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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 20 and 26 July. Seven events were contested. Alhtough events were mixed, i.e. open to both men and women, all medals were swept by men, and there were only 5 women competing compared to 77 in Los Angeles 1984.[1][2][3]

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

Events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
25 m rapid fire pistol
Corneliu Ion (ROM) Jürgen Wiefel (GDR) Gerhard Petritsch (AUT)
50 m pistol
Aleksandr Melentyev (URS) Harald Vollmar (GDR) Lyubcho Dyakov (BUL)
50 m rifle prone
Károly Varga (HUN) Hellfried Heilfort (GDR) Petar Zapryanov (BUL)
50 m rifle three positions
Viktor Vlasov (URS) Bernd Hartstein (GDR) Sven Johansson (SWE)
50 m 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. ^ a b "Shooting at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  2. ^ https://www.olympic.org/moscow-1980/shooting
  3. ^ https://www.infoplease.com/sports/1980-olympics/shooting

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