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Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, Men

Date	29 July 1952 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Malmin Ampumarata, Malmi, Helsinki
Participants	58 from 32 countries
Format	50 metres prone. 40 shots, in four series of 10. 400 possible.

Boris Andreyev (URS) and Iosif Sîrbu (ROM) both equaled the world record in the English Match by shooting possibles of 400. Ties were broken by counting the number of hits in the center ring, and Sîrbu won that by 33-28. The perfect world record had been set at the 1939 World Championships in Luzern, Switzerland, by Finland’s Toivo Mänttäri.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Center Hits	Round 1 Points	Round 2 Points	Round 3 Points	Round 4 Points
1	–	Iosif Sîrbu	ROU	400	33	100	100	100	100	Gold	=WR
2	–	Boris Andreyev	URS	400	28	100	100	100	100	Silver	=WR
3	–	Art Jackson	USA	399	28	100	100	99	100	Bronze
4	–	Gil Boa	CAN	399	28	100	100	100	99
5	–	Erich Spörer	GER	399	25	99	100	100	100
6	–	Otto Horber	SUI	398	29	100	100	100	98
7	–	Kullervo Leskinen	FIN	398	28	99	99	100	100
8	–	Severino Moreira	BRA	398	22	100	99	100	99
9	–	Walther Fröstell	SWE	397	27	100	99	100	98
10	–	Ernst Huber	SUI	397	25	99	99	99	100
11	–	Vilho Ylönen	FIN	397	24	100	100	99	98
12	–	Charles Hyde	GBR	397	24	99	99	100	99
13	–	Martin Gison	PHI	397	24	100	97	100	100
14	–	Erling Kongshaug	NOR	397	23	97	100	100	100
15	–	César Jayme	PHI	397	19	99	99	99	100
16	–	Uno Berg	SWE	396	26	100	100	98	98
17	–	Yukio Inokuma	JPN	396	26	100	98	99	99
18	–	Siegfried Gurschler	AUT	396	25	99	100	99	98
19	–	Steffen Cranmer	GBR	396	25	100	98	100	98
20	–	Petre Cișmigiu	ROU	396	24	99	99	98	100
21	–	Emmett Swanson	USA	396	23	99	99	99	99
22	–	Jacques Mazoyer	FRA	396	22	98	100	98	100
23	–	Wilhelm Sachsenmaier	AUT	396	21	99	98	99	100
24	–	Pyotr Avilov	URS	395	21	99	98	99	99
25	–	Juan Bizama	CHI	395	20	97	99	99	100
26	–	Edson Warner	CAN	394	23	99	97	99	99
27	–	Imre Ágoston	HUN	394	20	99	96	99	100
28	–	Uffe Schultz Larsen	DEN	394	19	100	97	99	98
29	–	Harihar Banerjee	IND	394	19	97	100	99	98
30	–	José Gómez	GUA	394	18	99	98	99	98
31	–	Albert Sigl	GER	394	17	98	100	100	96
32	–	Mauritz Amundsen	NOR	394	17	98	100	99	97
33	–	Paul Konsler	FRA	393	23	97	98	100	98
34	–	William Murless	RSA	393	18	98	99	96	100
35	–	Humberto Briceño	VEN	393	16	97	98	99	99
36	–	Antoine Shousha	EGY	393	15	97	99	100	97
37	–	Luís Howorth	POR	393	13	98	98	97	100
38	–	Jørgen Hare	DEN	392	16	99	98	98	97
39	–	Souren Chowdhury	IND	391	17	96	98	98	99
40	–	Ludwig Gräf	SAA	391	10	95	98	98	100
41	–	Zvi Pinkas	ISR	388	20	99	97	98	94
42	–	Frans Lafortune	BEL	388	16	95	96	99	98
43	–	Nemanja Marković	YUG	387	19	97	93	99	98
44	–	Jacques Lafortune	BEL	387	17	96	97	98	96
45	–	Alfredo Mury	GUA	387	15	96	97	97	97
46	–	Pierre Marsan	MON	387	11	97	98	97	95
47	–	Zlatko Mašek	YUG	386	14	98	97	94	97
48	–	Harvey Villela	BRA	385	13	97	96	97	95
49	–	Athanasios Aravositas	GRE	384	19	92	98	99	95
50	–	Abdullah Jaroudi, Sr.	LBN	384	19	96	96	96	96
51	–	Roger Abel	MON	384	16	95	97	94	98
52	–	Hans Eschenbrenner	SAA	384	11	94	97	98	95
53	–	Ahmed Hamdy	EGY	383	16	98	95	95	95
54	–	János Dosztály	HUN	382	9	93	93	99	97
55	–	Joaquim Sampaio	POR	381	8	98	95	93	95
56	–	Alexander Eliraz	ISR	381	6	95	93	97	96
57	–	Rafael Arnal	VEN	380	14	95	94	93	98
58	–	Jan Azam	PAK	366	9	90	86	94	96