50 metre rifle prone
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50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation
International Shooting Sport Federation
The International Shooting Sport Federation is an organization that governs international shooting sports. While far from the only such organization, it is the one that is a member of the International Olympic Committee and so it is in charge of the Olympic shooting events. Not all ISSF shooting...

 event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position
Prone position
The term means to lie on bed or ground in a position with chest downwards and back upwards.-Etymology :The word "prone," meaning "naturally inclined to something, apt, liable," has been recorded in English since 1382; the meaning "lying face-down" was first recorded in 1578, but is also referred to...

 with a .22 Long Rifle
.22 Long Rifle
The .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge is a long established variety of ammunition, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common in the world today. The cartridge is often referred to simply as .22 LR and various rifles, pistols, revolvers, and even some smoothbore shotguns have...

 (5.6 mm) caliber rifle. The time limit is 75 minutes for the entire match including sighting shots, or 90 minutes if there is a need to compensate for slow scoring systems.

The sport is based on the traditional "English Match" that also consisted of 60 shots in the prone position with a .22 rifle, but had varying distances between 45.7 metres (50 yd) and 100 metres (109.4 yd).

Only the men's event is included on the Olympic program and thus includes a final for the top eight competitors, where the score zones are divided into tenths, giving up to 10.9 points for each shot. The final consists of ten shots, with a time limit of 45 seconds per shot. The competition is won by the shooter who reaches the highest aggregate score (qualification + final, maximum 709.0).

The women's event is not Olympic but included in both the ISSF and the CISM
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 World Championships. As there is no final, shooters with the same score are separated by a number of tie-breaking criteria, the first being the number of inner tens. Women's rifles may weigh up to 6.5 kilograms (14.3 lb), as opposed to 8 kilograms (17.6 lb) for men, but after the switch from standard rifles to sport rifles this is now the only difference in equipment.

World Championships, Men

This event was held in 1962-2006.
Year Place Gold Silver Bronze
1962   Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

1966   Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...

1970   Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

1974   Thun
Thun
Thun is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 42,136 inhabitants , as of 1 January 2006....

1978   Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

1982   Caracas
Caracas
Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

1986   Suhl
Suhl
- Geography :Suhl sits on the south edge of the Suhler Scholle, an upthrust granite complex that is streaked by numerous dikes. This is part of the Ruhla-Schleusingen Horst that defines the southwest side of the Thuringian Forest...

1990   Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

1994   Milan
Milan
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  Stevan Pletikosic
Stevan Pletikosic
Stevan Pletikosić is a sport shooter from Serbia. While still a junior, he won a bronze medal in Men's 50 m Rifle Prone in the 1992 Summer Olympics...

 (IOP)
1998   Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

2002   Lahti
Lahti
Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

2006   Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...


World Championships, Men Team

This event was held in 1962-2006.
Year Place Gold Silver Bronze
1962   Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

  Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....


Christer Gustafsson
Kurt Johansson
Kurt Johansson
Kurt Ivar Björn Johansson was a Swedish shooter who competed at three Summer Olympic Games. In 1948 in London he placed fourth in the Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres event. In 1960 in Rome he finished 19th in the same event and 15th in the Men's 50 metre rifle prone competition...


Jan Emil Poignant
Nils Johan Sundberg
  United States of America
Gary Anderson
Gary Anderson (sport shooter)
Gary Lee Anderson is a former Nebraska state legislator and an American sport shooter, who was the only shooter to win two Olympic gold medals in the 300 m Rifle event before it was discontinued...


James Enoch Hill
James Enoch Hill
James Enoch Hill is a sports shooter and Olympic medalist for the United States. He won a silver medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.-References:...


Presley Kendall
Verle Franklin Jun. Wright
  Federal Republic of Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....


Rudolf Bortz
Peter Kohnke
Peter Kohnke
Peter Kohnke was a sports shooter and Olympic Champion for Germany. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.-References:...


Karl Wenk
Klaus Zaehringer
1966   Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...

  United States of America
Donald Adams
David Boyd
Bill Krilling
Lones Wigger
Lones Wigger
Lones Wesley Wigger, Jr. was an American military officer who was a member of the United States Olympic team on four occasions.He was born in Great Falls, Montana....

  Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...


Janusz Kalmus
Stanislaw Marucha
Jerzy Nowicki
Andrzej Trajda
  Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....


Vassily Borisov
Alexander Gerasimenok
Yuri Kudryashov
Marat Niyazov
1970   Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

  Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Giuseppe de Chirico
Franco Donna
Walter Frescura
Luigi Testarmata
  Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...


Marin Ferecatu
Stefan Kaban
Gheorghe Vasilescu
Stefan Tamas
  Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....


