| Men's 50 metre rifle 3 positions at the 2002 Asian Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Changwon International Shooting Range | |||||||||
| Dates | 7 October | |||||||||
| Competitors | 40 from 15 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Shooting at the 2002 Asian Games | ||
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| Pistol | ||
| 10 m air pistol | men (T) | women (T) |
| 25 m center fire pistol | men (T) | |
| 25 m rapid fire pistol | men (T) | |
| 25 m standard pistol | men (T) | |
| 25 m / 50 m pistol | men (T) | women (T) |
| Rifle | ||
| 10 m air rifle | men (T) | women (T) |
| 50 m rifle prone | men (T) | women (T) |
| 50 m rifle 3 positions | men (T) | women (T) |
| Running target | ||
| 10 m running target | men (T) | women (T) |
| Shotgun | ||
| Trap | men (T) | women (T) |
| Double trap | men (T) | women (T) |
| Skeet | men (T) | women (T) |
The men's 50 metre rifle three positions competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held on 7 October at the Changwon International Shooting Range.
The 2002 Asian Games, also known as the XIV Asiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Busan, South Korea from September 29 to October 14, 2002 with the football event commenced 2 days before the opening ceremony.
Busan, formerly Romanized as Pusan and now officially Busan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's second most-populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.5 million inhabitants. It is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern Korea, with its port—Korea's busiest and the fifth-busiest in the world —only about 120 miles (190 km) from the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Honshu. The surrounding "Southeast Economic Zone" is South Korea's largest industrial area.
South Korea is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. The name Korea is derived from Goguryeo which was one of the great powers in East Asia during its time, ruling most of the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria, parts of the Russian Far East and Inner Mongolia under Gwanggaeto the Great. Its capital, Seoul, is a major global city and half of South Korea's over 51 million people live in the Seoul Capital Area, the fourth largest metropolitan economy in the world.
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The men's 50 metre rifle three positions consists of the prone, standing and kneeling positions, fired in that order, with 3×40 shots for men.
Prone position is a body position in which the person lies flat with the chest down and the back up. In anatomical terms of location, the dorsal side is up, and the ventral side is down. The supine position is the 180° contrast.
The kneeling position is a position for rifle shooting. There are no longer international competitions in pure kneeling shooting, but it is included as the last part of 300 metre rifle three positions, 300 metre standard rifle and 50 metre rifle three positions.
The men's match has separate commands and times for each position, giving each shooter 45 minutes to complete the prone part, 75 minutes for the standing part, and 60 minutes for the kneeling part, including sighting shots for each part.
The top eight competitors reach the final, where the score zones are divided into tenths, giving up to 10.9 points for each shot. The men's final consists of ten shots from the standing position, with a time limit of 75 seconds per shot. The competition is won by the shooter who reaches the highest aggregate score (qualification + final, maximum 1309.0).
