1976 Summer Olympics / Shooting

Shooting at the XXI. Summer Olympics
information
venue	L'Acadie
Competition venue	Center de tir olympique
Nations	60
Athletes	344 (8 women, 336 men)
date	18.-24. July 1976
decisions	7th
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At the XXI. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , seven sports shooting competitions were held. The venue was the Center de tir olympique in L'Acadie (now part of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ). All competitions were open to both sexes and for the first time, Margaret Murdock, a woman won an Olympic medal in shooting.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	GDR	2	2	-	4th
2	United States	2	1	-	3
3	BR Germany	1	1	1	3
	Soviet Union	1	1	1	3
5	Czechoslovakia	1	-	-	1
6th	Netherlands	-	1	-	1
	Portugal	-	1	-	1
8th	Italy	-	-	2	2
	Poland	-	-	2	2
10	Austria	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Small caliber three-position fight 50 m	Lanny Bassham	Margaret Murdock	Werner Seibold
Small bore, lying 50 m	Karlheinz Smieszek	Ulrich Lind	Gennady Luzhchikov
Running target 50 m	Aljaksandr Hasau	Aljaksandr Kedsjarau	Jerzy Greszkiewicz
Free pistol 50 m	Uwe Potteck	Harald Vollmar	Rudolf Dollinger
Rapid fire pistol 25 m	Norbert Klaar	Jürgen Wiefel	Roberto Ferraris
Skeet	Josef Panáček	Eric Swinkels	Wiesław Gawlikowski
Trap	Donald Haldeman	Armando Marques	Ubaldesco Baldi

Results

Small caliber three-position fight 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Lanny Bassham	1162
2	United States	Margaret Murdock	1162
3	FRG	Werner Seibold	1160
4th	YUG	Srećko Pejović	1156
5	SWE	Sven Johansson	1152
6th	PRK	Ri Ho-jun	1152
7th	YUG	Zdravko Milutinović	1152
8th	URS	Alexander Mitrofanov	1151
9	GDR	Bernd Hartstein	1151
10	FRG	Gottfried Kustermann	1151
32	SUI	Charles Jermann	1130
	GDR	Marlies Kanthak
38	SUI	Max Hürzeler	1128
40	AUT	Wolfram Waibel sr.	1123
42	AUT	Gerhard Krimbacher	1117

V. l. To the right: Murdock, Bassham, Seibold

Date: July 21, 1976
57 participants from 34 countries

Small bore, lying 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	FRG	Karlheinz Smieszek	599
2	FRG	Ulrich Lind	597
3	URS	Gennady Luzhchikov	595
4th	SUI	Anton Müller	595
5	ITA	Walter Frescura	594
6th	CAN	Arne Sorensen	593
7th	THE	Henning Clausen	593
8th	YUG	Desanka Pešut	592
12	AUT	Gerhard Krimbacher	591
20th	AUT	Wolfram Waibel sr.	590
37	GDR	Peter Gorewski	587
51	GDR	Marlies Kanthak	584

Date: July 19, 1976
78 participants from 45 countries

Running target 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	URS	Aljaksandr Hasau	579
2	URS	Aljaksandr Kedsjarau	576
3	POLE	Jerzy Greszkiewicz	571
4th	GDR	Thomas Pepper	571
5	FRG	Wolfgang Hamberger	567
6th	COL	Helmut Bellingrodt	567
7th	SWE	Karl-Axel Karlsson	565
8th	United States	Louis Theimer	564
11	FRG	Christoph-Michael Zeisner	561

Date: July 22nd and 23rd, 1976
27 participants from 16 countries

Free pistol 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GDR	Uwe Potteck	573
2	GDR	Harald Vollmar	567
3	AUT	Rudolf Dollinger	562
4th	FRG	Heinz Mertel	560
5	SWE	Ragnar Skanåker	559
6th	ITA	Vincenzo Tondo	559
7th	URS	Grigory Kossych	559
8th	BUL	Dentscho Denew	567
18th	SUI	Roman Burkard	550
24	FRG	Gerhard Beyer	547
30th	AUT	Hubert Garschall	543

Date: July 18, 1976
47 participants from 31 countries

Rapid fire pistol 25 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GDR	Norbert Klaar	597
2	GDR	Jürgen Wiefel	596
3	ITA	Roberto Ferraris	595
4th	URS	Afanasijs Kuzmins	595
5	ROME	Corneliu Ion	595
6th	FRG	Erwin Glock	594
7th	AUT	Gerhard Petritsch	594
8th	ROME	Marin Stan	594
9	FRG	Werner Beier	593
10	SUI	Paul Buser	592
48	LUX	Michel Braun	445

Date: July 22nd and 23rd, 1976
48 participants from 30 countries

Skeet

space	country	athlete	Points
1	TCH	Josef Panáček	198
2	NED	Eric Swinkels	198
3	POLE	Wiesław Gawlikowski	196
4th	GDR	Klaus Reschke	196
5	AUT	Franz Schitzhofer	195
6th	GUA	Edgardo Zachrisson	194
7th	ESP	Juan Ávalos	194
8th	FRA	Jean-François Petitpied	194
9	FRG	Claus Koch	194
26th	GDR	Dieter Monien	190
50	FRG	Ernst Drexler	181

Date: July 22nd to 24th, 1976
68 participants from 39 countries

Trap

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Donald Haldeman	190
2	POR	Armando Marques	189
3	ITA	Ubaldesco Baldi	189
4th	GDR	Burckhardt Hoppe	186
5	URS	Alexander Androshkin	185
6th	POLE	Adam Smelczyński	183
7th	CAN	John Primrose	183
8th	FRA	Bernard Blondeau	182
16	AUT	Josef Meixner	178
25th	AUT	Nikolaus Reinprecht	173

Date: July 18-20, 1976
44 participants from 30 countries

Web links

• Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1976 Summer Games (PDF, 22.7 MB)