Dusan Epifanic
Branislav Loncar
Zdravko Milutinovic
Miroslav Sipek
1974   Thun
Thun
Thun is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 42,136 inhabitants , as of 1 January 2006....

  Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...


Jouko Ilmari Hietalahti
Pauli Aapeli Janhonen
Esa Einari Kervinen
Leif Lajunen
  United States of America
Victor Auer
Victor Auer
Victor Lee "Vic" Auer is a sports shooter and Olympic medalist for the United States. He won a silver medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.-References:...


Presley Kendall
Margaret Murdock
Margaret Murdock
Margaret Thompson Murdock is an American shooter and United States Army officer. She won a varsity letter at Kansas State by competing on the men’s rifle team. Furthermore, she was the 1966 World Champion in Women's Standard Rifle. She was also the first woman on the U.S. Olympic shooting team and...


Lones Wigger
Lones Wigger
Lones Wesley Wigger, Jr. was an American military officer who was a member of the United States Olympic team on four occasions.He was born in Great Falls, Montana....

  Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...


Karel Bulan
Petr Kovarik
Karel Skyba
Jiri Vogler
1978   Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

  United States of America
Lanny Bassham
Lanny Bassham
Lanny Robert Bassham is an American sports shooter who competed and won a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and also obtained silver in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1969, where he had participated in the ROTC program...


John Comley
Boyd Goldsby
Lones Wigger
Lones Wigger
Lones Wesley Wigger, Jr. was an American military officer who was a member of the United States Olympic team on four occasions.He was born in Great Falls, Montana....

  Federal Republic of Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....


Kurt Hillenbrand
Ulrich Lind
Karlheinz Smieszek
Karlheinz Smieszek
Karlheinz Smieszek is a sports shooter and Olympic Champion for West Germany. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.-References:...


Werner Seibold
  Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....


Hans Braem
Pierre Alain Dufaux
Anton Mueller
Robert Weilenmann
1982   Caracas
Caracas
Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

  Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....


Victor Daniltchenko
Gennadi Lushikov
Alexander Mitrofanov
Viktor Vlasov
  Federal Republic of Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....


Hubert Bichler
Peter Heinz
Ulrich Lind
Werner Seibold
  Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...


Albert Deuring
Lothar Heinrich
Hannes Rainer
Wolfram Sen. Waibel
1986   Suhl
Suhl
- Geography :Suhl sits on the south edge of the Suhler Scholle, an upthrust granite complex that is streaked by numerous dikes. This is part of the Ruhla-Schleusingen Horst that defines the southwest side of the Thuringian Forest...

  Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...


Donald Brook
Warren Potent
Warren Potent
Warren James Potent is an Australian sport shooter. He won the bronze medal in the 50 metre rifle prone at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He won two of the four competitions during the 2007 World Cup season...


Alan Smith
  German Democratic Republic
German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...


Bernd Hartstein
Mario Gonsierowski
Hellfried Heilfort
  Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....


Christian Heller
Stefan Loevbom
Hans Strand
1990   Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

  Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....


Viatcheslav Botchkarev
Viatcheslav Botchkarev
Viatcheslav Borisovich Botchkarev is a former Soviet sport shooter.He was born in Samara, Russia, and shares the world record in the 50 meter rifle prone competition.-Current world record in 50 m rifle prone :-External links:**...


Gennadi Lushikov
Sergei Martynov
Sergei Martynov (sport shooter)
Sergei Martynov is a Belarusian 50 m Rifle shooter, originally from Russia....

  Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...


Jaromir Bures
Vaclav Becvar
Miroslav Varga
Miroslav Varga
Miroslav Varga is a sports shooter and Olympic Champion for Czechoslovakia. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul....

  Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....


Rajmond Debevec
Rajmond Debevec
Rajmond Debevec was born in Postojna, Slovenia, a part of the former Yugoslavia, on March 29, 1963. He became involved in shooting sports in 1971 and became a member of Junior national team in 1979. He won his first medal in 1980 by participating in Junior European Championship with air rifle...


Goran Maksimovic
Goran Maksimović
Goran Maksimović is a sports shooter and Olympic Champion for Yugoslavia. He won a gold medal in the 10 metre air rifle event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. At the 1996 and 2000 Olympics he competed for Serbia and Montenegro....


Nemanja Mirosavljev
Nemanja Mirosavljev
Nemanja Mirosavljev is a Serbian sport shooter...

1994   Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

  Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...


Artur Ayvazyan
Oleg Dementyev
Andriy Sheykin
  France
France
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Jean-Pierre Amat
Jean-Pierre Amat
Jean-Pierre Amat is a French sports shooter who competed and won a gold meal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the small bore rifle, three positions.-Current world record in 50 m rifle prone :-References:...


