# Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle three positions

The Men's 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 17 at the Beijing Shooting Range Hall, the last shooting event of the Beijing Olympics.
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, they fired an additional 10 shots, all from the standing position. These shots scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 130 shots was used to determine the final ranking.

## Records

The existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification records :
| World record | Rajmond Debevec (SLO) | 1186 | Munich, Germany | 29 August 1992 |
| Olympic record | Rajmond Debevec (SLO) | 1177 | Sydney, Australia | 23 September 2000 |
Final records :
| World record | Rajmond Debevec (SLO) | 1287.9 (1186+101.9) | Munich, Germany | 29 August 1992 |
| Olympic record | Rajmond Debevec (SLO) | 1275.1 (1177+98.1) | Sydney, Australia | 23 September 2000 |

## Qualification round
### Prone position

| Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | Notes |
| Matthew Emmons | United States | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 399 | |
| Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 399 | |
| Toshikazu Yamashita | Japan | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 399 | |
| Sergei Martynov | Belarus | 99 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 398 | |
| Stevan Pletikosić | Serbia | 99 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 398 | |
| Vebjørn Berg | Norway | 100 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 398 | |
| Nemanja Mirosavljev | Serbia | 100 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 398 | |
| Vitaliy Dovgun | Kazakhstan | 99 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 398 | |
| Jury Sukhorukov | Ukraine | 99 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 398 | |
| Park Bong-duk | South Korea | 100 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 398 | |
| Maik Eckhardt | Germany | 100 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 398 | |
| Juha Hirvi | Finland | 98 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 397 | |
| Marcel Bürge | Switzerland | 99 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 396 | |
| Espen Berg-Knutsen | Norway | 98 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 396 | |
| Marco De Nicolo | Italy | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 396 | |
| Doron Egozi | Israel | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 396 | |
| Michael Winter | Germany | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 396 | |
| Valérian Sauveplane | France | 99 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 396 | |
| Mario Knögler | Austria | 99 | 96 | 100 | 100 | 395 | |
| Sanjeev Rajput | India | 98 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 395 | |
| Gil Simkovitch | Israel | 98 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 395 | |
| Beat Müller | Switzerland | 99 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 395 | |
| Yuriy Yurkov | Kazakhstan | 100 | 98 | 97 | 100 | 395 | |
| Robert Kraskowski | Poland | 99 | 100 | 97 | 99 | 395 | |
| Niccolò Campriani | Italy | 99 | 99 | 100 | 97 | 395 | |
| Jonathan Hammond | Great Britain | 100 | 100 | 98 | 97 | 395 | |
| Vitali Bubnovich | Belarus | 97 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 394 | |
| Liecer Perez | Cuba | 97 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 394 | |
| Qiu Jian | China | 98 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 394 | |
| Jozef Gönci | Slovakia | 100 | 96 | 99 | 99 | 394 | |
| Sergei Kovalenko | Russia | 98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 394 | |
| Gagan Narang | India | 98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 394 | |
| Jia Zhanbo | China | 99 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 394 | |
| Péter Sidi | Hungary | 98 | 100 | 97 | 99 | 394 | |
| Artur Ayvazyan | Ukraine | 99 | 97 | 100 | 98 | 394 | |
| Petar Gorša | Croatia | 97 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 393 | |
| Jason Parker | United States | 99 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 393 | |
| Nedžad Fazlija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 98 | 99 | 99 | 97 | 393 | |
| Han Jin-seop | South Korea | 100 | 96 | 97 | 99 | 392 | |
| Benjamin Burge | Australia | 100 | 96 | 99 | 97 | 392 | |
| Artem Khadjibekov | Russia | 97 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 391 | |
| Václav Haman | Czech Republic | 97 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 391 | |
| Thomas Farnik | Austria | 98 | 98 | 99 | 96 | 391 | |
| Henri Häkkinen | Finland | 97 | 98 | 96 | 99 | 390 | |
| Siddique Umer | Pakistan | 95 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 390 | |
| Mohamed Amer | Egypt | 98 | 99 | 97 | 96 | 390 | |
| Matthew Robert Inabinet | Australia | 96 | 97 | 98 | 98 | 389 | |
| Josselin Henry | France | 97 | 97 | 97 | 97 | 388 | |
| Ruslan Ismailov | Kyrgyzstan | 99 | 96 | 96 | 97 | 388 | |
| Tomáš Jeřábek | Czech Republic | | | | | | Did not start |

