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Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, Open

Date	28 August 1972 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Schießanlage, Hochbrück, München
Participants	101 from 58 countries
Format	50 metres prone. 60 shots prone. 600 possible.

The gold medal was won by North Korean Li Ho-Jun, who won the first medal ever for North Korea at the Summer Olympics. At first, it appeared that American Vic Auer had won the gold with 598 but that was based on unofficial scoring. The official scores gave Li 599 for first place. In his press conference after the victory, he stated, “I thought I was shooting at my enemies. Our Prime Minister, Kim Il-Sung, told us prior to our departure to shoot as if we were fighting our enemies. And that’s exactly what I did.” Because of the furor this remark caused, Li appeared at another press conference at which he claimed he was misunderstood. Li also finished ninth in the small-bore three position event in 1972.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Round 1 Points	Round 2 Points	Round 3 Points	Round 4 Points	Round 5 Points	Round 6 Points
1	297	Li Ho-Jun	PRK	599	99	100	100	100	100	100	Gold	WR
2	403	Vic Auer	USA	598	100	98	100	100	100	100	Silver
3	330	Nicolae Rotaru	ROU	598	100	100	100	99	100	99	Bronze
4	202	Giuseppe De Chirico	ITA	597	99	100	99	99	100	100
5	373	Jiří Vogler	TCH	597	100	100	98	99	100	100
6	309	Jaime Santiago	PUR	597	100	100	99	99	99	100
7	414	Lones Wigger	USA	597	99	99	100	100	100	99
8	175	László Hammerl	HUN	597	100	99	100	100	99	99
9	288	Andrzej Trajda	POL	597	100	100	100	100	98	99
10	7	Donald Brook	AUS	596	99	99	99	100	99	100
11	371	Rudolf Pojer	TCH	596	100	100	99	98	100	99
12	146	Werner Lippoldt	GDR	596	100	99	100	99	99	99
13	17	Wolfram Waibel, Sr.	AUT	596	100	100	100	98	100	98
14	291	Frans Lafortune	BEL	595	99	98	100	99	100	99
15	87	Henning Clausen	DEN	595	99	99	100	99	99	99
16	156	Sylvester Knipfer	FRG	595	99	100	98	100	100	98
17	172	Willy Hillen	NED	595	99	100	99	99	100	98
18	395	Vitaly Parkhimovich	URS	594	99	98	99	99	99	100
19	43	Emiliyan Vergov	BUL	594	98	100	100	97	99	100
20	238	Ernesto Montemayor, Jr.	MEX	594	100	98	99	99	98	100
21	42	Stefan Vasilev	BUL	594	99	98	99	100	99	99
22	421	Ismail Rama	ALB	594	99	99	99	100	98	99
23	225	Henry Herscovici	ISR	593	100	99	97	98	100	99
24	144	Peter Gorewski	GDR	593	98	99	99	99	99	99
25	8	Russell Dove	AUS	593	98	100	98	99	99	99
26	168	Ioannis Skarafigkas	GRE	593	98	99	100	98	99	99
27	165	Lampis Manthos	GRE	593	96	99	100	100	100	98
28	283	Eulalia Rolińska	POL	593	99	97	100	99	100	98
29	264	Mike Watt	NZL	593	99	98	100	100	99	97
30	419	Zdravko Milutinović	YUG	593	100	98	99	100	99	97
31	249	Joe Barral	MON	593	99	100	99	99	99	97
32	242	Olegario Vázquez	MEX	592	98	100	97	98	99	100
33	304	Manuel Hawayek	PUR	592	98	99	98	99	98	100
34	392	Valentin Kornev	URS	592	97	99	99	98	100	99
35	245	Mehmet Dursun	TUR	592	100	97	98	98	100	99
36	356	Christer Jansson	SWE	592	97	99	99	99	99	99
37	157	Gottfried Kustermann	FRG	592	99	99	98	99	98	99
38	5	Ricardo Rusticucci	ARG	592	99	100	97	100	97	99
39	357	Sven Johansson	SWE	592	99	100	98	99	97	99
