# Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone

The Men's 50 metre rifle prone event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 3 August 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 60 shots with a .22 Long Rifle at 50 metres distance from the prone position. 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. These shots were scored in increments of .1, with a maximum score of 10.9. The total score from all 70 shots were used to determine final ranking.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification records :
| World record | Viatcheslav Botchkarev (URS) | 600 | Zagreb, Croatia | 13 July 1989 |
| Olympic record | Christian Klees (GER) | 600 | Atlanta, United States of America | 25 July 1996 |
Final records :
| World record | Christian Klees (GER) | 704.8 | Atlanta, United States of America | 25 July 1996 |
| Olympic record | Christian Klees (GER) | 704.8 | Atlanta, United States of America | 25 July 1996 |

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total | Inner 10s | Notes |
| 1 | Sergei Martynov | Belarus | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 600 | 53 | WR |
| 2 | Lionel Cox | Belgium | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 599 | 49 | |
| 3 | Rajmond Debevec | Slovenia | 100 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 596 | 42 | |
| 4 | Daniel Brodmeier | Germany | 98 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 595 | 41 | Shoot-off: 52.3 |
| 5 | Han Jin-Seop | South Korea | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 595 | 42 | Shoot-off: 52.2 |
| 6 | Niccolò Campriani | Italy | 100 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 595 | 42 | Shoot-off: 51.7 |
| 7 | Joydeep Karmakar | India | 99 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 595 | 37 | Shoot-off: 51.6 |
| 8 | Bojan Durković | Croatia | 97 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 595 | 33 | Shoot-off: 51.6 |
| 9 | Michael McPhail | United States | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 595 | 39 | Shoot-off: 51.3 |
| 10 | Nemanja Mirosavljev | Serbia | 100 | 99 | 100 | 97 | 99 | 100 | 595 | 34 | Shoot-off: 51.0 |
| 11 | Péter Sidi | Hungary | 100 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 595 | 39 | Shoot-off: 50.0 |
| 12 | Artem Khadjibekov | Russia | 98 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 595 | 41 | Shoot-off: 49.6 |
| 13 | Odd Arne Brekne | Norway | 100 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 594 | 47 | |
| 14 | Marcel Bürge | Switzerland | 99 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 594 | 43 | |
| 15 | Kim Hak-Man | South Korea | 98 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 594 | 40 | |
| 16 | Eric Uptagrafft | United States | 98 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 594 | 34 | |
| 17 | Jonathan Hammond | Great Britain | 99 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 593 | 42 | |
| 18 | Gagan Narang | India | 98 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 97 | 100 | 593 | 34 | |
| 19 | Sergei Kovalenko | Russia | 99 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 593 | 34 | |
| 20 | Alex Misael Suligoy | Argentina | 100 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 593 | 34 | |
| 21 | Artur Ayvazyan | Ukraine | 100 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 593 | 29 | |
| 22 | Valérian Sauveplane | France | 98 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 97 | 99 | 592 | 39 | |
| 23 | Christian Planer | Austria | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 97 | 99 | 592 | 39 | |
| 24 | Torben Grimmel | Denmark | 98 | 99 | 96 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 592 | 36 | |
| 25 | Ryan Taylor | New Zealand | 100 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 592 | 35 | |
| 26 | Ole Magnus Bakken | Norway | 99 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 592 | 34 | |
| 27 | Thomas Farnik | Austria | 98 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 592 | 29 | |
| 28 | Wang Weiyi | China | 96 | 100 | 97 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 591 | 39 | |
| 29 | James Huckle | Great Britain | 100 | 97 | 96 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 591 | 35 | |
| 30 | Yury Shcherbatsevich | Belarus | 96 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 591 | 32 | |
| 31 | Pascal Loretan | Switzerland | 98 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 591 | 28 | |
| 32 | Warren Potent | Australia | 98 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 591 | 25 | |
| 33 | Midori Yajima | Japan | 98 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 590 | 35 | |
| 34 | Zhu Qinan | China | 99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 97 | 98 | 590 | 34 | |
| 35 | Javier López | Spain | 100 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 96 | 99 | 589 | 37 | |
| 36 | Marco De Nicolo | Italy | 96 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 589 | 36 | |
| 37 | Maik Eckhardt | Germany | 99 | 100 | 98 | 94 | 100 | 98 | 589 | 35 | |
| 38 | Cory Niefer | Canada | 98 | 97 | 99 | 97 | 100 | 98 | 589 | 32 | |
| 39 | Jozef Gönci | Slovakia | 98 | 98 | 97 | 100 | 98 | 98 | 589 | 31 | |
| 40 | Nyantain Bayaraa | Mongolia | 98 | 97 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 96 | 588 | 35 | |
| 41 | Václav Haman | Czech Republic | 98 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 588 | 32 | |
| 42 | Anton Rizov | Bulgaria | 99 | 97 | 99 | 96 | 100 | 97 | 588 | 30 | |
| 43 | Peter Hellenbrand | Netherlands | 98 | 100 | 98 | 97 | 100 | 95 | 588 | 28 | |
| 44 | Sergey Richter | Israel | 97 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 587 | 31 | |
| 45 | Nedžad Fazlija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 98 | 98 | 97 | 97 | 98 | 98 | 587 | 26 | |
| 46 | Cyril Graff | France | 97 | 99 | 98 | 97 | 98 | 97 | 586 | 32 | |
| 47 | Mangala Samarakoon | Sri Lanka | 96 | 98 | 100 | 97 | 97 | 97 | 586 | 32 | |
| 48 | Dane Sampson | Australia | 96 | 97 | 99 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 583 | 29 | |
| 49 | Serhiy Kulish | Ukraine | 97 | 98 | 95 | 95 | 99 | 99 | 583 | 24 | |
| 50 | Juan Diego Angeloni | Argentina | 95 | 96 | 99 | 97 | 96 | 97 | 580 | 27 |

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final | Total | Notes |
| | Sergei Martynov (BLR) | 600 | 10.8 | 10.5 | 10.5 | 10.6 | 10.2 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 10.9 | 10.6 | 105.5 | 705.5 | WR |
| | Lionel Cox (BEL) | 599 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 10.5 | 10.3 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 9.7 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 102.2 | 701.2 | |
| | Rajmond Debevec (SLO) | 596 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 10.7 | 10.3 | 10.6 | 10.8 | 10.2 | 10.6 | 10.5 | 10.6 | 105.0 | 701.0 | |
| 4 | Joydeep Karmakar (IND) | 595 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 10.7 | 10.5 | 10.7 | 10.2 | 10.0 | 10.2 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 104.1 | 699.1 | |
| 5 | Daniel Brodmeier (GER) | 595 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 10.5 | 10.7 | 10.1 | 9.7 | 10.5 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 10.4 | 103.2 | 698.2 | |
| 6 | Han Jin-Seop (KOR) | 595 | 10.3 | 9.8 | 10.2 | 10.8 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 10.1 | 10.0 | 10.7 | 10.6 | 103.2 | 698.2 | |
| 7 | Bojan Durković (CRO) | 595 | 10.0 | 10.2 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 10.5 | 10.5 | 103.0 | 698.0 | |
| 8 | Niccolò Campriani (ITA) | 595 | 10.2 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.5 | 9.9 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 102.6 | 697.6 | |