### Standing position

| Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Marco De Nicolo | Italy | 97 | 96 | 97 | 99 | 389 |
| Matthew Emmons | United States | 97 | 99 | 96 | 97 | 389 |
| Gagan Narang | India | 98 | 99 | 96 | 96 | 389 |
| Qiu Jian | China | 95 | 94 | 99 | 99 | 387 |
| Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 386 |
| Thomas Farnik | Austria | 97 | 99 | 93 | 97 | 386 |
| Mario Knögler | Austria | 95 | 98 | 97 | 96 | 386 |
| Michael Winter | Germany | 97 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 385 |
| Artur Ayvazyan | Ukraine | 96 | 96 | 97 | 96 | 385 |
| Péter Sidi | Hungary | 96 | 96 | 97 | 96 | 385 |
| Juha Hirvi | Finland | 97 | 97 | 98 | 93 | 385 |
| Jason Parker | United States | 94 | 97 | 97 | 96 | 384 |
| Jury Sukhorukov | Ukraine | 98 | 96 | 94 | 96 | 384 |
| Valérian Sauveplane | France | 98 | 95 | 97 | 94 | 384 |
| Han Jin-seop | South Korea | 98 | 98 | 94 | 94 | 384 |
| Vebjørn Berg | Norway | 92 | 99 | 95 | 97 | 383 |
| Artem Khadjibekov | Russia | 97 | 92 | 98 | 96 | 383 |
| Sergei Kovalenko | Russia | 93 | 96 | 95 | 98 | 382 |
| Toshikazu Yamashita | Japan | 95 | 95 | 97 | 95 | 382 |
| Yuriy Yurkov | Kazakhstan | 98 | 95 | 94 | 95 | 382 |
| Nemanja Mirosavljev | Serbia | 93 | 96 | 94 | 98 | 381 |
| Henri Häkkinen | Finland | 95 | 95 | 94 | 97 | 381 |
| Vitaliy Dovgun | Kazakhstan | 94 | 97 | 98 | 92 | 381 |
| Václav Haman | Czech Republic | 93 | 95 | 96 | 96 | 380 |
| Beat Müller | Switzerland | 94 | 95 | 96 | 95 | 380 |
| Maik Eckhardt | Germany | 99 | 90 | 96 | 95 | 380 |
| Sanjeev Rajput | India | 95 | 96 | 98 | 91 | 380 |
| Vitali Bubnovich | Belarus | 97 | 96 | 96 | 91 | 380 |
| Stevan Pletikosić | Serbia | 91 | 94 | 97 | 96 | 378 |
| Jia Zhanbo | China | 96 | 96 | 93 | 93 | 378 |
| Niccolò Campriani | Italy | 95 | 92 | 95 | 95 | 377 |
| Petar Gorša | Croatia | 96 | 93 | 97 | 91 | 377 |
| Sergei Martynov | Belarus | 94 | 92 | 95 | 95 | 376 |
| Jozef Gönci | Slovakia | 96 | 93 | 93 | 94 | 376 |
| Nedžad Fazlija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 94 | 95 | 94 | 93 | 376 |
| Matthew Robert Inabinet | Australia | 97 | 95 | 92 | 92 | 376 |
| Doron Egozi | Israel | 93 | 94 | 96 | 92 | 375 |
| Espen Berg-Knutsen | Norway | 95 | 92 | 94 | 93 | 374 |
| Marcel Bürge | Switzerland | 92 | 96 | 90 | 95 | 373 |
| Robert Kraskowski | Poland | 92 | 95 | 92 | 94 | 373 |
| Park Bong-duk | South Korea | 94 | 94 | 91 | 94 | 373 |
| Liecer Perez | Cuba | 92 | 96 | 93 | 92 | 373 |
| Josselin Henry | France | 94 | 94 | 93 | 92 | 373 |
| Benjamin Burge | Australia | 96 | 92 | 93 | 92 | 373 |
| Jonathan Hammond | Great Britain | 94 | 92 | 92 | 92 | 370 |
| Mohamed Amer | Egypt | 95 | 91 | 89 | 94 | 369 |
| Gil Simkovitch | Israel | 91 | 91 | 92 | 94 | 368 |
| Ruslan Ismailov | Kyrgyzstan | 92 | 89 | 92 | 94 | 367 |
| Siddique Umer | Pakistan | 91 | 85 | 95 | 88 | 359 |

