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Host City: München, West Germany
Venue(s): Shooting Range, Hochbrück, München
Date Started: August 28, 1972
Date Finished: August 28, 1972
Format: 50 metres prone. 60 shots prone. 600 possible.
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The gold medal was won by North Korean [Li Ho-Jun], who won the first medal ever for North Korea at the Summer Olympics. At first, it appeared that American [Vic Auer] had won the gold with 598 but that was based on unofficial scoring. The official scores gave Li 599 for first place. In his press conference after the victory, he stated, âI thought I was shooting at my enemies. Our Prime Minister, Kim Il-Sung, told us prior to our departure to shoot as if we were fighting our enemies. And thatâs exactly what I did.â Because of the furor this remark caused, Li appeared at another press conference at which he claimed he was misunderstood. Li also finished ninth in the small-bore three position event in 1972.
Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | PTS | R1P | R2P | R3P | R4P | R5P | R6P | |
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1 | Li Ho-Jun | 25 | North Korea | PRK | Gold | 599 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | WR |
2 | Vic Auer | 35 | United States | USA | Silver | 598 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
3 | Nicolae Rotaru | 37 | Romania | ROU | Bronze | 598 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 99 | |
4 | Giuseppe De Chirico | 38 | Italy | ITA | 597 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 100 | ||
5 | JiÅÃ Vogler | 26 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 597 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 100 | ||
6 | Jaime Santiago | 29 | Puerto Rico | PUR | 597 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | ||
7 | Lones Wigger | 35 | United States | USA | 597 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | ||
8 | László Hammerl | 30 | Hungary | HUN | 597 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 99 | ||
9 | Andrzej Trajda | 29 | Poland | POL | 597 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 99 | ||
10 | Donald Brook | 33 | Australia | AUS | 596 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 100 | ||
11 | Rudolf Pojer | 25 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 596 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 99 | ||
12 | Werner Lippoldt | 28 | East Germany | GDR | 596 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 99 | ||
13 | Wolfram Waibel, Sr. | 25 | Austria | AUT | 596 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 98 | ||
14 | Frans Lafortune | 39 | Belgium | BEL | 595 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 99 | ||
15 | Henning Clausen | 32 | Denmark | DEN | 595 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 99 | ||
16 | Silvester Knipfer | 35 | West Germany | FRG | 595 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 98 | ||
17 | Willy Hillen | 29 | Netherlands | NED | 595 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 98 | ||
18 | Vitaly Parkhimovich | 29 | Soviet Union | URS | 594 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | ||
19 | Emiliyan Vergov | 29 | Bulgaria | BUL | 594 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 97 | 99 | 100 | ||
20 | Ernesto Montemayor, Jr. | 44 | Mexico | MEX | 594 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 100 | ||
21 | Stefan Vasilev | 23 | Bulgaria | BUL | 594 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | ||
22 | Ismail Rama | 36 | Albania | ALB | 594 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 99 | ||
23 | Henry Herscovici | 45 | Israel | ISR | 593 | 100 | 99 | 97 | 98 | 100 | 99 | ||
24 | Peter Gorewski | 28 | East Germany | GDR | 593 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | ||
