Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre rifle three positions

Women's 50 metre rifle three positions at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date	September 21, 1988
Competitors	37 from 22 nations
Winning score	685.6 (OR)
Medalists
Silvia Sperber   West Germany   Vesela Letcheva   Bulgaria   Valentina Cherkasova   Soviet Union

Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions		men		women
50 m rifle prone		men
10 m air rifle		men		women
Pistol
50 m pistol		men
25 m pistol				women
25 m rapid fire pistol		men
10 m air pistol		men		women
Shotgun
Trap		mixed
Skeet		mixed
Running target
50 m running target		men

Women's 50 metre rifle three positions (then known as standard rifle) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. It was the first Olympic three positions competition to feature final shooting.

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Prone	Stand	Kneel	Total	Notes
1	Silvia Sperber	West Germany	200	193	197	590	Q OR
2	Valentina Cherkasova	Soviet Union	198	193	195	586	Q
3	Anna Maloukhina	Soviet Union	198	191	196	585	Q
4	Katja Klepp	East Germany	199	187	198	584	Q
5	Sharon Bowes	Canada	196	194	194	584	Q
6	Vesela Letcheva	Bulgaria	199	192	192	583	Q
7	Anita Karlsson	Sweden	198	193	192	583	Q
8	Launi Meili	United States	197	190	195	582	Q
9	Irene Dufaux	Switzerland	198	192	191	581
10	Pirjo Peltola	Finland	196	188	196	580
11	Nonka Matova	Bulgaria	199	187	194	580
11	Selma Sonnet	West Germany	197	190	193	580
13	Wanda Jewell	United States	197	186	196	579
13	May-Irene Olsen	Norway	196	190	193	579
13	Zhang Qiuping	China	199	184	196	579
16	Sylvia Baldessarini	Austria	197	190	191	578
16	Dagmar Bilková	Czechoslovakia	193	189	196	578
16	Lenka Koloušková	Czechoslovakia	199	186	193	578
19	Christin Ashcroft Schulze	Canada	199	182	196	577
20	Dorothee Deuring	Austria	198	184	194	576
20	Éva Joó	Hungary	198	189	189	576
20	Zhou Danhong	China	198	184	194	576
23	Soma Dutta	India	198	183	194	575
23	Dominique Esnault	France	200	185	190	575
23	Lee Hye-kyung	South Korea	199	187	189	575
26	Eva Forian	Hungary	198	186	189	573
27	Sirpa Ylönen	Finland	197	186	189	572
28	Alison Feast	Australia	195	184	191	570
28	Mladenka Malenica	Yugoslavia	193	184	193	570
30	Isabelle Heberle	France	195	183	190	568
30	Kim Young-mi	South Korea	196	185	187	568
32	Kyoko Kinoshita	Japan	193	184	189	566
33	Carina Jansson	Sweden	199	172	193	565
34	Gaby Bühlmann	Switzerland	195	180	186	561
34	Thiranun Jinda	Thailand	194	176	191	561
36	Sarah Cooper	Great Britain	198	168	191	557
37	Siri Landsem	Norway	195	179	182	556

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
01 !	Silvia Sperber (FRG)	590	95.6	685.6	OR
02 !	Vesela Letcheva (BUL)	583	100.2	683.2
03 !	Valentina Cherkasova (URS)	586	95.4	681.4
4	Katja Klepp (GDR)	584	96.5	680.5
5	Sharon Bowes (CAN)	584	96.5	680.5
6	Anna Maloukhina (URS)	585	93.4	678.4
7	Launi Meili (USA)	582	94.5	676.5
8	Anita Karlsson (SWE)	583	93.4	676.4

OR Olympic record

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