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Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed 300 metre free rifle, three positions

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The mixed 300 m rifle three positions was an event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. This was the final time that free rifle was contested at the Olympics. Soviet shooter Boris Melnik was leading 1155 to 1154 when the unofficial scores were posted, but the official scoring brought American Lones Wigger up to 1155; Wigger won the tie breaker with a better score on the last string fired kneeling, 97, versus 96 for Melnik.[1] It was the third consecutive victory in the event for the United States; the Soviet Union had taken at least one medal each of the six times it competed before the event was discontinued after 1972. Lajos Papp of Hungary took bronze.

Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – 300 metre free rifle
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Romanian stamp commemorating shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics
VenueSchießanlage
DateSeptember 2, 1972
Competitors33 from 20 nations
Winning score1155
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lones Wigger
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Boris Melnik
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lajos Papp
 Hungary
← 1968

Background

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This was the 11th appearance of the 300 metre three-positions rifle event, which was held 11 times between 1900 and 1972.[2][3] Three of the top 10 shooters from 1964 returned: silver medalist Valentin Kornev of the Soviet Union, eighth-place finisher Petre Șandor of Romania, and tenth-place finisher Lajos Papp of Hungary. Kornev was the reigning (1970) world champion.[4]

Cuba, North Korea, Paraguay, and West Germany each made its debut in the event. Finland, Sweden, and the United States each made their 10th appearance, tied for most of all nations.

Competition format

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The competition had each shooter fire 120 shots, 40 shots in each position (prone, standing, and kneeling). Shots were fired in series of 10. The target was 1 metre in diameter, with 10 scoring rings; targets were set at a distance of 300 metres. Thus, the maximum score possible was 1200 points. Any rifle could be used. All ties were broken by the best score on the final string of kneeling, if still tied the best score on the final string of standing, followed by prone.[4]

Records

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Prior to the competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record   Gary Anderson (USA) 1157 Mexico City, Mexico 23 October 1968
Olympic record   Gary Anderson (USA) 1157 Mexico City, Mexico 23 October 1968

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

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All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 2 September 1972 9:00 Final

