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Men's 50m Prone Rifle
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23-08-2004 5:01pm#1US collegiate shooter Matthew Emmons has taken the Gold medal in the 50m prone event, beating Germany's Christian Lusch by a bare 0.9 points.
Emmons, a college student from the University of Fairbanks, Alaska, came into the final a single point ahead of the other shooters on 599. He held his nerve through the finals, with only a single 9.9 as his lowest score, to concede a mere 0.1 points of this lead. This is even more impressive when you consider that it wasn't his rifle - Emmons discovered shortly before leaving the US to come to Athens that his rifle wasn't ejecting spent cases, and that someone had damaged the rifle with a screwdriver, so he borrowed a ladies sport rifle and shot the match with that.
Lusch, who had dropped only one point more than Emmons in the qualification round, actually shot a better finals than Emmons by 0.1 points, showing that the qualifications round is still the vital section of the 50m prone event.
Sergei Martynov who took Bronze in the event, had the best finals of the match, moving up in placing during the finals from joint fourth to third place, pipping Jozef Gonci for the medal by just over a point.
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