# Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle three positions

Men's 50 metre rifle three positions (then known as small-bore free rifle) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. It was the first Olympic three positions competition to feature final shooting. Alister Allan set a new Olympic record in the qualification round but lost the final to his countryman Malcolm Cooper, who thus defended his title from Los Angeles.

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Prone | Stand | Kneel | Total | Notes |
| 1 | Alister Allan | Great Britain | 399 | 386 | 396 | 1181 | Q OR |
| 2 | Malcolm Cooper | Great Britain | 400 | 387 | 393 | 1180 | Q |
| 3 | Klavs Jørn Christensen | Denmark | 399 | 387 | 391 | 1177 | Q |
| 4 | Glenn Dubis | United States | 400 | 388 | 386 | 1174 | Q |
| 5 | Kirill Ivanov | Soviet Union | 399 | 382 | 392 | 1173 | Q |
| 6 | Harald Stenvaag | Norway | 395 | 389 | 389 | 1173 | Q |
| 7 | Hrachya Petikyan | Soviet Union | 394 | 387 | 392 | 1173 | Q |
| 8 | Goran Maksimović | Yugoslavia | 399 | 383 | 391 | 1173 | Q |
| 9 | Zhang Yingzhou | China | 397 | 386 | 389 | 1172 | |
| 10 | Andreas Wolfram | East Germany | 396 | 385 | 391 | 1172 | |
| 11 | Geir Skirbekk | Norway | 397 | 383 | 390 | 1170 | |
| 11 | Attila Záhonyi | Hungary | 398 | 387 | 385 | 1170 | |
| 13 | Jean-Pierre Amat | France | 398 | 377 | 394 | 1169 | |
| 13 | Daniel Durben | United States | 397 | 379 | 393 | 1169 | |
| 15 | Jorge González | Spain | 399 | 379 | 390 | 1168 | |
| 15 | Pavel Soukeník | Czechoslovakia | 398 | 375 | 395 | 1168 | |
| 17 | Juha Hirvi | Finland | 397 | 384 | 386 | 1167 | |
| 18 | Olaf Heß | East Germany | 395 | 378 | 393 | 1166 | |
| 18 | Stefan Lövbom | Sweden | 399 | 376 | 391 | 1166 | |
| 18 | Norbert Sturny | Switzerland | 398 | 380 | 388 | 1166 | |
| 21 | Pascal Bessy | France | 395 | 381 | 389 | 1165 | |
| 21 | Kwon Taek-yul | South Korea | 397 | 381 | 387 | 1165 | |
| 21 | Eduard Papirov | Israel | 399 | 378 | 388 | 1165 | |
| 21 | Srecko Pejovic | Yugoslavia | 395 | 377 | 393 | 1165 | |
| 25 | Jean-François Senecal | Canada | 397 | 380 | 387 | 1164 | |
| 25 | Xu Xiaoguang | China | 397 | 378 | 389 | 1164 | |
| 27 | Petar Zaprianov | Bulgaria | 398 | 379 | 385 | 1162 | |
| 28 | Ryohei Koba | Japan | 398 | 381 | 382 | 1161 | |
| 28 | Lee Eun-chul | South Korea | 395 | 379 | 387 | 1161 | |
| 28 | Ulrich Lind | West Germany | 399 | 375 | 387 | 1161 | |
| 28 | Georgi Poliakov | Bulgaria | 396 | 375 | 390 | 1161 | |
| 32 | Sándor Bereczky | Hungary | 398 | 372 | 390 | 1160 | |
| 32 | Petr Kůrka | Czechoslovakia | 396 | 375 | 389 | 1160 | |
| 34 | Kurt Thune | Finland | 395 | 378 | 386 | 1159 | |
| 35 | Pierre-Alain Dufaux | Switzerland | 397 | 376 | 385 | 1158 | |
| 36 | Lothar Heinrich | Austria | 391 | 373 | 393 | 1157 | |
| 36 | Mart Klepp | Canada | 395 | 369 | 393 | 1157 | |
| 38 | Johannes Gufler | Austria | 392 | 375 | 388 | 1155 | |
| 38 | Kurt Hillenbrand | West Germany | 395 | 371 | 389 | 1155 | |
| 40 | José Álvarez | Mexico | 398 | 369 | 387 | 1154 | |
| 40 | Donald Brook | Australia | 397 | 372 | 385 | 1154 | |
| 42 | Jørgen Herlufsen | Denmark | 398 | 369 | 386 | 1153 | |
| 43 | Itzchak Yonassi | Israel | 395 | 374 | 383 | 1152 | |
| 44 | Kaoru Matsuo | Japan | 395 | 372 | 380 | 1147 | |
| 45 | Per G. Hansson | Sweden | 396 | 365 | 385 | 1146 | |
| 46 | Alan Smith | Australia | 397 | 373 | 373 | 1143 | |
| 47 | Bruce Meredith | Virgin Islands | 397 | 364 | 380 | 1141 | |
OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Notes |
| | Malcolm Cooper (GBR) | 1180 | 99.3 | 1279.3 | OR |
| | Alister Allan (GBR) | 1181 | 94.6 | 1275.6 | |
| | Kirill Ivanov (URS) | 1173 | 102.0 | 1275.0 | |
| 4 | Klavs Jørn Christensen (DEN) | 1177 | 96.6 | 1273.6 | |
| 5 | Glenn Dubis (USA) | 1174 | 99.5 | 1273.5 | |
| 6 | Hrachya Petikyan (URS) | 1173 | 99.2 | 1272.2 | |
| 7 | Harald Stenvaag (NOR) | 1173 | 98.7 | 1271.7 | |
| 8 | Goran Maksimović (YUG) | 1173 | 98.5 | 1271.5 | |
OR Olympic record