Olympic Update: Men's 50m Rifle Prone

Rank	Name	Team	Total
1	Artur Ayvazian	Ukraine	702.7
2	Matthew Emmons	United States	701.7
3	Warren Potent	Australia	700.5

Matt Emmons (husband of Czech shooter Katerina Emmons, who won a gold medal in air rifle and a silver medal in 3-position rifle earlier in the 2008 Olympics) won the Redfield Trophy at the NRA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships in 2000, 2001, and 2002. In 2003, he won the Gillies Memorial Trophy and the Butterman Trophy. And back in 1997, he won the Stark Memorial Prone Trophy as the Intermediate Junior Prone Champion at the National Championships.

Michael Anti came in ninth place at the 50m Rifle Prone event. Maj. Anti won the Lister Memorial Trophy as National Indoor Sectional National Smallbore Rifle Champion in 2003, and was the 3-Position Smallbore Champion at the National Championships at Camp Perry in 2006. He and Jason Parker (who competed in air rifle event earlier in the week, and will be competing in the 3-position rifle event over the weekend) were on the winning team in the National Smallbore Rifle NRA 3-Position Team Championship in 2005. And, like Emmons, Maj. Anti is a past junior champion, too; he won the Stark Memorial Position Trophy in 1981, and the Stark Memorial Prone Trophy in 1982.

You can watch video from the 50m rifle prone final at NBC's website.