### Kneeling position

| Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Thomas Farnik | Austria | 100 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 394 |
| Artem Khadjibekov | Russia | 99 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 393 |
| Václav Haman | Czech Republic | 99 | 96 | 98 | 99 | 392 |
| Jury Sukhorukov | Ukraine | 99 | 97 | 98 | 98 | 392 |
| Stevan Pletikosić | Serbia | 98 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 392 |
| Valérian Sauveplane | France | 99 | 98 | 98 | 97 | 392 |
| Qiu Jian | China | 99 | 98 | 99 | 96 | 392 |
| Jia Zhanbo | China | 98 | 96 | 98 | 99 | 391 |
| Vebjørn Berg | Norway | 96 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 391 |
| Han Jin-seop | South Korea | 98 | 96 | 99 | 98 | 391 |
| Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia | 97 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 391 |
| Maik Eckhardt | Germany | 97 | 99 | 99 | 96 | 391 |
| Gil Simkovitch | Israel | 98 | 96 | 98 | 98 | 390 |
| Henri Häkkinen | Finland | 96 | 99 | 97 | 98 | 390 |
| Josselin Henry | France | 98 | 97 | 99 | 96 | 390 |
| Sergei Kovalenko | Russia | 99 | 97 | 98 | 96 | 390 |
| Espen Berg-Knutsen | Norway | 99 | 99 | 96 | 96 | 390 |
| Beat Müller | Switzerland | 96 | 97 | 98 | 98 | 389 |
| Mario Knögler | Austria | 98 | 99 | 96 | 96 | 389 |
| Robert Kraskowski | Poland | 98 | 96 | 95 | 99 | 388 |
| Park Bong-duk | South Korea | 96 | 97 | 98 | 97 | 388 |
| Benjamin Burge | Australia | 95 | 98 | 96 | 98 | 387 |
| Vitali Bubnovich | Belarus | 97 | 98 | 95 | 97 | 387 |
| Sanjeev Rajput | India | 99 | 94 | 98 | 96 | 387 |
| Matthew Emmons | United States | 99 | 95 | 98 | 95 | 387 |
| Jason Parker | United States | 98 | 97 | 98 | 94 | 387 |
| Artur Ayvazyan | Ukraine | 97 | 95 | 95 | 99 | 386 |
| Marcel Bürge | Switzerland | 97 | 96 | 96 | 97 | 386 |
| Nemanja Mirosavljev | Serbia | 96 | 98 | 95 | 97 | 386 |
| Toshikazu Yamashita | Japan | 98 | 96 | 97 | 95 | 386 |
| Juha Hirvi | Finland | 97 | 99 | 97 | 93 | 386 |
| Michael Winter | Germany | 96 | 98 | 92 | 99 | 385 |
| Yuriy Yurkov | Kazakhstan | 95 | 97 | 97 | 96 | 385 |
| Gagan Narang | India | 94 | 93 | 97 | 100 | 384 |
| Jozef Gönci | Slovakia | 96 | 94 | 96 | 98 | 384 |
| Marco De Nicolo | Italy | 98 | 92 | 97 | 97 | 384 |
| Doron Egozi | Israel | 94 | 97 | 97 | 96 | 384 |
| Péter Sidi | Hungary | 98 | 94 | 97 | 95 | 384 |
| Jonathan Hammond | Great Britain | 95 | 96 | 96 | 96 | 383 |
| Sergei Martynov | Belarus | 98 | 93 | 97 | 94 | 382 |
| Niccolò Campriani | Italy | 97 | 98 | 92 | 94 | 381 |
| Vitaliy Dovgun | Kazakhstan | 94 | 95 | 93 | 97 | 379 |
| Nedžad Fazlija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 96 | 95 | 93 | 95 | 379 |
| Petar Gorša | Croatia | 93 | 95 | 97 | 93 | 378 |
| Mohamed Amer | Egypt | 94 | 98 | 90 | 94 | 376 |
| Matthew Robert Inabinet | Australia | 92 | 97 | 95 | 92 | 376 |
| Ruslan Ismailov | Kyrgyzstan | 96 | 95 | 94 | 90 | 375 |
| Liecer Perez | Cuba | 91 | 92 | 91 | 93 | 367 |
| Siddique Umer | Pakistan | 95 | 92 | 88 | 92 | 367 |

