Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, seven events in shooting were contested, all for men only.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
25 m rapid fire pistol	Stefan Petrescu Romania (ROM)	Yevgeni Cherkasov Soviet Union (URS)	Gheorghe Lichiardopol Romania (ROM)
50 m pistol	Pentti Linnosvuo Finland (FIN)	Makhmud Umarov Soviet Union (URS)	Offutt Pinion United States (USA)
50 m rifle prone	Gerald Ouellette Canada (CAN)	Vasili Borisov Soviet Union (URS)	Stuart Boa Canada (CAN)
50 m rifle three positions	Anatoli Bogdanov Soviet Union (URS)	Otakar Hořínek Czechoslovakia (TCH)	John Sundberg Sweden (SWE)
300 m rifle three positions	Vasili Borisov Soviet Union (URS)	Allan Erdman Soviet Union (URS)	Vilho Ylönen Finland (FIN)
100 m running deer	Vitali Romanenko Soviet Union (URS)	Olof Sköldberg Sweden (SWE)	Vladimir Sevryugin Soviet Union (URS)
Trap	Galliano Rossini Italy (ITA)	Adam Smelczyński Poland (POL)	Alessandro Ciceri Italy (ITA)

[edit] 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 (ROM)	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

[edit] References

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

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