1956 Summer Olympics / Shooting
Shooting at the XVI. Olympic Games |
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venue | Williamstown , Laverton |
Competition venue | Merrett Rifle Range , RAAF Williams Laverton Base |
Nations | 37 |
Athletes | 156 (156 men) |
date | November 29 - December 5, 1956 |
decisions | 7th |
← Helsinki 1952 |
At the XVI. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne , seven sports shooting competitions were held. The venue was a shooting range in the Williamstown district (rifle and pistol competitions) and the Royal Australian Air Force air base in the Laverton district (shotgun competitions).
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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1 | Soviet Union | 3 | 4th | 1 | 8th |
2 | Finland | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
Italy | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | |
Canada | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | |
Romania | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | |
6th | Sweden | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
7th | Poland | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Czechoslovakia | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
9 | United States | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Free rifle three position fight 300 m | Vasily Borisov | Allan Erdman | Vilho Ylönen |
Small caliber three-position fight 50 m | Anatoly Bogdanov | Otakar Hořínek | John Sundberg |
Small bore, lying 50 m | Gerald Ouellette | Vasily Borisov | Gilmour Boa |
Running deer 100 m | Vitaly Romanenko | Olof Skoldberg | Vladimir Sevryugin |
Free pistol 50 m | Pentti Linnosvuo | Machmud Umarov | Offutt Pinion |
Rapid fire pistol 25 m | Ștefan Petrescu | Yevgeny Cherkassov | Gheorghe Lichiardopol |
Clay pigeon shooting | Galliano Rossini | Adam Smelczyński | Alessandro Ciceri |
Results
Free rifle three position fight 300 m
space | country | athlete | Points |
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1 | URS | Vasily Borisov | 1138 |
2 | URS | Allan Erdman | 1137 |
3 | FIN | Vilho Ylönen | 1128 |
4th | FIN | Jorma Taitto | 1120 |
5 | ROME | Constantin Antonescu | 1101 |
6th | SWE | John Sundberg | 1094 |
7th | SWE | Kvissberg is different | 1093 |
8th | United States | James Smith | 1082 |
Date: December 1st, 1956
20 participants from 14 countries
Small caliber three-position fight 50 m
space | country | athlete | Points |
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1 | URS | Anatoly Bogdanov | 1172 |
2 | TCH | Otakar Hořínek | 1172 |
3 | SWE | John Sundberg | 1167 |
4th | URS | Vasily Borisov | 1163 |
5 | FIN | Vilho Ylönen | 1161 |
6th | CAN | Gilmour Boa | 1159 |
7th | ROME | Iosif Sîrbu | 1157 |
8th | SWE | Kvissberg is different | 1156 |
9 | EUA | Rudolf Sigl | 1155 |
11 | EUA | Albert Sigl | 1154 |
Date: December 4, 1956
44 participants from 27 countries
Small bore, lying 50 m
space | country | athlete | Points |
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1 | CAN | Gerald Ouellette | 600 |
2 | URS | Vasily Borisov | 599 |
3 | CAN | Gilmour Boa | 598 |
4th | TCH | Otakar Hořínek | 598 |
5 | ROME | Iosif Sîrbu | 598 |
6th | HUN | Sándor Krebs | 598 |
7th | NOR | Erling Kongshaug | 598 |
8th | BRA | Severino Moreira | 597 |
11 | EUA | Rudolf Sigl | 596 |
27 | EUA | Albert Sigl | 593 |
Date: December 5, 1956
44 participants from 25 countries
Running deer 100 m
space | country | athlete | Points |
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1 | URS | Vitaly Romanenko | 441 |
2 | SWE | Olof Skoldberg | 432 |
3 | URS | Vladimir Sevryugin | 429 |
4th | HUN | Miklós Kovács | 417 |
5 | HUN | Miklós Kocsis | 416 |
6th | NOR | Rolf Bergersen | 409 |
7th | SWE | Benets Austrin | 405 |
8th | NOR | John Larsen | 390 |
Date: December 3rd to 4th, 1956
11 participants from 6 countries
Free pistol 50 m
space | country | athlete | Points |
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1 | FIN | Pentti Linnosvuo | 556 |
2 | URS | Machmud Umarov | 556 |
3 | United States | Offutt Pinion | 551 |
4th | JPN | Choji Hosaka | 550 |
5 | URS | Anton Yasynskyi | 550 |
6th | SWE | Torsten Ullman | 549 |
7th | SWE | Åke Lindblom | 542 |
8th | OUT | Len Tolhurst | 541 |
Date: November 30, 1956
33 participants from 22 countries
Rapid fire pistol 25 m
space | country | athlete | Points |
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1 | ROME | Ștefan Petrescu | 587 |
2 | URS | Yevgeny Cherkassov | 585 |
3 | ROME | Gheorghe Lichiardopol | 581 |
4th | FIN | Pentti Linnosvuo | 581 |
5 | ARG | Oscar Cervo | 580 |
6th | HUN | Szilárd Kun | 578 |
7th | FIN | Kalle Sievänen | 576 |
8th | HUN | Károly Takács | 575 |
Date: 4th to 5th December 1956
35 participants from 22 countries
Clay pigeon shooting
space | country | athlete | Points |
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1 | ITA | Galliano Rossini | 195 |
2 | POLE | Adam Smelczyński | 190 |
3 | ITA | Alessandro Ciceri | 188 |
4th | URS | Nikolai Mogilewski | 188 |
5 | URS | Yuri Nikandrov | 188 |
6th | TCH | František Čapek | 187 |
7th | SWE | Knut Holmqvist | 178 |
8th | SWE | Hans Liljedahl | 177 |
Date: November 29th to December 1st, 1956
32 participants from 18 countries
Web links
Commons : Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official report of the 1956 Summer Games (PDF, 32.5 MB)