Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, seven events in shooting were contested, all for men only. They were held between 29 November and 5 December 1956.[1]

Shooting at the
1956 Summer Olympics
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25 m rapid fire pistol men
50 metre pistol men
300 metre rifle men
50 m rifle, three positions men
50 m rifle, prone men
100 m running deer men
Trap men

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
25 metre rapid fire pistol
details		 Ștefan Petrescu
 Romania		 Yevgeny Cherkasov
 Soviet Union		 Gheorghe Lichiardopol
 Romania
50 metre pistol
details		 Pentti Linnosvuo
 Finland		 Makhmud Umarov
 Soviet Union		 Offutt Pinion
 United States
300 metre rifle three positions
details		 Vasily Borisov
 Soviet Union		 Allan Erdman
 Soviet Union		 Vilho Ylönen
 Finland
50 metre rifle three positions
details		 Anatoli Bogdanov
 Soviet Union		 Otakar Hořínek
 Czechoslovakia		 John Sundberg
 Sweden
50 metre rifle prone
details		 Gerald Ouellette
23x15px Canada		 Vasily Borisov
 Soviet Union		 Stuart Boa
23x15px Canada
100 metre running deer
details		 Vitali Romanenko
 Soviet Union		 Per Olof Sköldberg
 Sweden		 Vladimir Sevryugin
 Soviet Union
Trap
details		 Galliano Rossini
 Italy		 Adam Smelczyński
 Poland		 Alessandro Ciceri
 Italy

Participating nations

A total of 156 shooters from 37 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:[1]

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Soviet Union (URS) 3 4 1 8
2 Canada Canada (CAN) 1 0 1 2
 Finland (FIN) 1 0 1 2
 Italy (ITA) 1 0 1 2
 Romania (ROU) 1 0 1 2
6  Sweden (SWE) 0 1 1 2
7  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 0 1 0 1
 Poland (POL) 0 1 0 1
9  United States (USA) 0 0 1 1

References

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