 23 May 1997 28 July 1998 4 September 1998 8 June 2000 11 June 2003 18 July 2003 3 March 2004 27 October 2004 11 May 2005 11 May 2005 26 August 2005 29 March 2006 9 May 2007 18 May 2008 3 August 2012 |
Zagreb (YUG) Munich (GER) Havana (CUB) Atlanta (USA) Munich (GER) Barcelona (ESP) Buenos Aires (ARG) Munich (GER) Munich (GER) Plzeň (CZE) Sydney (AUS) Bangkok (THA) Fort Benning (USA) Fort Benning (USA) Munich (GER) Guangzhou (CHN) Bangkok (THA) Munich (GER) London (ENG) |
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| Final | 705.5 | Sergei Martynov (BLR) (600+105.5) |
3 August 2012 | London (UK) | ||||
| Teams | 1793 | Austria (Knögler, Planer, Waibel) |
July 19, 2003 | Plzeň (CZE) | ||||
| Junior Men | Individual | 600 | Stevan Pletikosić (YUG) |
August 29, 1991 | Munich (GER) | |||
| Teams | 1778 | Germany (Boschenrieder, Hahn, Junghaenel) |
July 9, 2008 | Plzeň (CZE) | ||||
| Women | Individual | 597 | Marina Bobkova (RUS) Olga Dovgun (KAZ) Olga Dovgun (KAZ) Olga Dovgun (KAZ) |
July 19, 1998 July 4, 2002 October 4, 2002 July 29, 2006 |
Barcelona (ESP) Lahti (FIN) Busan (KOR) Zagreb (CRO) |
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| Teams | 1786 | Soviet Union (Cherkasova, Leskiv, Shylava) |
August 15, 1990 | Moscow (URS) | ||||
| Junior Women | Individual | 598 | Katja Böttinger (GER) |
August 3, 2000 | Plzeň (CZE) | |||
| Teams | 1771 | Sweden (Bengtsson, Karlsson, Säker) |
July 14, 2009 | Osijek (CRO) | ||||
Current World Records
| Current world records in 50 meter rifle prone | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Individual | 633.0 | Sergey Kamenskiy (RUS) |
July 21, 2015 | Maribor (SLO) | |||
| Teams | 1878.3 | Poland (Majka, Bartnik, Romańczyk) |
September 16, 2019 | Bologna (ITA) | ||||
| Junior Men | Individual | 629.3 | Christoph Kaulich (GER) |
September 16, 2014 | Granada (ESP) | |||
| Teams | 1865.6 | Austria (Thum, Wadlegger, Diem) |
June 24, 2017 | Suhl (GER) | ||||
| Women (ISSF) | Individual | 628.5 | Beate Gauss (GER) |
September 14, 2014 | Granada (ESP) | |||
| Teams | 1871.6 | Russia (Zykova, Ivanova, Khorosheva) |
September 16, 2019 | Bologna (ITA) | ||||
| Women (CISM) | Individual | 625.5 | Bae So-hee (KOR) |
14 November 2016 | Doha (QAT) | |||
| Teams | 1861.0 | China (Wan, Yin, Gao) Germany (Müller, Beer, Rachl) |
14 November 2016 14 November 2016 |
Doha (QAT) Doha (QAT) |
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| Junior Women | Individual | 627.9 | Jeanette Hegg Duestad (NOR) |
July 14, 2019 | Suhl (GER) | |||
| Teams | 1865.5 | Norway (Duestad, Stette, Engevik) |
July 14, 2019 | Suhl (GER) | ||||
References
- "Historical Results". ISSF. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- Official Statues Rules and Regulations Edition 2013 first print table 7.9
- "ISSF Meetings: Tokyo 2020 recommendation, Agenda 2020 implementations and Championships designation". ISSF Sports. February 23, 2017.