Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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
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	Ștefan Petrescu  Romania	Yevgeny Cherkasov  Soviet Union	Gheorghe Lichiardopol  Romania
50 metre pistol	Pentti Linnosvuo  Finland	Makhmud Umarov  Soviet Union	Offutt Pinion  United States
300 metre rifle three positions	Vasily Borisov  Soviet Union	Allan Erdman  Soviet Union	Vilho Ylönen  Finland
50 metre rifle three positions	Anatoli Bogdanov  Soviet Union	Otakar Hořínek  Czechoslovakia	John Sundberg  Sweden
50 metre rifle prone	Gerald Ouellette  Canada	Vasily Borisov  Soviet Union	Stuart Boa  Canada
100 metre running deer	Vitali Romanenko  Soviet Union	Per Olof Sköldberg  Sweden	Vladimir Sevryugin  Soviet Union
Trap	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 (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

External links

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-22. 

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