### Combined results

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Prone | Stand | Kneel | Total | Notes |
| 1 | Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia | 399 | 386 | 391 | 1176 | Q |
| 2 | Matthew Emmons | United States | 399 | 389 | 387 | 1175 | Q |
| 3 | Jury Sukhorukov | Ukraine | 398 | 384 | 392 | 1174 | Q |
| 4 | Qiu Jian | China | 394 | 387 | 392 | 1173 | Q |
| 5 | Vebjørn Berg | Norway | 398 | 383 | 391 | 1172 | Q |
| 6 | Valérian Sauveplane | France | 396 | 384 | 392 | 1172 | Q |
| 7 | Thomas Farnik | Austria | 391 | 386 | 394 | 1171 | Q |
| 8 | Mario Knögler | Austria | 395 | 386 | 389 | 1170 | Q |
| 9 | Marco De Nicolo | Italy | 396 | 389 | 384 | 1169 | |
| 10 | Maik Eckhardt | Germany | 398 | 380 | 391 | 1169 | |
| 11 | Stevan Pletikosić | Serbia | 398 | 378 | 392 | 1168 | |
| 12 | Juha Hirvi | Finland | 397 | 385 | 386 | 1168 | |
| 13 | Gagan Narang | India | 394 | 389 | 384 | 1167 | |
| 14 | Artem Khadjibekov | Russia | 391 | 383 | 393 | 1167 | |
| 15 | Han Jin-seop | South Korea | 392 | 384 | 391 | 1167 | |
| 16 | Toshikazu Yamashita | Japan | 399 | 382 | 386 | 1167 | |
| 17 | Michael Winter | Germany | 396 | 385 | 385 | 1166 | |
| 18 | Sergei Kovalenko | Russia | 394 | 382 | 390 | 1166 | |
| 19 | Artur Ayvazyan | Ukraine | 394 | 385 | 386 | 1165 | |
| 20 | Nemanja Mirosavljev | Serbia | 398 | 381 | 386 | 1165 | |
| 21 | Beat Müller | Switzerland | 395 | 380 | 389 | 1164 | |
| 22 | Jason Parker | United States | 393 | 384 | 387 | 1164 | |
| 23 | Václav Haman | Czech Republic | 391 | 380 | 392 | 1163 | |
| 24 | Jia Zhanbo | China | 394 | 378 | 391 | 1163 | |
| 25 | Péter Sidi | Hungary | 394 | 385 | 384 | 1163 | |
| 26 | Sanjeev Rajput | India | 395 | 380 | 387 | 1162 | |
| 27 | Yuriy Yurkov | Kazakhstan | 395 | 382 | 385 | 1162 | |
| 28 | Henri Häkkinen | Finland | 390 | 381 | 390 | 1161 | |
| 29 | Vitali Bubnovich | Belarus | 394 | 380 | 387 | 1161 | |
| 30 | Espen Berg-Knutsen | Norway | 396 | 374 | 390 | 1160 | |
| 31 | Park Bong-duk | South Korea | 398 | 373 | 388 | 1159 | |
| 32 | Vitaliy Dovgun | Kazakhstan | 398 | 381 | 379 | 1158 | |
| 33 | Robert Kraskowski | Poland | 395 | 373 | 388 | 1156 | |
| 34 | Sergei Martynov | Belarus | 398 | 376 | 382 | 1156 | |
| 35 | Marcel Bürge | Switzerland | 396 | 373 | 386 | 1155 | |
| 36 | Doron Egozi | Israel | 396 | 375 | 384 | 1155 | |