25 | Russell Dove | 43 | Australia | AUS | 593 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | ||
26 | Ioannis Skarafingas | 37 | Greece | GRE | 593 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 99 | ||
27 | Lambis Manthos | 38 | Greece | GRE | 593 | 96 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 | ||
28 | Eulalia RoliÅska | 26 | Poland | POL | 593 | 99 | 97 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 98 | ||
29 | Mike Watt | 36 | New Zealand | NZL | 593 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 97 | ||
30 | Zdravko MilutinoviÄ | 21 | Yugoslavia | YUG | 593 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 97 | ||
31 | Joe Barral | 27 | Monaco | MON | 593 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 97 | ||
32 | Olegario Vázquez | 37 | Mexico | MEX | 592 | 98 | 100 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | ||
33 | Manuel Hawayek | 27 | Puerto Rico | PUR | 592 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 100 | ||
34 | Valentin Kornev | 29 | Soviet Union | URS | 592 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 99 | ||
35 | Mehmet Dursun | 44 | Turkey | TUR | 592 | 100 | 97 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 99 | ||
36 | Christer Jansson | 25 | Sweden | SWE | 592 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | ||
37 | Gottfried Kustermann | 28 | West Germany | FRG | 592 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 99 | ||
38 | Ricardo Rusticucci | 26 | Argentina | ARG | 592 | 99 | 100 | 97 | 100 | 97 | 99 | ||
39 | Sven Johansson | 27 | Sweden | SWE | 592 | 99 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 99 | ||
40 | Helge Anshushaug | 24 | Norway | NOR | 592 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 97 | ||
41 | Wu Tao-Yan | 37 | Chinese Taipei | TPE | 591 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 97 | 99 | 100 | ||
42 | Mendbayaryn Jantsankhorloo | 28 | Mongolia | MGL | 591 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | ||
43 | Walter Frescura | 32 | Italy | ITA | 591 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | ||
44 | Humberto Cabrera | 18 | Cuba | CUB | 591 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 99 | ||
45 | Michel Fontaine | 38 | France | FRA | 591 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 98 | ||
46 | Ian Ballinger | 46 | New Zealand | NZL | 591 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 97 | 96 | ||
47 | Alf Mayer | 42 | Canada | CAN | 590 | 97 | 98 | 97 | 98 | 100 | 100 | ||
48 | Sándor Nagy | 32 | Hungary | HUN | 590 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 97 | 100 | ||
49 | Luis del Cerro | 48 | Spain | ESP | 590 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 96 | 100 | ||
50 | Gil Boa | 48 | Canada | CAN | 590 | 95 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 99 | 99 | ||
51 | Adelso Peña | 18 | Cuba | CUB | 590 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 98 | ||
52 | Robert Houman | 44 | Belgium | BEL | 590 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 98 | ||
53 | Ilie Codreanu | 23 | Romania | ROU | 590 | 99 | 99 | 96 | 100 | 98 | 98 | ||
54 | John Palin | 38 | Great Britain | GBR | 590 | 98 | 98 | 97 | 100 | 100 | 97 | ||
55 | Phil Lawrence | 27 | Great Britain | GBR | 590 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 97 | ||
56 | Dismus Onyiego | 26 | Kenya | KEN | 590 | 100 | 99 | 96 | 99 | 100 | 96 | ||
57 | Zelig Shtroch | 26 | Israel | ISR | 589 | 96 | 98 | 97 | 100 | 99 | 99 | ||
58 | Li Yun-Hae | 31 | North Korea | PRK | 589 | 98 | 98 | 95 | 100 | 99 | 99 | ||
59 | Minoru Ito | 31 | Japan | JPN | 589 | 97 | 96 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 99 | ||
60 | Choi Chung-Seok | 32 | South Korea | KOR | 589 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 96 | 100 | 98 | ||
