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Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Shooting at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Dates	29 November–5 December 1956
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At the 1956 Summer OlympicsinMelbourne, seven events in shooting were contested, all for men only. They were held between 29 November and 5 December 1956.^[1]

Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Rifle
300 metre rifle	men
50 m rifle, three positions	men
50 m rifle, prone	men
Pistol
25 m rapid fire pistol	men
50 metre pistol	men
Shotgun
Trap	men
Running deer
100 m running deer	men
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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
rapid fire pistol details	Ștefan Petrescu  Romania	Yevgeny Cherkasov  Soviet Union	Gheorghe Lichiardopol  Romania
pistol details	Pentti Linnosvuo  Finland	Makhmud Umarov  Soviet Union	Offutt Pinion  United States
300 meter rifle three positions details	Vasily Borisov  Soviet Union	Allan Erdman  Soviet Union	Vilho Ylönen  Finland
rifle three positions details	Anatoli Bogdanov  Soviet Union	Otakar Hořínek  Czechoslovakia	John Sundberg  Sweden
rifle prone details	Gerald Ouellette  Canada	Vasily Borisov  Soviet Union	Stuart Boa  Canada
running deer details	Vitali Romanenko  Soviet Union	Per Olof Sköldberg  Sweden	Vladimir Sevryugin  Soviet Union
trap details	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
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
9	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 22 December 2006.