| 37 | Jozef Gönci | Slovakia | 394 | 376 | 384 | 1154 | |
| 38 | Gil Simkovitch | Israel | 395 | 368 | 390 | 1153 | |
| 39 | Niccolò Campriani | Italy | 395 | 377 | 381 | 1153 | |
| 40 | Benjamin Burge | Australia | 392 | 373 | 387 | 1152 | |
| 41 | Josselin Henry | France | 388 | 373 | 390 | 1151 | |
| 42 | Jonathan Hammond | Great Britain | 395 | 370 | 383 | 1148 | |
| 43 | Nedžad Fazlija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 393 | 376 | 379 | 1148 | |
| 44 | Petar Gorša | Croatia | 393 | 377 | 378 | 1148 | |
| 45 | Matthew Robert Inabinet | Australia | 389 | 376 | 376 | 1141 | |
| 46 | Mohamed Amer | Egypt | 390 | 369 | 376 | 1135 | |
| 47 | Liecer Perez | Cuba | 394 | 373 | 367 | 1134 | |
| 48 | Ruslan Ismailov | Kyrgyzstan | 388 | 367 | 375 | 1130 | |
| 49 | Siddique Umer | Pakistan | 390 | 359 | 367 | 1116 | |
| | Tomáš Jeřábek | Czech Republic | | | | | DNS |
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## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final | Total |
| | Qiu Jian (CHN) | 1173 | 10.2 | 8.8 | 10.5 | 10.6 | 9.3 | 9.4 | 10.0 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.0 | 99.5 | 1272.5 |
| | Jury Sukhorukov (UKR) | 1174 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.1 | 9.1 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 10.4 | 9.8 | 98.4 | 1272.4 |
| | Rajmond Debevec (SLO) | 1176 | 7.7 | 10.2 | 7.9 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 10.5 | 9.2 | 10.0 | 9.9 | 10.8 | 95.7 | 1271.7 |
| 4 | Matthew Emmons (USA) | 1175 | 9.7 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 10.1 | 10.5 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 9.8 | 4.4 | 95.3 | 1270.3 |
| 5 | Thomas Farnik (AUT) | 1171 | 10.0 | 9.4 | 9.7 | 9.4 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 9.9 | 10.1 | 9.4 | 10.3 | 97.9 | 1268.9 |
| 6 | Mario Knögler (AUT) | 1170 | 8.2 | 10.1 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 9.3 | 98.4 | 1268.4 |
| 7 | Valérian Sauveplane (FRA) | 1172 | 8.8 | 9.2 | 10.3 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 7.9 | 9.5 | 9.2 | 10.0 | 95.1 | 1267.1 |
| 8 | Vebjørn Berg (NOR) | 1172 | 9.4 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 10.6 | 8.0 | 10.2 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 10.0 | 9.8 | 94.5 | 1266.5 |