ISSF 50 meter rifle prone
50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a.22 Long Rifle caliber rifle. The time limit is 75 minutes for the entire match, including sighting shots, or 90 minutes if there is a need to compensate for slow scoring systems. In the 2013 ISSF rules the 60-shot prone match consists of 15-minute preparation and sighting time, followed by the match - 60 shots in 50 minutes for electronic scoring, and 60 shots in 60 minutes for paper targets.
The sport is based on the traditional "English Match" that also consisted of 60 shots in the prone position with a.22 rifle, but had varying distances between and.
Before 2017, the men's event was included in the Olympic program but starting with the 2020 Olympics this event has been deleted to promote equal gender in Olympic shooting sports. Mixed gender doubles events were introduced to replace this event and two other individual shooting events. Now this event is contested in World Championships only. This includes a final for the top eight competitors. Beginning with the 2013 season, a new finals format was instituted, in which the qualification score is discarded, and the standings among the top eight shooters are determined by their finals scores alone. The course of fire was also changed significantly with the new rules, from the previous 10-shot and then 20-shots program into a 24-shot elimination format, with the lowest ranking shooter eliminated every two shots, starting from the completion of 12th shot.
The women's event is not Olympic but included in both the ISSF and the CISM World Championships. Since the final was discontinued in 2018, shooters with the same score are separated by a number of tie-breaking criteria, the first being the number of inner tens. Women's rifles may weigh up to, as opposed to for men, but after the switch from standard rifles to sport rifles this is now the only difference in equipment.
World Championships, Men
| Year | Place | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1962 |  Cairo | |||
| 1966 |  Wiesbaden | |||
| 1970 |  Phoenix | |||
| 1974 |  Thun | |||
| 1978 |  Seoul | |||
| 1982 |  Caracas | |||
| 1986 |  Suhl | |||
| 1990 |  Moscow | |||
| 1994 |  Milan |  Stevan Pletikosic | ||
| 1998 |  Barcelona | |||
| 2002 |  Lahti | |||
| 2006 |  Zagreb | |||
| 2010 |  Munich | |||
| 2014 | Granada | |||
| 2018 | Changwon |
World Championships, Men Team
| Year | Place | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1962 | Cairo |  SwedenChrister Gustafsson Kurt Johansson Jan Emil Poignant Nils Johan Sundberg | United States Gary Anderson James Enoch Hill Presley Kendall Verle Franklin Jun. Wright | West Germany Rudolf Bortz Peter Kohnke Karl Wenk Klaus Zaehringer |
| 1966 | Wiesbaden | United States Donald Adams David Boyd Bill Krilling Lones Wigger |  PolandJanusz Kalmus Stanislaw Marucha Jerzy Nowicki Andrzej Trajda | Soviet Union Vassily Borisov Alexander Gerasimenok Yuri Kudryashov Marat Niyazov |
| 1970 | Phoenix | Italy Giuseppe de Chirico Franco Donna Walter Frescura Luigi Testarmata |  RomaniaMarin Ferecatu Ștefan Kaban Gheorghe Vasilescu Stefan Tamas |  YugoslaviaDusan Epifanic Branislav Loncar Zdravko Milutinovic Miroslav Sipek |
| 1974 | Thun | Finland Jouko Ilmari Hietalahti Pauli Aapeli Janhonen Esa Einari Kervinen Leif Lajunen | United States Victor Auer Presley Kendall Margaret Murdock Lones Wigger |  CzechoslovakiaKarel Bulan Petr Kovarik Karel Skyba Jiri Vogler |
| 1978 | Seoul | United States Lanny Bassham John Comley Boyd Goldsby Lones Wigger | West Germany Kurt Hillenbrand Ulrich Lind Karlheinz Smieszek Werner Seibold | Switzerland Hans Braem Pierre Alain Dufaux Anton Mueller Robert Weilenmann |
| 1982 | Caracas | Soviet Union Victor Daniltchenko Gennadi Lushikov Alexander Mitrofanov Viktor Vlasov | West Germany Hubert Bichler Peter Heinz Ulrich Lind Werner Seibold |  AustriaAlbert Deuring Lothar Heinrich Hannes Rainer Wolfram Waibel Sr. |
| 1986 | Suhl |  AustraliaDonald Brook Warren Potent Alan Smith | East Germany Bernd Hartstein Mario Gonsierowski Hellfried Heilfort | Sweden Christian Heller Stefan Lövbom Hans Strand |
| 1990 | Moscow | Soviet Union Viatcheslav Botchkarev Gennadi Lushikov Sergei Martynov | Czechoslovakia Jaromir Bures Vaclav Becvar Miroslav Varga | Yugoslavia Rajmond Debevec Goran Maksimovic Nemanja Mirosavljev |
| 1994 | Milan |  UkraineArtur Ayvazyan Oleg Dementyev Andriy Sheykin |  FranceJean-Pierre Amat Michel Bury Dominique Maquin |  RussiaViatcheslav Botchkarev Artem Khadjibekov Sergei Schedrin |