Michel Bury
Dominique Maquin
  Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...


Viatcheslav Botchkarev
Viatcheslav Botchkarev
Viatcheslav Borisovich Botchkarev is a former Soviet sport shooter.He was born in Samara, Russia, and shares the world record in the 50 meter rifle prone competition.-Current world record in 50 m rifle prone :-External links:**...


Artem Khadjibekov
Artem Khadjibekov
Artem Aleksandrovich Khadjibekov is a Russian sport shooter, specializing in the rifles event. He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games and silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in the 10 metre air rifle event.He also competed at 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.-Olympic...


Sergei Schedrin
1998   Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

  United States of America
Thomas Tamas
Thomas Tamas
Thomas A. "Tom" Tamas is an American sport shooter.He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He competed for the United States in the 2000 Summer Olympics, in the Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50, coming in tied for 13th. He shares the world record in the 50 meter rifle prone competition.-Current world...


Glenn Dubis
Lance Hopper
  Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...


Peter Bubernik
Miroslav Svorada
Jozef Gönci
Jozef Gönci
Jozef Gönci is a Slovak sport shooter, specialising in the 50 m Rifle and 10 m Air Rifle. Gönci won independent Slovakia's first ever Olympic Medal, a bronze in Atlanta in 1996. He won another bronze medal eight years later at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.- External links :*...

  Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Roberto Vitobello
Marco de Nicolo
Roberto Facheris
2002   Lahti
Lahti
Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

  Norway
Norway
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Espen Berg-Knutsen
Vebjoern Berg
Harald Stenvaag
Harald Stenvaag
Harald Stenvaag is a Norwegian rifle shooter who started competing internationally at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in Switzerland in 1974. He has represented Norway in the Summer Olympics 6 times, and has two Olympic medals...

  Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...


Oleg Mikhailov
Artur Ayvazyan
Jury Sukhorukov
Jury Sukhorukov
Jury Sukhorukov is an Olympic shooter from Ukraine. He won a silver medal in the Men's 50 metre rifle three positions event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-References:...

  Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...


Konstantin Prikhodtchenko
Sergei Kovalenko
Artem Khadjibekov
Artem Khadjibekov
Artem Aleksandrovich Khadjibekov is a Russian sport shooter, specializing in the rifles event. He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games and silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in the 10 metre air rifle event.He also competed at 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.-Olympic...

2006   Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

  United States of America
Michael Mcphail
Eric Uptagrafft
Eric Uptagrafft
Eric Allan Uptagrafft is an American sport shooter.He was born in Spokane, Washington, and lives in Firestone, Colorado. He competed for the United States in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50, coming in tied for 30th...


Matthew Emmons
Matthew Emmons
Matthew D. Emmons is an American sport shooter.-Careers:Emmons started out as a successful junior and has been a holder of the junior world record in 50 metre rifle three positions...

  Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...


Mario Knoegler
Christian Planer
Alexander Uhl
  Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...


Peter Sidi
Tibor Gabor Mlinkovics
Szabolcs Herczegh

World Championships, Women

This event was held in 1966-2006.
Year Place Gold Silver Bronze
1966   Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...

1970   Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

1974   Thun
Thun
Thun is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 42,136 inhabitants , as of 1 January 2006....

1978   Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

1982   Caracas
Caracas
Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

1986   Suhl
Suhl
- Geography :Suhl sits on the south edge of the Suhler Scholle, an upthrust granite complex that is streaked by numerous dikes. This is part of the Ruhla-Schleusingen Horst that defines the southwest side of the Thuringian Forest...

1990   Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

1994   Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

1998   Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

2002   Lahti
Lahti
Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

2006   Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

2010   Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...


World Championships, Women Team

This event was held in 1966-2006.
Year Place Gold Silver Bronze
1966   Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...

  Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...


Barbara Kopyt
Bozena Wzietek
Eulalia Zakrzewska
  United States of America
Marianne Jensen
Patricia Kinsella
Margaret Thompson
  Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...


Oszkarne Kellner
Lajosne Kisgyorgy
Ferencne Kun
1970   Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

  Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....


Magdalena Herold
Mirjana Masic
Desanka Perovic
  Federal Republic of Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....


Ingrid Kappes
Gerlinde Popp
Anneliese Rhomberg
  Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....


Tamara Cherkasova
Lucia Fagereva
Tatiana Ratnikova
1974   Thun
Thun
Thun is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 42,136 inhabitants , as of 1 January 2006....

