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Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, Open

Date	19 July 1976 — 9:30
Status	Olympic
Location	Stand de tir olympique, L'Acadie, Québec, CAN
Participants	78 from 45 countries
Format	50 metres prone. 60 shots prone. 600 possible.

The English match was shot on a windy day which frustrated many of the shooters. This enabled Germany’s Karlheinz Smieszek to win with 599, although he had not previously won a major title. This would also be the only Olympic event in which he ever competed.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Round 1 Points	Round 2 Points	Round 3 Points	Round 4 Points	Round 5 Points	Round 6 Points
1	149	Karlheinz Smieszek	FRG	599	99	100	100	100	100	100	Gold	=WR
2	146	Ulrich Lind	FRG	597	100	99	99	100	99	100	Silver
3	376	Gennady Lushchikov	URS	595	100	99	99	97	100	100	Bronze
4	330	Toni Müller	SUI	595	100	100	99	99	99	98
5	209	Walter Frescura	ITA	594	97	100	99	99	100	99
6	64	Arne Sorensen	CAN	593	100	100	98	95	100	100
7	81	Henning Clausen	DEN	593	99	99	99	97	100	99
8	400	Desanka Pešut	YUG	592	100	98	98	98	99	99
9	36	Durval Guimarães	BRA	592	99	99	99	98	98	99
10	252	Olegario Vázquez	MEX	592	100	99	99	98	97	99
11	256	Mendbayaryn Jantsankhorloo	MGL	592	100	98	100	99	98	97
=12	198	Micha Kaufman	ISR	591	98	98	98	99	99	99
=12	48	Stefan Krastev	BUL	591	95	99	100	99	98	100
=12	18	Gerhard Krimbacher	AUT	591	99	99	99	99	97	98
=12	264	Terje Melbye Hansen	NOR	591	99	100	97	98	98	99
=12	377	Boris Melnik	URS	591	98	99	98	99	99	98
=12	305	Ralph Rodríguez	PUR	591	99	99	98	100	98	97
=12	79	Miguel Valdés	CUB	591	99	100	99	99	98	96
=12	352	Jiří Vogler	TCH	591	98	98	97	98	100	100
=20	267	Ian Ballinger	NZL	590	100	98	100	94	98	100
=20	343	Karel Bulan	TCH	590	100	97	97	99	98	99
=20	124	Anthony Greenfield	GBR	590	100	98	97	98	99	98
=20	29	Odette Meuter	BEL	590	98	98	99	96	99	100
=20	185	Lajos Papp	HUN	590	97	98	99	99	99	98
=20	113	Jacques Pichon	FRA	590	98	98	97	99	99	99
=20	391	David Ross	USA	590	99	95	97	100	99	100
=20	24	Wolfram Waibel, Sr.	AUT	590	99	98	98	99	99	97
=28	55	Hans Adlhoch	CAN	589	100	97	98	98	98	98
=28	285	Andrzej Trajda	POL	589	98	95	98	99	99	100
=28	317	Gheorghe Vasilescu	ROU	589	96	97	99	99	98	100
=31	263	Helge Anshushaug	NOR	588	99	99	97	100	96	97
=31	383	Vic Auer	USA	588	98	96	99	99	98	98
=31	217	Sachio Hosokawa	JPN	588	97	97	98	98	98	100
=31	336	Sven Johansson	SWE	588	97	96	98	99	100	98
=31	28	Frans Lafortune	BEL	588	99	98	99	99	96	97
=31	402	Miroslav Šipek	YUG	588	98	97	98	98	99	98
=37	181	László Hammerl	HUN	587	97	98	99	97	100	96
=37	109	Gilbert Emptaz	FRA	587	97	98	100	98	97	97
=37	128	Peter Gorewski	GDR	587	98	98	98	95	100	98
=37	277	Stanisław Marucha	POL	587	99	98	95	99	98	98
=41	9	Donald Brook	AUS	586	99	96	97	99	97	98
=41	92	Luis del Cerro	ESP	586	96	99	98	98	96	99
=41	97	Jouko Hietalahti	FIN	586	98	97	97	97	99	98
=41	357	Wongsak Malaipun	THA	586	96	97	98	99	98	98
=41	153	Lampis Manthos	GRE	586	98	96	98	99	97	98
=41	174	Peter Rull, Sr.	HKG	586	95	100	98	98	97	98
=47	366	Mehmet Dursun	TUR	585	95	98	100	97	98	97
=47	301	Manuel Hawayek	PUR	585	99	97	96	96	98	99
=47	154	Ioannis Skarafigkas	GRE	585	98	99	95	99	95	99
=47	342	Stefan Thynell	SWE	585	98	95	96	99	98	99
=51	254	Sangidorjiin Adilbish	MGL	584	99	97	100	95	96	97
=51	115	Alister Allan	GBR	584	98	94	99	100	96	97
=51	75	José González	CUB	584	96	98	97	98	97	98
=51	11	Don Gowland	AUS	584	96	99	98	98	97	96
=51	131	Marlies Kanthak	GDR	584	97	98	99	97	95	98
=51	94	José María Pigrau	ESP	584	96	96	98	97	100	97
=57	233	Choi Chung-Seok	KOR	583	95	95	99	96	99	99
=57	100	Jaakko Minkkinen	FIN	583	98	95	96	97	99	98
=57	6	Ricardo Rusticucci	ARG	583	96	97	97	98	99	96
=60	258	Joe Barral	MON	582	97	100	96	97	98	94
=60	34	Waldemar Cappucci	BRA	582	96	96	98	97	97	98
=60	206	Giuseppe De Chirico	ITA	582	98	98	97	95	97	97
=60	52	Anka Pelova	BUL	582	96	95	98	97	97	99
=64	259	Pierre Boisson	MON	581	93	99	97	100	96	96
=64	176	Willy Hillen	NED	581	97	97	99	97	98	93
=64	289	Kim Gyong-Ho	PRK	581	97	96	99	96	95	98
=64	236	Lee Gyun	KOR	581	93	96	99	96	98	99
=68	73	Hugo Chamberlain	CRC	580	97	98	95	96	98	96
=68	223	Kaoru Matsuo	JPN	580	97	96	95	97	99	96
=68	315	Nicolae Rotaru	ROU	580	97	95	96	98	97	97
71	171	Reginaldo Dos Remédios	HKG	579	97	95	96	97	100	94
72	85	Hasse Persson	DEN	578	96	96	95	98	95	98
73	360	Suthorn Parmkerd	THA	574	93	97	97	93	98	96
=74	199	Harold Frederick	ISV	571	94	99	95	94	93	96
=74	200	Peter Hogan	ISV	571	95	95	93	95	96	97
76	322	Alfredo Pelliccioni	SMR	565	95	94	95	93	96	92
77	365	John Fong Yew	TTO	564	85	96	94	96	97	96
78	30	Owen Phillips	BIZ	544	93	94	85	92	90	90
DNS	164	Rémy John-Thomas	HAI	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	166	Gabriel Painson	HAI	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	231	Simon Nakomol	KEN	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	232	Patrick Neylan	KEN	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	246	Antonio Aguilar	MEX	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	308	Ku Ping-Chi	TPE	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	310	Wu Tao-Yan	TPE	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	331	Erwin Vogt	SUI	–	–	–	–	–	–	–