61 | Jaakko Asikainen | 31 | Finland | FIN | 589 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 98 | ||
62 | Erwin Vogt | 40 | Switzerland | SUI | 588 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 96 | 98 | 98 | ||
63 | Theo Ditzler | 36 | Switzerland | SUI | 587 | 98 | 95 | 97 | 98 | 100 | 99 | ||
64 | José Luis Calvo | 30 | Spain | ESP | 587 | 100 | 96 | 97 | 99 | 97 | 98 | ||
65 | Daya Rajasinghe Nadarajasingham | 24 | Sri Lanka | SRI | 587 | 97 | 99 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 97 | ||
66 | Beqir Kosova | 23 | Albania | ALB | 587 | 100 | 96 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 96 | ||
67 | Karl Fröschl | 45 | Austria | AUT | 587 | 100 | 97 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 95 | ||
68 | Hugo Chamberlain | 37 | Costa Rica | CRC | 586 | 97 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 99 | ||
69 | Jens Nygård | 38 | Norway | NOR | 586 | 99 | 98 | 97 | 100 | 94 | 98 | ||
70 | Udomsak Theinthong | 38 | Thailand | THA | 586 | 96 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 98 | 97 | ||
71 | Alfonso RodrÃguez | 43 | Colombia | COL | 585 | 96 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 97 | 98 | ||
72 | Chira Prabandhayodhin | 33 | Thailand | THA | 585 | 98 | 97 | 99 | 96 | 98 | 97 | ||
73 | Pierre Boisson | 42 | Monaco | MON | 585 | 96 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 97 | 96 | ||
74 | Milton Tucker | 51 | Barbados | BAR | 584 | 97 | 98 | 96 | 96 | 99 | 98 | ||
75 | Gladys Baldwin | 34 | Peru | PER | 584 | 95 | 99 | 98 | 96 | 98 | 98 | ||
76 | Vagn Andersen | 35 | Denmark | DEN | 584 | 97 | 98 | 96 | 97 | 99 | 97 | ||
77 | Agustin Rangel | 47 | Venezuela | VEN | 583 | 98 | 95 | 95 | 100 | 97 | 98 | ||
78 | Douglas Mast | 28 | United States Virgin Islands | ISV | 583 | 98 | 97 | 97 | 96 | 97 | 98 | ||
79 | Simon Ekeno | 26 | Kenya | KEN | 583 | 96 | 95 | 100 | 98 | 96 | 98 | ||
80 | Esa Kervinen | 42 | Finland | FIN | 583 | 97 | 95 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 97 | ||
81 | Remo Sele | 24 | Liechtenstein | LIE | 583 | 95 | 96 | 98 | 98 | 100 | 96 | ||
82 | Takeshi Sugita | 24 | Japan | JPN | 583 | 99 | 98 | 96 | 98 | 97 | 95 | ||
83 | Peter Rull, Sr. | 49 | Hong Kong | HKG | 582 | 97 | 95 | 98 | 99 | 96 | 97 | ||
84 | André Noël | 39 | France | FRA | 581 | 94 | 98 | 97 | 100 | 93 | 99 | ||
85 | Wong Foo Wah | 44 | Malaysia | MAS | 581 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 95 | 96 | 96 | ||
86 | Fernando Inchauste | 42 | Bolivia | BOL | 580 | 97 | 97 | 98 | 94 | 96 | 98 | ||
87 | Louis Frommelt | 29 | Liechtenstein | LIE | 580 | 99 | 99 | 95 | 96 | 95 | 96 | ||
88 | Harold Fredericks | 45 | United States Virgin Islands | ISV | 580 | 98 | 95 | 99 | 97 | 97 | 94 | ||
89 | Jaime Callejas | 31 | Colombia | COL | 579 | 97 | 94 | 97 | 100 | 95 | 96 | ||
90 | César Batista | 43 | Portugal | POR | 578 | 98 | 96 | 94 | 97 | 94 | 99 | ||
91 | Juan Antonio Valencia | 43 | El Salvador | ESA | 576 | 97 | 93 | 97 | 97 | 97 | 95 | ||
92 | Mário Ribeiro | 37 | Portugal | POR | 575 | 96 | 95 | 96 | 94 | 96 | 98 | ||
93 | Carvour Morris | 40 | Barbados | BAR | 575 | 97 | 95 | 95 | 97 | 94 | 97 | ||
94 | Eduardo Arroyo | 40 | Bolivia | BOL | 575 | 96 | 99 | 94 | 97 | 93 | 96 | ||
95 | Prithipal Chatterjee | 28 | India | IND | 572 | 97 | 96 | 96 | 93 | 95 | 95 | ||
96 | Yondonjamtsyn Batsükh | 26 | Mongolia | MGL | 572 | 98 | 96 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 93 | ||
97 | Lodovico Espinosa | 46 | Philippines | PHI | 570 | 92 | 94 | 96 | 98 | 96 | 94 | ||
98 | José Mario Váldez | 41 | El Salvador | ESA | 569 | 94 | 94 | 96 | 96 | 93 | 96 | ||
99 | Roy Choudhury | 26 | India | IND | 567 | 93 | 95 | 97 | 96 | 92 | 94 | ||
100 | Bèto Adriana | 47 | Netherlands Antilles | AHO | 566 | 93 | 93 | 96 | 93 | 96 | 95 | ||
101 | Owen Phillips | 66 | Belize | BIZ | 555 | 87 | 94 | 94 | 94 | 95 | 91 |