1968 Summer Olympics / Shooting

Shooting at the XIX. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Mexico city
Competition venue	Vicente Suárez shooting range , Campo Militar 1
Nations	62
Athletes	351 (3 women, 348 men)
date	18.-23. October 1968
decisions	7th
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At the XIX. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , seven sports shooting competitions were held. The venue was the Vicente Suárez shooting range in Campo Militar 1 . On the program was the skeet, an additional clay pigeon discipline. For the first time ever, women and men competed in Olympic shooting competitions.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	2	1	2	5
2	United States	1	2	-	3
3	BR Germany	1	1	1	3
4th	Great Britain	1	-	-	1
	Poland	1	-	-	1
	Czechoslovakia	1	-	-	1
7th	Italy	-	1	-	1
	Romania	-	1	-	1
	Hungary	-	1	-	1
10	GDR	-	-	2	2
10	New Zealand	-	-	1	1
	Switzerland	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Free rifle three position fight 300 m	Gary Anderson	Valentin Kornew	Kurt Mueller
Small caliber three-position fight 50 m	Bernd Klingner	John Writer	Vitaly Parchimovich
Small bore, lying 50 m	Jan Kůrka	László Hammerl	Ian Ballinger
Free pistol 50 m	Grigory Kossych	Heinz Mertel	Harald Vollmar
Rapid fire pistol 25 m	Józef Zapędzki	Marcel Roşca	Renart Suleimanov
Skeet	Yevgeny Petrov	Romano Garagnani	Konrad Wirnhier
Trap	John Braithwaite	Thomas Garrigus	Kurt Czekalla

Results

Free rifle three position fight 300 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Gary Anderson	1157 ( OR )
2	URS	Valentin Kornew	1151
3	SUI	Kurt Mueller	1148
4th	URS	Shota Kweliashvili	1142
5	SUI	Erwin Vogt	1140
6th	GDR	Hartmut Somme	1140
7th	United States	John Foster	1140
8th	ROME	Petre Șandor	1138
23	GDR	Uto Wunderlich	1107

Date: October 23, 1968
30 participants from 16 countries

Small caliber three-position fight 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	FRG	Bernd Klingner	1157
2	United States	John Writer	1156
3	URS	Vitaly Parchimovich	1154
4th	United States	John Foster	1153
5	MEX	José González	1152
6th	CAN	Gerald Ouellette	1151
7th	FRG	Peter Kohnke	1151
8th	SUI	Kurt Mueller	1151
14th	AUT	Guido Loacker	1146
17th	GDR	Uto Wunderlich	1145
26th	GDR	Hartmut Sommer	1138
30th	SUI	Peter Ruch	1135
32	AUT	Wolfram Waibel sr.	1133

Date: October 21, 1964
62 participants from 35 countries

Small bore, lying 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	TCH	Jan Kůrka	598 ( WR )
2	HUN	László Hammerl	598 ( WR )
3	NZL	Ian Ballinger	597
4th	ROME	Nicolae Rotaru	597
5	GBR	John Palin	596
6th	FRA	Jean-Luc Loret	596
7th	NOR	Bjørn Bakken	595
8th	United States	Gary Anderson	595
13	FRG	Karl Wenk	594
23	SUI	Hansruedi Schafroth	593
33	FRG	Klaus Zähringer	591
35	AUT	Friedrich Schattleitner	590
54	GDR	Hartmut Sommer	587
58	SUI	Hans Sinniger	586

Date: October 19, 1964
86 participants from 46 countries

Free pistol 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	URS	Grigory Kossych	562 ( OR )
2	FRG	Heinz Mertel	562 ( OR )
3	GDR	Harald Vollmar	560
4th	United States	Arnold Vitarbo	559
5	POLE	Paweł Małek	556
6th	GDR	Helmut Artelt	555
7th	CUB	Nelson Oñate	555
8th	ROME	Neagu Bratu	554
12	SUI	Ernst Stoll	550
18th	AUT	Hubert Garschall	547
23	SUI	Albert Spani	546
30th	LUX	Nico Klein	543
65	FRG	Kurt Meyer	506

Date: October 18, 1968
69 participants from 42 countries

Rapid fire pistol 25 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	POLE	Józef Zapędzki	593 ( OR )
2	ROME	Marcel Roşca	591
3	URS	Renart Suleimanov	591
4th	GDR	Christian Düring	591
5	FRG	Erich Masurat	590
6th	GDR	Gerhard Dommrich	589
7th	TCH	Lubomír Nácovský	588
8th	ITA	Giovanni Liverzani	588
9	FRG	Hans Standl	587
30th	AUT	Hubert Garschall	579
40	SUI	Kurt Klingler	575
42	SUI	Josef Ziltener	572

Date: October 22nd and 23rd, 1968
56 participants from 34 countries

Skeet

space	country	athlete	Points
1	URS	Yevgeny Petrov	198 ( OR )
2	ITA	Romano Garagnani	198 ( OR )
3	FRG	Konrad Wirnhier	198 ( OR )
4th	URS	Yuri Zuranow	196
5	BY	Pedro Gianella	194
6th	CHI	Nicolas Atalah	194
7th	CHI	Jorge Jottar	194
8th	GRE	Panagiotis Xanthakos	194
21st	FRG	Karl Meyer zu Hölsen	189
32	SUI	Paul Vittet	186

Date: October 21 and 22, 1968
52 participants from 30 countries

Trap

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GBR	John Braithwaite	198
2	United States	Thomas Garrigus	196
3	GDR	Kurt Czekalla	196
4th	URS	Pāvels Seničevs	196
5	FRA	Pierre Candelo	195
6th	POLE	Adam Smelczyński	195
7th	URS	Alexander Alipov	195
8th	CAN	John Primrose	194
23	GDR	Rudolf Hager	190
29	FRG	Werner Buehse	189
37	AUT	Josef Meixner	187
38	FRG	Erich Gehmann	187

Date: October 18 and 19, 1968
55 participants from 34 countries

The silver medal was awarded after a jump-off between Thomas Garrigus, Kurt Czekalla and Pāvels Seničevs.

Web links

• Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1968 Summer Games (PDF, 11.0 MB)