Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre rifle three positions
# Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre rifle three positions

Women's 50 metre rifle three positions (then known as standard rifle) was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

## Qualification round

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Prone | Stand | Kneel | Total | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Silvia Sperber | West Germany | 200 | 193 | 197 | 590 | Q OR |
| 2 | Valentina Cherkasova | Soviet Union | 198 | 193 | 195 | 586 | Q |
| 3 | Anna Maloukhina | Soviet Union | 198 | 191 | 196 | 585 | Q |
| 4 | Katja Klepp | East Germany | 199 | 187 | 198 | 584 | Q |
| 5 | Sharon Bowes | Canada | 196 | 194 | 194 | 584 | Q |
| 6 | Vesela Letcheva | Bulgaria | 199 | 192 | 192 | 583 | Q |
| 7 | Anita Karlsson | Sweden | 198 | 193 | 192 | 583 | Q |
| 8 | Launi Meili | United States | 197 | 190 | 195 | 582 | Q |
| 9 | Irene Dufaux | Switzerland | 198 | 192 | 191 | 581 | |
| 10 | Pirjo Peltola | Finland | 196 | 188 | 196 | 580 | |
| 11 | Nonka Matova | Bulgaria | 199 | 187 | 194 | 580 | |
| 11 | Selma Sonnet | West Germany | 197 | 190 | 193 | 580 | |
| 13 | Wanda Jewell | United States | 197 | 186 | 196 | 579 | |
| 13 | May-Irene Olsen | Norway | 196 | 190 | 193 | 579 | |
| 13 | Zhang Qiuping | China | 199 | 184 | 196 | 579 | |
| 16 | Sylvia Baldessarini | Austria | 197 | 190 | 191 | 578 | |
| 16 | Dagmar Bilková | Czechoslovakia | 193 | 189 | 196 | 578 | |
| 16 | Lenka Koloušková | Czechoslovakia | 199 | 186 | 193 | 578 | |
| 19 | Christina Schulze-Ashcroft | Canada | 199 | 182 | 196 | 577 | |
| 20 | Dorothee Deuring | Austria | 198 | 184 | 194 | 576 | |
| 20 | Éva Joó | Hungary | 198 | 189 | 189 | 576 | |
| 20 | Zhou Danhong | China | 198 | 184 | 194 | 576 | |
| 23 | Soma Dutta | India | 198 | 183 | 194 | 575 | |
| 23 | Dominique Esnault | France | 200 | 185 | 190 | 575 | |
| 23 | Lee Hye-kyung | South Korea | 199 | 187 | 189 | 575 | |
| 26 | Eva Forian | Hungary | 198 | 186 | 189 | 573 | |
| 27 | Sirpa Ylönen | Finland | 197 | 186 | 189 | 572 | |
| 28 | Alison Feast | Australia | 195 | 184 | 191 | 570 | |
| 28 | Mladenka Malenica | Yugoslavia | 193 | 184 | 193 | 570 | |
| 30 | Isabelle Héberlé | France | 195 | 183 | 190 | 568 | |
| 30 | Kim Young-mi | South Korea | 196 | 185 | 187 | 568 | |
| 32 | Kyoko Kinoshita | Japan | 193 | 184 | 189 | 566 | |
| 33 | Carina Jansson | Sweden | 199 | 172 | 193 | 565 | |
| 34 | Gaby Bühlmann | Switzerland | 195 | 180 | 186 | 561 | |
| 34 | Thiranun Jinda | Thailand | 194 | 176 | 191 | 561 | |
| 36 | Sarah Cooper | Great Britain | 198 | 168 | 191 | 557 | |
| 37 | Siri Landsem | Norway | 195 | 179 | 182 | 556 | |

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Qual | Final | Total | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Silvia Sperber (FRG) | 590 | 95.6 | 685.6 | OR |
| | Vesela Letcheva (BUL) | 583 | 100.2 | 683.2 | |
| | Valentina Cherkasova (URS) | 586 | 95.4 | 681.4 | |
| 4 | Katja Klepp (GDR) | 584 | 96.5 | 680.5 | |
| 5 | Sharon Bowes (CAN) | 584 | 96.5 | 680.5 | |
| 6 | Anna Maloukhina (URS) | 585 | 93.4 | 678.4 | |
| 7 | Launi Meili (USA) | 582 | 94.5 | 676.5 | |
| 8 | Anita Karlsson (SWE) | 583 | 93.4 | 676.4 | |

OR Olympic record