| 1998 | Barcelona | United States Thomas Tamas Glenn Dubis Lance Hopper |  SlovakiaPeter Bubernik Miroslav Svorada Jozef Gönci | Italy Roberto Vitobello Marco de Nicolo Roberto Facheris |
| 2002 | Lahti |  NorwayEspen Berg-Knutsen Vebjoern Berg Harald Stenvaag | Ukraine Oleg Mykhaylov Artur Ayvazyan Jury Sukhorukov | Russia Konstantin Prikhodtchenko Sergei Kovalenko Artem Khadjibekov |
| 2006 | Zagreb | United States Michael McPhail Eric Uptagrafft Matthew Emmons | Austria Mario Knoegler Christian Planer Alexander Uhl |  HungaryPeter Sidi Tibor Gabor Mlinkovics Szabolcs Herczegh |
| 2010 | Munich | United States Michael McPhail Eric Uptagrafft Matthew Emmons | South Korea Han Jinseop Kim Jonghyun Kim Hakman | Russia Artem Khadjibekov Konstantin Prikhodtchenko Dmitry Ponomarev |
| 2014 | Granada |  ChinaZhao Shengbo Lan Xing Liu Gang |  BelarusSergei Martynov Yuri Shcherbatsevich Vitali Bubnovich |  SerbiaStevan Pletikosić Milenko Sebić Nemanja Mirosavljev |
| 2018 | Changwon | Germany Daniel Brodmeier Christoph Kaulich Maximilian Dallinger | United States Michael McPhail Matthew Emmons Lucas Kozeniesky | China Zhao Zhonghao Sun Jian Liu Gang |
World Championships, Women
| Year | Place | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1966 | Wiesbaden | |||
| 1970 | Phoenix | |||
| 1974 | Thun | |||
| 1978 | Seoul | |||
| 1982 | Caracas | |||
| 1986 | Suhl | |||
| 1990 | Moscow | |||
| 1994 | Milan | |||
| 1998 | Barcelona | |||
| 2002 | Lahti | |||
| 2006 | Zagreb | |||
| 2010 | Munich | |||
| 2014 | Granada | |||
| 2018 | Changwon |
World Championships, Women Team
| Year | Place | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1966 | Wiesbaden | Poland Barbara Kopyt Bozena Wzietek Eulalia Zakrzewska | United States Marianne Jensen Patricia Kinsella Margaret Thompson | Hungary Oszkarne Kellner Lajosne Kisgyorgy Ferencne Kun |
| 1970 | Phoenix | Yugoslavia Magdalena Herold Mirjana Masic Desanka Perovic | West Germany Ingrid Kappes Gerlinde Popp Anneliese Rhomberg | Soviet Union Tamara Cherkasova Lucia Fagereva Tatiana Ratnikova |
| 1974 | Thun | United States Schuyler Helbing Margaret Murdock Diana Zimmermann | Yugoslavia Mirjana Masic Desanka Pesut Valeria Sabatka | Sweden Margareta Gustafsson Christina Gustafsson Brita Raning |
| 1978 | Seoul | United States Karen Monez Wanda Oliver Sue Ann Sandusky | France Yvette Courault Dominique Esnault Elisabeth Lesou | Australia Tricia van Nus Sylvia Muehlberg Tracey Smith |
| 1982 | Caracas | Australia Yvonne Gowland Yvonne Hill Sylvia Muehlberg | Soviet Union Svetlana Komaristova Lessia Leskiv Tatiana Sytcheva | France Yvette Courault Dominique Esnault Isabelle Heberle |
| 1986 | Suhl | Yugoslavia Vesna Domazet Mirjana Jovovic Biserka Vrbek |  BulgariaPetja Doudekova Vesela Letcheva Nonka Matova | Sweden Anette Andersson Margareta Gustafsson Christina Gustafsson |
| 1990 | Moscow | Soviet Union Valentina Cherkasova Lessia Leskiv Iryna Shylava | Bulgaria Vesela Letcheva Nonka Matova Milena Spasova | United States Tammie Deangles Launi Meili Kristen Peterson |
| 1994 | Milan | Russia Valentina Cherkasova Irina Gerasimenok Anna Maloukhina | Norway Lindy Hansen Grethe Martinsen Hanne Vataker | Ukraine Lessia Leskiv Tatiana Nesterova Olga Cheremska |
| 1998 | Barcelona | Russia Marina Bobkova Irina Gerasimenok Tatiana Goldobina | China Xian Wang Yinghui Zhao Hong Shan | Ukraine Lessia Leskiv Olga Larina Olena Davydova |
| 2002 | Lahti | Finland Viivi Villa Jenni Ranta Helena Juppala |  DenmarkPia Jakobsen Anni Bissoe Charlotte Jakobsen | Germany Britta Grossecappenberg Petra Horneber Sonja Pfeilschifter |
| 2006 | Zagreb | Germany Sonja Pfeilschifter Dorothee Bauer Claudia Keck |  KazakhstanGalina Korchma Olga Dovgun Varvara Kovalenko | Ukraine Natallia Kalnysh Olena Davydova Lessia Leskiv |
| 2010 | Munich | Switzerland Aurelie Grangier Annik Marguet Irene Beyeler | Germany Eva Friedel Sonja Pfeilschifter Nicole Stenzenberger | South Korea Kim Yooyeon Jeong Mira Kwon Nara |
| 2014 | Granada | Germany Beate Gauss Barbara Engleder Isabella Straub | China Chen Dongqi Chang Jing Yi Siling | Ukraine Lessia Leskiv Natallia Kalnysh Olga Golubchenko |
| 2018 | Changwon | Germany Jaqueline Orth Isabella Straub Amelie Kleinmanns | Denmark Stine Nielsen Rikki Maeng Ibsen Stephanie Laura Scurrah Grundsoee |  Great BritainSeonaid McIntosh Jennifer McIntosh Zoe Anne Bruce |