# Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle three positions

Men's 50 metre rifle three positions (then known as free rifle) was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Both Jean-Pierre Amat and Sergey Belyayev reached a new Olympic record of 1175 points in the qualification round; Amat shot the better final and won the gold medal.

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Prone | Stand | Kneel | Total | Notes |
| 1 | Jean-Pierre Amat | France | 396 | 387 | 392 | 1175 | Q OR |
| 1 | Sergey Belyayev | Kazakhstan | 399 | 382 | 394 | 1175 | Q OR |
| 3 | Goran Maksimović | FR Yugoslavia | 394 | 387 | 392 | 1173 | Q |
| 4 | Rob Harbison | United States | 394 | 388 | 388 | 1170 | Q |
| 4 | Wolfram Waibel, Jr. | Austria | 394 | 389 | 387 | 1170 | Q |
| 6 | Václav Bečvář | Czech Republic | 398 | 381 | 389 | 1168 | Q |
| 7 | Jozef Gönci | Slovakia | 393 | 382 | 391 | 1166 | Q |
| 7 | Sergei Martynov | Belarus | 397 | 377 | 392 | 1166 | Q |
| 9 | Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia | 397 | 381 | 388 | 1166 | |
| 10 | Glenn Dubis | United States | 398 | 379 | 388 | 1165 | |
| 10 | Maik Eckhardt | Germany | 397 | 382 | 386 | 1165 | |
| 10 | Ning Lijia | China | 397 | 377 | 391 | 1165 | |
| 13 | Thomas Farnik | Austria | 393 | 382 | 389 | 1164 | |
| 13 | Juha Hirvi | Finland | 397 | 379 | 388 | 1164 | |
| 13 | Artem Khadjibekov | Russia | 393 | 384 | 387 | 1164 | |
| 13 | Hrachya Petikyan | Armenia | 396 | 379 | 389 | 1164 | |
| 13 | Guy Starik | Israel | 396 | 379 | 389 | 1164 | |
| 18 | Milan Bakeš | Czech Republic | 395 | 378 | 390 | 1163 | |
| 18 | Vyacheslav Bochkarev | Russia | 398 | 380 | 385 | 1163 | |
| 18 | Nedžad Fazlija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 395 | 377 | 391 | 1163 | |
| 18 | Lee Eun-chul | South Korea | 395 | 377 | 391 | 1163 | |
| 22 | Peter Gabrielsson | Sweden | 387 | 385 | 390 | 1162 | |
| 22 | Jaco Henn | South Africa | 397 | 382 | 383 | 1162 | |
| 22 | Robert Kraskowski | Poland | 394 | 375 | 393 | 1162 | |
| 22 | Boris Polak | Israel | 398 | 379 | 385 | 1162 | |
| 26 | Oleg Mykhaylov | Ukraine | 396 | 382 | 383 | 1161 | |
| 27 | Zsolt Vari | Hungary | 393 | 374 | 393 | 1160 | |
| 28 | Nils Petter Håkedal | Norway | 398 | 377 | 383 | 1158 | |
| 28 | Jens Harskov | Denmark | 399 | 368 | 391 | 1158 | |
| 28 | Anatoli Klimenko | Belarus | 391 | 380 | 387 | 1158 | |
| 28 | Masaru Yanagida | Japan | 395 | 383 | 380 | 1158 | |
| 32 | Tadeusz Czerwinski | Poland | 396 | 375 | 386 | 1157 | |
| 32 | Yuri Lomov | Kyrgyzstan | 396 | 377 | 384 | 1157 | |
| 32 | Andreas Zumbach | Switzerland | 392 | 377 | 388 | 1157 | |
| 35 | Roger Chassat | France | 392 | 385 | 379 | 1156 | |
| 35 | Stevan Pletikosić | FR Yugoslavia | 398 | 369 | 389 | 1156 | |
| 37 | Jorge González | Spain | 399 | 368 | 388 | 1155 | |
| 37 | Christian Klees | Germany | 397 | 376 | 382 | 1155 | |
| 37 | Naoki Kurita | Japan | 400 | 374 | 381 | 1155 | |
| 40 | Cha Young-chul | South Korea | 393 | 375 | 386 | 1154 | |
| 41 | Harald Stenvaag | Norway | 395 | 380 | 378 | 1153 | |
| 42 | Chen Xianjun | China | 399 | 369 | 380 | 1148 | |
| 43 | Michel Dion | Canada | 396 | 365 | 384 | 1145 | |
| 44 | Ángel Velarte | Argentina | 392 | 363 | 387 | 1142 | |
| 45 | Ricardo Rusticucci | Argentina | 392 | 364 | 383 | 1139 | |
OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Shoot-off | Notes |
| | Jean-Pierre Amat (FRA) | 1175 | 98.9 | 1273.9 | | OR |
| | Sergey Belyayev (KAZ) | 1175 | 97.3 | 1272.3 | | |
| | Wolfram Waibel (AUT) | 1170 | 99.6 | 1269.6 | | |
| 4 | Goran Maksimović (YUG) | 1173 | 95.8 | 1268.8 | | |
| 5 | Jozef Gönci (SVK) | 1166 | 101.7 | 1267.7 | 10.0 | |
| 6 | Rob Harbison (USA) | 1170 | 97.7 | 1267.7 | 8.6 | |
| 7 | Václav Bečvář (CZE) | 1168 | 96.0 | 1264.0 | | |
| 8 | Sergei Martynov (BLR) | 1166 | 97.9 | 1263.9 | | |
OR Olympic record