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