| Men's 50 metre rifle 3 positions team at the 2002 Asian Games | |||||||
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| Venue | Changwon International Shooting Range | ||||||
| Dates | 7 October | ||||||
| Competitors | 33 from 11 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 team competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held on 7 October at the Changwon International Shooting Range.
50 metre rifle three positions is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 metre rifle three positions. It consists of the kneeling, prone, and standing positions, fired in that order, traditionally with 3×40 shots for men and 3×20 shots for women. In January 2018 the number of shots was equalised between genders with the Women's 3x20 being abolished in favour of a 3x40 match identical to the Men's event. The caliber is .22 Long Rifle (5.6 mm).
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.
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The rifle 3 positions consists of the kneeling, prone, and standing positions, fired in that order, with 3×40 shots. The caliber was .22 Long Rifle (5.6 mm).
Chinese team with Cai Yalin, Qiu Jian and Yao Ye won the gold medal after setting a new Asian record with 3472 points. The previous record was 3461 set seven years ago in Jakarta.
Cai Yalin is a male Chinese sports shooter. He won the 10 m air rifle at the 2000 Summer Olympics, in the process beating the Olympic record of 695.7pts with 696.4pts.
Qiu Jian is a male Chinese sports shooter who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Yao Ye is a male Chinese sports shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
The host team South Korea (Cha Young-chul, Nam Hyung-jin and Park Bong-duk) finished second only two points behind China and won the silver medal.
Cha Young-chul is a South Korean sport shooter who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, in the 1992 Summer Olympics, and in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Park Bong-Duk is a South Korean sport shooter. He won two bronze medals in the men's 50 m rifle three positions at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, with scores of 1,247 and 1,256.8 points, respectively. He also competed for two rifle shooting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but he neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal.
Kazakhstan team (Sergey Belyayev, Vitaliy Dovgun and Yuriy Melsitov) won the bronze medal with the score of 3452, twelve points more than fourth placed team Kyrgyzstan. there were eleven teams in the competition with Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Thailand, Mongolia, India and Oman finished fifth to eleventh in that order.
Sergey Belyayev is a Kazakhstani shooter, who won two silver medals in 50 metre rifle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.
Vitaliy Semyonovich Dovgun is a Kazakhstani sport shooter. At age thirty-eight, Dovgun made his official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in all three rifle shooting events. He is also the husband of four-time Olympian Olga Dovgun, who qualified for the same category at these Olympic games.
Yuriy Melsitov is Kazakh shooter. He is winner of the 2006 Asian Games in rifle prone team competition.
