Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome comprised six events, all for men only. They were held between 3 and 10 September 1960.[1]

Shooting at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Pistol
25 m rapid fire pistol men
50 m pistol men
Rifle
300 m rifle three positions   men  
50 m rifle three positions men
50 m rifle prone men
Shotgun
Trap men

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
rapid fire pistol
  William McMillan (USA) 587  Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN) 587  Aleksandr Zabelin (URS) 587
pistol
  Aleksey Gushchin (URS) 560  Makhmud Umarov (URS) 552  Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (JPN) 552
300 metre rifle, three positions
 Hubert Hammerer
 Austria 		1129 Hans Rudolf Spillmann
 Switzerland 		1127 Vasily Borisov
 Soviet Union 		1127
50 metre rifle, three positions
 Viktor Shamburkin
 Soviet Union 		1149 Marat Niyazov
 Soviet Union 		1145 Klaus Zähringer
 United Team of Germany 		1139
rifle, prone
 Peter Kohnke
 United Team of Germany 		590 James Enoch Hill
 United States 		589 Enrico Forcella
 Venezuela 		587
Trap
 Ion Dumitrescu
 Romania 		192 Galliano Rossini
 Italy 		191 Sergei Kalinin
 Soviet Union 		190

Participating nations

A total of 313 shooters from 59 nations competed at the Rome Games:[1]

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Soviet Union (URS) 2 2 3 7
2  United States (USA) 1 1 0 2
3  United Team of Germany (EUA) 1 0 1 2
4  Austria (AUT) 1 0 0 1
 Romania (ROU) 1 0 0 1
6  Finland (FIN) 0 1 0 1
 Italy (ITA) 0 1 0 1
 Switzerland (SUI) 0 1 0 1
9  Japan (JPN) 0 0 1 1
 Venezuela (VEN) 0 0 1 1

References

  1. 1 2 "Shooting at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference.com. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
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