Olympedia – Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, Men

Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, Men

Date	5 December 1956 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Merrett Rifle Range, Williamstown, Victoria
Participants	44 from 25 countries
Format	50 metres prone. 60 shots prone. 600 possible.

Date

5 December 1956 — 9:00

Status

Olympic

Location

Merrett Rifle Range, Williamstown, Victoria

Participants

44 from 25 countries

Format

50 metres prone. 60 shots prone. 600 possible.

This event was won by Canada’s Gerry Ouellette. Ouellette was a corporal in the Canadian Reserve Army and also worked full-time as a tool designer at the Ford plant in Windsor, Ontario. One of his main competitors was his teammate, Gil Boa, who had won the 1954 World Championships in this event. In practice in Melbourne, Ouellette was unhappy with his rifle, and he and Boa decided to share the same rifle. This meant that they had to shoot very quickly as there was a time limit to fire the required 60 rounds. Boa shot first and scored 598, dropping a point in his first and last strings. He was bettered by Vasily Borisov (URS), who recorded a 599. With little time to spare, Ouellette fired off 60 shots, almost in rapid-fire fashion, and scored a perfect 600. At first considered a world record, the course was re-measured and found to be 1.5 metres short of 50 metres, thus disqualifying the mark as a record. Ouellette would compete in the Olympics again, but not until 1968. The Americans did not fare well, but noted that nearly everyone in the event used the new U.S. ammunition that had just been developed, Western Supermatch Mark III.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Round 1 Points	Round 2 Points	Round 3 Points	Round 4 Points	Round 5 Points	Round 6 Points
1	–	Gerry Ouellette	CAN	600	100	100	100	100	100	100	Gold	1
2	–	Vasily Borisov	URS	599	100	100	100	100	100	99	Silver
3	–	Gil Boa	CAN	598	99	100	100	100	100	99	Bronze
4	–	Otakar Hořínek	TCH	598	100	100	100	98	100	100
5	–	Iosif Sîrbu	ROU	598	100	100	100	98	100	100
6	–	Sándor Krebs	HUN	598	100	100	100	100	99	99
7	–	Erling Kongshaug	NOR	598	100	100	100	99	99	100
8	–	Severino Moreira	BRA	597	99	99	100	100	100	99
9	–	Constantin Antonescu	ROU	596	100	100	98	99	100	99
10	–	Don Tolhurst	AUS	596	100	98	100	99	99	100
11	–	Rudi Sigl	GER	596	100	100	100	99	99	98
12	–	John Sundberg	SWE	596	100	99	100	99	100	98
13	–	Anker Hagen	NOR	596	99	98	100	100	99	100
14	–	Anders Kvissberg	SWE	596	99	100	100	99	98	100
15	–	Vilho Ylönen	FIN	596	100	100	98	100	99	99
16	–	Zlatko Mašek	YUG	595	99	100	99	97	100	100
17	–	Johannes Human	RSA	595	99	100	98	98	100	100
18	–	Uffe Schultz Larsen	DEN	595	97	100	100	99	100	99
19	–	Wu Tao-Yan	TPE	595	98	99	99	99	100	100
20	–	Milton Sobocinski	BRA	594	98	99	99	100	99	99
21	–	Óscar Cáceres	PER	594	97	98	99	100	100	100
22	–	Norman Rule	AUS	594	99	99	99	99	100	98
23	–	César Jayme	PHI	594	99	98	99	99	99	100
24	–	Yukio Inokuma	JPN	594	100	98	99	99	99	99
25	–	Enrique Lucca	VEN	594	97	100	100	98	99	100
26	–	Steffen Cranmer	GBR	593	98	98	98	99	100	100
27	–	Albert Sigl	GER	593	97	99	100	99	99	99
28	–	Luis Coquis	PER	593	99	99	98	97	100	100
29	–	Anatoly Bogdanov	URS	593	99	98	99	100	99	98
30	–	Robin Lavine	RSA	593	98	100	100	97	99	99
31	–	Art Jackson	USA	593	97	100	99	99	99	99
32	–	Jorma Taitto	FIN	592	100	100	99	96	97	100
33	–	Juan Llabot	VEN	592	98	98	100	99	98	99
34	–	Hernando Castelo	PHI	592	97	99	98	100	98	100
35	–	Jacques Mazoyer	FRA	591	97	97	99	98	100	100
36	–	Verle Wright, Jr.	USA	590	99	98	97	98	98	100
37	–	Ole Hviid Jensen	DEN	590	99	95	99	98	99	100
38	–	Frederick Hopkinson	GBR	590	97	98	98	100	99	98
39	–	Maurice Racca	FRA	589	97	98	97	99	100	98
40	–	Roy Congreve	KEN	587	97	97	99	98	99	97
41	–	Charles Trotter	KEN	586	98	97	98	97	97	99
42	–	Frans Lafortune	BEL	585	99	100	98	92	96	100
43	–	Tomokazu Maruyama	JPN	584	97	96	98	97	98	98
44	–	Zafar Ahmed Muhammad	PAK	582	98	99	96	97	96	96

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