Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres, Men

One of the favourites was the 2016 world number one, American Matt Emmons, who was the 2004 Olympic champion in the rifle (prone) event, but he was a victim of the qualification round and was not amongst the eight finallists. Russian Sergey Kamenskiy won the qualification round with 1,184 points, only two points behind the world record and was in the lead in the final going into his final shot, but could only produce a 8.3 hit and was overtaken by Italy’s Niccolo Campriani, the defending champion who had won gold in the air rifle event six days earlier. Campriani became the only shooter with two gold medals in the Rio Games. The young Frenchman Alexis Raynaud secured the bronze medal, just five days before his 22nd birthday.