50 m Rifle

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Men's 50 m Rifle Three Positions
Number of shots	3x40 + 10
Olympic Games	Since 1952
World Championships	Since 1939
Abbreviation	FR3X40
Women's 50 m Rifle Three Positions
Number of shots	3x20 + 10
Olympic Games	Since 1984
World Championships	Since 1966
Abbreviation	STR3X20
Men's 50 m Rifle Prone
Number of shots	60 + 10
Olympic Games	Since 1912
World Championships	Since 1929
Abbreviation	FR60PR
Women's 50 m Rifle Prone
Number of shots	60
World Championships	Since 1966
Abbreviation	STR60PR

50 m Rifle (formerly called Free Rifle for men, Standard Rifle and Sport Rifle for women) is a miniature version of 300 m Rifle. The program is the same: a Three positions event consisting of 3x40 shots for men and 3x20 shots for women, and a Prone position event, consisting of 60 shots. Both male events and the Three positions female event enjoy Olympic status, and so include a finale shooting of 10 additional shots with decimal notation. The Three positions final is shot from the Standing position, firing an additional 10 shots. In the Final, scored are scored out to the hundreds place so scores are able to exceed 100.

Women used to compete in Standard Rifle with more restrictions on the rifle, as opposed to men's Free Rifle. Then the women's rules were changed to Sport Rifle, which is essentially the same as Free Rifle but with a slightly lower maximum weight (6 kg instead of 8 kg). Both versions are now officially named 50 m Rifle.

Because 300 m Standard Rifle is a men-only event, women also compete in 50 m Rifle (Three positions and Prone) at the CISM Shooting World Championships.

Current world records

Three positions, Men - Qualification	1186	Rajmond Debevec	1992, Munich	Team	3508	Austria	2003, Plzen
Three positions, Men - Final	1287.9 1186+101.9	Rajmond Debevec	1992, Munich
Three positions, Junior Male	1173	Bae Sung Duk Matthew Emmons	1990, Los Angeles 2001, Milan	Team	3471	Soviet Union	1990, Zenica
Three positions, Women - Qualification (ISSF)	594	Sonja Pfeilschifter	2006, Munich	Team	1754	China China	1998, Barcelona 2002, Busan
Three positions, Women - Qualification (CISM)	589	Sonja Pfeilschifter	2005, Thun	Team	1748	Russia Germany	2005, Thun 2005, Thun
Three positions, Women - Final	698.0 594+104.0	Sonja Pfeilschifter	2006, Munich
Three positions, Junior Female	591	Wang Xian	1998, Milan	Team	1736	Slovakia	2001, Zagreb
Prone position, Men - Qualification	600	Viatcheslav Botchkarev Stevan Pletikosic Jean-Pierre Amat Christian Klees Sergei Martynov Thomas Tamas Sergei Martynov Sergei Martynov Petr Litvinchuk Wolfram Waibel Jr. Wolfram Waibel Jr. Christian Lusch Eric Uptagrafft Valerian Sauveplane Sergei Martynov Sergei Martynov	1989, Zagreb 1991, Munich 1994, Havana 1996, Atlanta 1997, Munich 1998, Barcelona 1998, Buenos Aires 2000, Munich 2003, Munich 2003, Plzen 2004, Sydney 2004, Bangkok 2005, Fort Benning 2005, Fort Benning 2005, Munich 2006, Guangzhou	Team	1793	Austria	2003, Plzen
Prone position, Men - Final	704.8 600+104.8	Christian Klees	1996, Atlanta
Prone position, Junior Male	600	Stevan Pletikosic	1991, Munich	Team	1777	Soviet Union Slovakia	1990, Zenica 1993, Brno
Prone position, Women (ISSF)	597	Marina Bobkova Olga Dovgun Olga Dovgun	1998, Barcelona 2002, Lahti 2002, Busan	Team	1786	Soviet Union	1990, Moscow
Prone position, Women (CISM)	597	Sonja Pfeilschifter	2005, Thun	Team	1786	Germany	2005, Thun
Prone position, Junior Female	598	Katja Böttinger	2000, Plzen	Team	1770	Slovakia	2000, Plzen

ISSF shooting events
300 m Rifle \| 300 m Standard Rifle \| 50 m Rifle \| 10 m Air Rifle
50 m Pistol \| 25 m Pistol \| 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol \| 25 m Center-Fire Pistol \| 25 m Standard Pistol \| 10 m Air Pistol
Trap \| Double Trap \| Skeet
50 m Running Target \| 10 m Running Target

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