Results

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Rank Shooter Nation Position Series Total Score
1 2 3 4
  Lones Wigger   United States Prone 97 99 98 100 394 1155
Standing 95 96 93 95 379
Kneeling 95 95 95 97 382
  Boris Melnik   Soviet Union Prone 98 98 99 99 394 1155
Standing 93 94 95 92 374
Kneeling 93 99 99 96 387
  Lajos Papp   Hungary Prone 100 99 99 96 394 1149
Standing 90 92 89 93 364
Kneeling 99 94 99 99 391
4 Uto Wunderlich   East Germany Prone 99 98 97 99 393 1149
Standing 91 93 90 94 368
Kneeling 97 97 96 98 388
5 Karel Bulan   Czechoslovakia Prone 98 99 99 98 394 1146
Standing 92 94 92 92 370
Kneeling 94 96 94 98 382
6 Jaakko Minkkinen   Finland Prone 100 99 100 97 396 1146
Standing 89 91 96 88 364
Kneeling 96 98 98 94 386
7 Lanny Bassham   United States Prone 98 96 97 98 389 1144
Standing 92 94 89 93 368
Kneeling 96 96 97 98 387
8 Valentin Kornev   Soviet Union Prone 97 97 98 99 391 1143
Standing 89 92 93 91 365
Kneeling 96 99 96 96 387
9 Werner Lippoldt   East Germany Prone 98 97 97 95 387 1141
Standing 93 91 91 90 365
Kneeling 95 98 97 99 389
10 Martin Truttmann   Switzerland Prone 100 98 95 97 390 1141
Standing 95 90 92 89 366
Kneeling 99 98 95 93 385
11 Béla Nagy   Hungary Prone 100 97 99 98 394 1140
Standing 93 84 89 92 358
Kneeling 99 95 98 96 388
12 Malcolm Cooper   Great Britain Prone 97 99 99 96 391 1139
Standing 91 91 93 86 361
Kneeling 97 97 97 96 387
13 Miguel Valdes   Cuba Prone 97 100 100 97 394 1139
Standing 90 89 96 94 369
Kneeling 94 97 91 94 376
14 Rudolf Pojer   Czechoslovakia Prone 100 99 99 99 397 1138
Standing 89 90 87 90 356
Kneeling 94 97 96 98 385
15 Li Yun-hae   North Korea Prone 99 98 99 95 391 1137
Standing 89 93 95 96 373
Kneeling 94 91 95 93 373
16 Andrzej Sieledcow   Poland Prone 97 95 97 97 386 1135
Standing 90 92 92 95 369
Kneeling 93 89 99 99 380
17 Ri Ho-jun   North Korea Prone 98 99 98 97 392 1133
Standing 90 90 91 90 361
Kneeling 96 92 96 96 380
18 Helge Anshushaug   Norway Prone 96 98 98 95 387 1132
Standing 85 92 94 86 357
Kneeling 99 95 97 97 388
19 Eugeniusz Pędzisz   Poland Prone 98 100 97 97 392 1131
Standing 92 87 94 90 363
Kneeling 92 94 94 96 376
20 Dirk Fudickar   West Germany Prone 96 96 98 98 388 1131
Standing 90 88 92 92 362
Kneeling 95 98 95 93 381
21 Petre Șandor   Romania Prone 95 97 96 97 385 1127
Standing 94 89 85 91 359
Kneeling 93 98 97 95 383
22 Andreas Beyeler   Switzerland Prone 99 95 94 97 385 1126
Standing 85 93 90 91 359
Kneeling 93 95 97 97 382
23 Sven Johansson   Sweden Prone 96 99 98 96 389 1126
Standing 86 90 92 91 359
Kneeling 98 94 91 95 378
24 Vagn Andersen   Denmark Prone 99 98 98 98 393 1125
Standing 88 88 92 93 361
Kneeling 93 91 93 94 371
25 Osmo Ala-Honkola   Finland Prone 97 99 97 98 391 1121
Standing 85 88 94 90 357
Kneeling 94 97 91 91 373
26 Per Weichel   Denmark Prone 94 92 92 95 373 1114
Standing 90 92 90 94 366
Kneeling 94 93 92 96 375
27 Bjørn Bakken   Norway Prone 97 93 95 94 379 1112
Standing 90 88 93 90 361
Kneeling 91 93 98 90 372
28 Eugen Satală   Romania Prone 96 95 97 94 382 1102
Standing 91 89 85 86 351
Kneeling 92 90 94 93 369
29 Olegario Vázquez Raña   Mexico Prone 95 98 96 93 382 1100
Standing 81 86 88 87 342
Kneeling 93 94 96 93 376
30 Wu Tao-yan   Republic of China Prone 96 96 96 97 385 1085
Standing 81 87 85 82 335
Kneeling 94 90 92 89 365
31 Jesús Elizondo   Mexico Prone 100 97 98 100 395 1078
Standing 72 78 87 82 319
Kneeling 87 91 90 96 364
32 Yondonjamtsyn Batsükh   Mongolia Prone 97 91 96 90 374 1067
Standing 82 83 88 79 332
Kneeling 93 91 87 90 361
33 Reinaldo Ramírez   Paraguay Prone 96 93 89 92 370 1030
Standing 75 88 85 74 322
Kneeling 85 84 85 84 338
— Jorge di Giandoménico   Argentina Prone DNS
Standing
Kneeling
— Alvaro Cleopatofsky   Colombia Prone DNS
Standing
Kneeling
— Emilian Vergov   Bulgaria Prone DNS
Standing
Kneeling

References

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  1. ^ Sports Reference. "Shooting at the 1972 München Summer Games: Mixed Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres". Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
  2. ^ "Historical Results". ISSF. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  3. ^ The event was open to women only in 1968 and 1972; before that, it was a men's event only.
  4. ^ a b "Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres, Mixed". Olympedia. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
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