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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