Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at the Dynamo Shooting Range in Mytishchi in eastern part of Moscow between July 20 and July 26. Seven events were contested. All events were mixed, i.e. open to both men and women.[1]

Events

Seven sets of medals were awarded to 21 athletes in the following events:

Discipline Mixed
Rifle 50 metre rifle three positions
50 metre rifle prone
Pistol 50 metre pistol
25 metre rapid fire pistol
Shotgun Trap
Skeet
Running target 50 metre running target

Medal summary

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)3115
2 Denmark (DEN)1001
 Hungary (HUN)1001
 Italy (ITA)1001
 Romania (ROM)1001
6 East Germany (GDR)0516
7 Sweden (SWE)0112
8 Bulgaria (BUL)0022
9 Austria (AUT)0011
 Cuba (CUB)0011
Totals (10 nations)77721


Mixed events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
rapid fire pistol
 Corneliu Ion (ROM)  Jürgen Wiefel (GDR)  Gerhard Petritsch (AUT)
pistol
 Aleksandr Melentyev (URS)  Harald Vollmar (GDR)  Lyubcho Dyakov (BUL)
rifle prone
 Károly Varga (HUN)  Hellfried Heilfort (GDR)  Petar Zapryanov (BUL)
rifle three positions
 Viktor Vlassov (URS)  Bernd Hartstein (GDR)  Sven Johansson (SWE)
running target
 Igor Sokolov (URS)  Thomas Pfeffer (GDR)  Aleksandr Gazov (URS)
skeet
 Kjeld Rasmussen (DEN)  Lars-Göran Carlsson (SWE)  Roberto Castrillo (CUB)
trap
 Luciano Giovannetti (ITA)  Rustam Yambulatov (URS)  Jörg Damme (GDR)

Participating nations

A total of 239 shooters, 234 men and 5 women, from 38 nations competed at the Moscow Games:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Shooting at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
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