Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone

Men's 50 metre rifle, prone at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Melbourne, Australia
Date	5 December 1956
Competitors	44 from 25 nations
Medalists
Gerald Ouellette  Canada Vasily Borisov  Soviet Union Gil Boa  Canada

Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Rifle
300 metre rifle	men
50 m rifle, three positions	men
50 m rifle, prone	men
Pistol
25 m rapid fire pistol	men
50 metre pistol	men
Shotgun
Trap	men
Running deer
100 m running deer	men

The men's 50 metre rifle prone was a shooting sports event held as part of the shooting programme of the 1956 Summer Olympics. It was the eighth appearance of the event. The competition was held on 5 December 1956 at the shooting ranges in Melbourne. 44 shooters from 25 nations competed.^[1]

Place	Shooter	Total
1	Gerald Ouellette (CAN)	600
2	Vasily Borisov (URS)	599
3	Gil Boa (CAN)	598
4	Otakar Hořínek (TCH)	598
5	Iosif Sîrbu (ROU)	598
6	Sándor Krebs (HUN)	598
7	Erling Kongshaug (NOR)	598
8	Severino Moreira (BRA)	597
9	Constantin Antonescu (ROU)	596
10	Don Tolhurst (AUS)	596
11	Rudi Sigl (EUA)	596
12	John Sundberg (SWE)	596
13	Anker Hagen (NOR)	596
14	Anders Kvissberg (SWE)	596
15	Vilho Ylönen (FIN)	596
16	Zlatko Mašek (YUG)	595
17	Johannes Human (RSA)	595
18	Uffe Schultz Larsen (DEN)	595
19	Wu Tao-yan (ROC)	595
20	Milton Sobocinski (BRA)	594
21	Oscar Caceres (PER)	594
22	Norman Rule (AUS)	594
23	César Jayme (PHI)	594
24	Yukio Inokuma (JPN)	594
25	Enrique Lucca (VEN)	594
26	Steffen Cranmer (GBR)	593
27	Albert Sigl (EUA)	593
28	Luis Coquis (PER)	593
29	Anatoly Bogdanov (URS)	593
30	Robin Lavine (RSA)	593
31	Art Jackson (USA)	593
32	Jorma Taitto (FIN)	592
33	Juan Llabot (VEN)	592
34	Hernando Castelo (PHI)	592
35	Jacques Mazoyer (FRA)	591
36	Verle Wright Jr. (USA)	590
37	Ole Hviid Jensen (DEN)	590
38	Frederick Hopkinson (GBR)	590
39	Maurice Racca (FRA)	589
40	Roy Congreve (KEN)	587
41	Charles Trotter (KEN)	586
42	Frans Lafortune (BEL)	585
43	Tomokazu Maruyama (JPN)	584
44	Zafar Ahmed Muhammad (PAK)	582