Three position fight
The three-position fight is a discipline in sport shooting that was originally only carried out with a small bore ( small bore) or large bore rifle . In order to introduce young people to this competitive discipline, there is now also a variant for the air rifle . The three-position fight is an Olympic discipline at 50 m.
The competition discipline
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The German Schützenbund (DSB) has issued rules in its sports regulations for the implementation of a competition according to international guidelines (1.0.3.6.2 ff.).
A competition is carried out in the stroke types lying - standing - kneeling. The same rifle must be used in all three types of attack (exception for competitions with the "free rifle" and the "sport rifle"). 40 shots are fired three times, of which 40 shots lying down in 60 minutes, 40 shots standing in 90 minutes and 40 shots kneeling in 75 minutes, including the test shots. The following type of attack may only begin when all participants have finished the current type of attack.
With an electronic display of the shooting results, the duration of the competition is reduced to 40 shots lying down in 45 minutes, 40 shots standing in 75 minutes and 40 shots kneeling in 60 minutes including test shots. In the women's class, 20 shots are fired three times in the same order at the Olympic Games. The final shooting in the men's and women's classes of the Olympic competitions, in which the best eight shooters of the competition are allowed to take part, takes place in the standing position. 10 shots are fired at a time; the shooter has 75 seconds for each shot in the final. The respective result has been evaluated to 1/10 of a ring since 1988.
For young people who are allowed to shoot this discipline with an air rifle up to the age of 15, the number of shots is reduced to three times 20 shots. From the age of 16, only small and large caliber competitions are advertised at clubs in the German Rifle Federation.
In the kneeling competition, a roll, the so-called "kneeling roll", may be placed under the instep of the foot on which the shooter is sitting. In prone and kneeling combat, a so-called rifle sling into which the rifle is inserted may be used to hold the rifle.
Olympic champion 3 × 40 / sport rifle / small bore rifle
- 2016: Barbara Engleder (Germany), 458.6 points (Olympic record)
- 2012: Niccolo Campriani (Italy), 1278.5 rings
Jamie Lynn Gray (USA), 691.9 rings (99.9 rings in the final - Olympic final record) - 2004: Jia Zhanbo (China), 1264.5 rings
Ljubow Galkina (Russia), 688.4 rings - 2000: Rajmond Debevec (Slovakia), 1275.1 rings
Renata Mauer-Rozanska (Poland), 684.6 rings - 1996: Jean-Pierre Amat (France), 1,273.9 rings
Alexandra Ivosev (Yugoslavia), 686.1 rings - 1992: Gratschia Petikjan ( United Team ), 1267.4 rings
- 1988: Malcolm Cooper (Great Britain), 1,279.3 rings
Silvia Sperber (Federal Republic of Germany), 685.6 rings - 1984: Malcolm Cooper (Great Britain), 1173 rings
Wu Xiaoxuan (China), 581 rings - 1980: Viktor Vlasov (Soviet Union), 1173 rings
- 1976: Lanny Bassham (USA), 1162 rings
- 1972: John Writer (USA), 1166 rings
- 1968: Bernd Klingner (Federal Republic of Germany), 1157 rings (KK)
Gary Anderson (USA), 1157 rings (free rifle) - 1960: Wiktor Schamburkin (Soviet Union), 1149 rings (KK)
Hubert Hammerer (Austria), 1129 rings (free rifle)
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- 1956: Anatoli Bogdanow (Soviet Union), 1172 rings (KK)
Wassili Borissow (Soviet Union), 1138 rings (Free Rifle) - 1952: Erling Kongshaug (Norway), 1164 rings (KK)
Anatoli Bogdanow (Soviet Union), 1123 rings (free rifle) - 1948: Emil Grünig (Switzerland), 1120 rings (free rifle)
1912, 1920, 1924, 1932, 1936 no competitions in this discipline
- 1908: Albert Helgerud (Norway), 909 rings
Team: Norway 5055 points
- Each participant had to fire 40 shots each from a distance of 300 meters in a standing, kneeling and lying position. The weapon could be chosen freely and the results did not count towards the individual competition.
- 1900: Emil Kellenberger (Switzerland), 930 rings (army rifle), there were also winners in the individual types of attack .