Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Shooting
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Shooting; at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Dates	29 November–5 December 1956

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]

Medal summary

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

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


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
7	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
9	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21

^ ^a ^b "Shooting at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games". Sports Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2015.

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