  United States of America
Schuyler Helbing
Margaret Murdock
Margaret Murdock
Margaret Thompson Murdock is an American shooter and United States Army officer. She won a varsity letter at Kansas State by competing on the men’s rifle team. Furthermore, she was the 1966 World Champion in Women's Standard Rifle. She was also the first woman on the U.S. Olympic shooting team and...


Diana Zimmermann
  Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....


Mirjana Masic
Desanka Pesut
Valeria Sabatka
  Sweden
Sweden
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Margareta Gustafsson
Christina Gustafsson
Brita Raning
1978   Seoul
Seoul
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  United States of America
Karen Monez
Wanda Oliver
Sue Ann Sandusky
  France
France
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Yvette Courault
Dominique Esnault
Elisabeth Lesou
  Australia
Australia
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Tricia van Nus
Sylvia Muehlberg
Tracey Smith
1982   Caracas
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  Australia
Australia
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Yvonne Gowland
Yvonne Hill
Sylvia Muehlberg
  Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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Svetlana Komaristova
Lessia Leskiv
Tatiana Sytcheva
  France
France
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Yvette Courault
Dominique Esnault
Isabelle Heberle
1986   Suhl
Suhl
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  Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
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Vesna Domazet
Mirjana Jovovic
Biserka Vrbek
  Bulgaria
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Petja Doudekova
Vesela Letcheva
Nonka Matova
Nonka Matova
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  Sweden
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Anette Andersson
Margareta Gustafsson
Christina Gustafsson
1990   Moscow
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  Soviet Union
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Valentina Cherkasova
Lessia Leskiv
Iryna Shylava
  Bulgaria
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Vesela Letcheva
Nonka Matova
Nonka Matova
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Milena Spasova
  United States of America
Tammie Deangles
Launi Meili
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Kristen Peterson
1994   Milan
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  Russia
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Valentina Cherkasova
Irina Gerasimenok
Irina Gerasimenok
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Anna Maloukhina
  Norway
Norway
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Lindy Hansen
Grethe Martinsen
Hanne Vataker
  Ukraine
Ukraine
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Lessia Leskiv
Tatiana Nesterova
Olga Cheremska
1998   Barcelona
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  Russia
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Marina Bobkova
Irina Gerasimenok
Irina Gerasimenok
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Tatiana Goldobina
Tatiana Goldobina
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  People's Republic of China
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Xian Wang
Yinghui Zhao
Hong Shan
  Ukraine
Ukraine
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Lessia Leskiv
Olga Larina
Olena Davydova
2002   Lahti
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  Finland
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Viivi Villa
Jenni Ranta
Helena Juppala
  Denmark
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Pia Jakobsen
Anni Bissoe
Charlotte Jakobsen
  Germany
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Britta Grossecappenberg
Petra Horneber
Sonja Pfeilschifter
Sonja Pfeilschifter
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2006   Zagreb
Zagreb
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  Germany
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Sonja Pfeilschifter
Sonja Pfeilschifter
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Dorothee Bauer
Claudia Keck
  Kazakhstan
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Galina Korchma
Olga Dovgun
Varvara Kovalenko
  Ukraine
Ukraine
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Natallia Kalnysh
Olena Davydova
Lessia Leskiv

World Championships, total medals

1  United States 11 7 6 24
2  Soviet Union 6 3 5 14
3  Kingdom of Yugoslavia 3 2 2 7
4  Finland 3 2 0 5
5  Russia 3 0 3 6
6  Poland 2 2 1 5
7  Australia 2 1 1 4
7  Kazakhstan 2 1 1 4
9  Hungary 2 0 3 5
10  Germany 2 0 1 3
11  Norway 1 4 1 6
12  West Germany 1 3 3 7
13  Mainland China 1 3 0 4
14  Ukraine 1 2 4 7
15  Sweden 1 1 4 6
16  Czechoslovakia 1 1 1 3
17  South Africa 1 1 0 2
18  Italy 1 0 2 3
19  Belarus 1 0 0 1
19  United Kingdom 1 0 0 1
21  Early Modern France 0 3 2 5
22  Kingdom of Bulgaria 0 3 1 4
23  Austria 0 1 2 3
24  Kingdom of Romania 0 1 1 2
25  Canada 0 1 0 1
25  Denmark 0 1 0 1
25  German Democratic Republic 0 1 0 1
25  Slovakia 0 1 0 1
25  Slovenia 0 1 0 1
30  Spain 0 0 1 1
30  Switzerland 0 0 1 1
Total 46 46 46 138

Current world records

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Current world records in 50 metre rifle prone
Men
Junior Men
Women (ISSF)
Women (CISM)
Junior Women
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