World Championships, Men
This event was held in 1937–2006.
| Year | Place | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | Helsinki | Jacques Louis Mazoyer (FRA) | Viljo Leskinen (FIN) | Gustav Lokotar (EST) |
| 1939 | Luzern | Karl Steigelmann (GER) | August Liivik (EST) | Kurt Johansson (SWE) |
| 1949 | Buenos Aires | Pauli Aapeli Janhonen (FIN) | Arthur Edwin Cook (USA) | Erling Asbjoern Kongshaug (NOR) |
| 1952 | Oslo | Erling Asbjoern Kongshaug (NOR) | Robert Buerchler (SUI) | Johan Hunaes (NOR) |
| 1954 | Caracas | Anatoli Bogdanov (URS) | Vassily Borisov (URS) | Vilho Ilmari Yloenen (FIN) |
| 1958 | Moscow | Victor Shamburkin (URS) | Marat Niyazov (URS) | Moysey Itkis (URS) |
| 1962 | Cairo | Gary Anderson (USA) | Marat Niyazov (URS) | Erwin Vogt (SUI) |
| 1966 | Wiesbaden | Gary Anderson (USA) | Marat Niyazov (URS) | Henryk Gorski (POL) |
| 1970 | Phoenix | Vitali Parkhimovitch (URS) | John Writer (USA) | Lones Wigger (USA) |
| 1974 | Thun | John Writer (USA) | Lones Wigger (USA) | Lanny Bassham (USA) |
| 1978 | Seoul | Lanny Bassham (USA) | Malcolm Cooper (GBR) | Ulrich Lind (FRG) |
| 1982 | Caracas | Vladimir Lvov (URS) | Peter Heinz (FRG) | Viktor Vlasov (URS) |
| 1986 | Suhl | Petr Kurka (TCH) | Malcolm Cooper (GBR) | Pavel Soukenik (TCH) |
| 1990 | Moscow | Eun Chul Lee (KOR) | Robert Foth (USA) | Hrachya Petikyan (URS) |
| 1994 | Milan | Petr Kurka (CZE) | Thomas Tamas (USA) | Wolfram Jun. Waibel (AUT) |
| 1998 | Barcelona | Jozef Gönci (SVK) | Pascal Bessy (FRA) | Rajmond Debevec (SLO) |
| 2002 | Lahti | Marcel Buerge (SUI) | Konstantin Prikhodtchenko (RUS) | Peter Sidi (HUN) |
| 2006 | Zagreb | Artem Khadjibekov (RUS) | Stevan Pletikosic (SCG) | Lei Zhang (CHN) |
| 2010 | Munich | Peter Sidi (HUN) | Han Jinseop (KOR) | Nemanja Mirosavljev (SRB) |
Read more about this topic: 50 Metre Rifle Three Positions
Famous quotes containing the words world and/or men:
“Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir’d by Conversation.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)