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

Men's 50 metre rifle prone (then known as free rifle) was one of the fifteen shooting events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Christian Klees shot a perfect 600 in the qualification round and set a new World record after 104.8 points (of maximum 109.0) in the final. With an even better final round, Sergey Belyayev surpassed Jozef Gönci to win the silver medal.

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Score | Notes |
| 1 | Christian Klees | Germany | 600 | Q EWR OR |
| 2 | Jozef Gönci | Slovakia | 599 | Q |
| 3 | Sergei Martynov | Belarus | 598 | Q |
| 4 | Sergey Belyayev | Kazakhstan | 598 | Q |
| 5 | Bill Meek | United States | 597 | Q |
| 6 | Jorge González | Spain | 597 | Q |
| 7 | Lee Eun-chul | South Korea | 596 | Q (6th: 100) |
| 8 | Milan Mach | Czech Republic | 596 | Q (6th: 99) |
| 9 | Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia | 596 | (6th: 98) |
| 9 | Sergei Kovalenko | Russia | 596 | (6th: 98) |
| 11 | Václav Bečvář | Czech Republic | 595 | |
| 11 | Robert Kraskowski | Poland | 595 | |
| 11 | Li Wenjie | China | 595 | |
| 11 | Yuri Lomov | Kyrgyzstan | 595 | |
| 11 | Oleg Mykhaylov | Ukraine | 595 | |
| 11 | Igor Pirekeev | Turkmenistan | 595 | |
| 11 | Stevan Pletikosić | FR Yugoslavia | 595 | |
| 11 | Bernd Rücker | Germany | 595 | |
| 11 | Zsolt Vari | Hungary | 595 | |
| 20 | Chen Xianjun | China | 594 | |
| 20 | Tadeusz Czerwinski | Poland | 594 | |
| 20 | Artem Khadjibekov | Russia | 594 | |
| 20 | Kurt Koch | Switzerland | 594 | |
| 20 | Goran Maksimović | FR Yugoslavia | 594 | |
| 20 | Boris Polak | Israel | 594 | |
| 26 | Jens Harskov | Denmark | 593 | |
| 26 | Jaco Henn | South Africa | 593 | |
| 26 | Guy Starik | Israel | 593 | |
| 26 | Andreas Zumbach | Switzerland | 593 | |
| 30 | Michel Bury | France | 592 | |
| 30 | Michel Dion | Canada | 592 | |
| 30 | Naoki Kurita | Japan | 592 | |
| 30 | Georgi Nekhayev | Belarus | 592 | |
| 30 | Harald Stenvaag | Norway | 592 | |
| 30 | Eric Uptagrafft | United States | 592 | |
| 36 | Cha Young-chul | South Korea | 591 | |
| 36 | Nils Petter Håkedal | Norway | 591 | |
| 36 | Stephen Petterson | New Zealand | 591 | |
| 39 | Roger Chassat | France | 590 | |
| 39 | Torben Grimmel | Denmark | 590 | |
| 39 | Wolfram Waibel | Austria | 590 | |
| 42 | Thomas Farnik | Austria | 589 | |
| 42 | Peter Gabrielsson | Sweden | 589 | |
| 42 | Juha Hirvi | Finland | 589 | |
| 42 | Bruce Meredith | Virgin Islands | 589 | |
| 42 | Masaru Yanagida | Japan | 589 | |
| 47 | Ralph Rodriguez | Puerto Rico | 588 | |
| 48 | Jonathan Stern | Great Britain | 587 | |
| 49 | Anuj Desai | Kenya | 586 | |
| 50 | Khalaf Al Khatri | Oman | 584 | |
| 51 | Nedžad Fazlija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 583 | |
| 52 | Gary Duff | Ireland | 580 | |
EWR Equalled World record – OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Notes |
| | Christian Klees (GER) | 600 | 104.8 | 704.8 | WR OR |
| | Sergey Belyayev (KAZ) | 598 | 105.3 | 703.3 | |
| | Jozef Gönci (SVK) | 599 | 102.9 | 701.9 | |
| 4 | Jorge González (ESP) | 597 | 104.7 | 701.7 | |
| 5 | Milan Mach (CZE) | 596 | 104.9 | 700.9 | |
| 6 | Sergei Martynov (BLR) | 598 | 101.6 | 699.6 | |
| 7 | Lee Eun-chul (KOR) | 596 | 103.1 | 699.1 | |
| 8 | Bill Meek (USA) | 597 | 101.9 | 698.9 | |
OR Olympic record – WR World record