40	253	Helge Anshushaug	NOR	592	100	99	99	98	99	97
41	322	Wu Tao-Yan	TPE	591	98	98	99	97	99	100
42	246	Mendbayaryn Jantsankhorloo	MGL	591	97	98	99	99	99	99
43	205	Walter Frescura	ITA	591	98	98	98	99	99	99
44	74	Humberto Cabrera	CUB	591	97	99	99	99	98	99
45	121	Michel Fontaine	FRA	591	98	100	99	98	98	98
46	261	Ian Ballinger	NZL	591	98	100	100	100	97	96
47	48	Alf Mayer	CAN	590	97	98	97	98	100	100
48	181	Sándor Nagy	HUN	590	98	99	98	98	97	100
49	97	Luis del Cerro	ESP	590	97	98	99	100	96	100
50	44	Gil Boa	CAN	590	95	98	99	100	99	99
51	79	Adelso Peña	CUB	590	98	99	98	98	99	98
52	22	Robert Houman	BEL	590	99	99	98	97	99	98
53	323	Ilie Codreanu	ROU	590	99	99	96	100	98	98
54	138	John Palin	GBR	590	98	98	97	100	100	97
55	136	Phil Lawrence	GBR	590	97	98	99	99	100	97
56	73	Dismus Onyiego	KEN	590	100	99	96	99	100	96
57	193	Zelig Shtroch	ISR	589	96	98	97	100	99	99
58	298	Li Yun-Hae	PRK	589	98	98	95	100	99	99
59	211	Minoru Ito	JPN	589	97	96	100	99	98	99
60	68	Choi Chung-Seok	KOR	589	99	98	98	96	100	98
61	104	Jaakko Asikainen	FIN	589	98	98	99	98	98	98
62	351	Erwin Vogt	SUI	588	98	99	99	96	98	98
63	346	Theo Ditzler	SUI	587	98	95	97	98	100	99
64	95	José Luis Calvo	ESP	587	100	96	97	99	97	98
65	54	Daya Rajasinghe Nadarajasingham	SRI	587	97	99	98	98	98	97
66	420	Beqir Kosova	ALB	587	100	96	98	98	99	96
67	12	Karl Fröschl	AUT	587	100	97	97	99	99	95
68	3	Hugo Chamberlain	CRC	586	97	96	97	98	99	99
69	258	Jens Nygård	NOR	586	99	98	97	100	94	98
70	382	Udomsak Theinthong	THA	586	96	98	98	99	98	97
71	322	Alfonso Rodríguez	COL	585	96	98	97	99	97	98
72	380	Chira Prabandhayodhin	THA	585	98	97	99	96	98	97
73	251	Pierre Boisson	MON	585	96	98	99	99	97	96
74	19	Milton Tucker	BAR	584	97	98	96	96	99	98
75	266	Gladys Baldwin	PER	584	95	99	98	96	98	98
76	85	Vagn Andersen	DEN	584	97	98	96	97	99	97
77	417	Agustín Rangel	VEN	583	98	95	95	100	97	98
78	190	Douglas Mast	ISV	583	98	97	97	96	97	98
79	220	Simon Ekeno	KEN	583	96	95	100	98	96	98
80	107	Esa Kervinen	FIN	583	97	95	98	98	98	97
81	231	Remo Sele	LIE	583	95	96	98	98	100	96
82	214	Takeshi Sugita	JPN	583	99	98	96	98	97	95
83	171	Peter Rull, Sr.	HKG	582	97	95	98	99	96	97
84	124	André Noël	FRA	581	94	98	97	100	93	99
85	233	Wong Foo Wah	MAS	581	98	98	98	95	96	96
86	28	Fernando Inchauste	BOL	580	97	97	98	94	96	98
87	230	Louis Frommelt	LIE	580	99	99	95	96	95	96
88	195	Harold Frederick	ISV	580	98	95	99	97	97	94
89	253	Jaime Callejas	COL	579	97	94	97	100	95	96
90	379	César Baptista	POR	578	98	96	94	97	94	99
91	223	Juan Antonio Valencia	ESA	576	97	93	97	97	97	95
92	338	Mário Ribeiro	POR	575	96	95	96	94	96	98
93	18	Cavour Morris	BAR	575	97	95	95	97	94	97
94	26	Eduardo Arroyo	BOL	575	96	99	94	97	93	96
95	184	Prithipal Chatterjee	IND	572	97	96	96	93	95	95
96	245	Yondonjamtsyn Batsükh	MGL	572	98	96	94	95	96	93
97	67	Lodovico Espinosa	PHI	570	92	94	96	98	96	94
98	336	José Mario Valdez	ESA	569	94	94	96	96	93	96
99	185	Roy Choudhury	IND	567	93	95	97	96	92	94
100	1	Bèto Adriana	AHO	566	93	93	96	93	96	95
101	170	Owen Phillips	BIZ	555	87	94	94	94	95	91
DNS	338	Italo Casali	SMR	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	339	Libero Casali	SMR	–	–	–	–	–	–	–