Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The shooting competitions at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place in Seoul, South Korea. Competitions were held in a total of thirteen events—seven men's events, four women's events, and two events open to both genders.^[1] It was the first games for the 10 metre air pistol events, and the last for the 50 metre running target event, later replaced by 10 metre running target. It was also the first time the Olympic shooting competitions included finals for the top eight (in some cases six) competitors.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	1	6	11
2	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	0	1	3
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	1	3
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
	East Germany (GDR)	1	1	0	2
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	0	2
8	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
10	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
11	Chile (CHI)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
17	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
18	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 nations)		13	13	13	39

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 metre rifle three positions	Malcolm Cooper Great Britain	Alister Allan Great Britain	Kirill Ivanov Soviet Union
50 metre rifle prone	Miroslav Varga Czechoslovakia	Cha Young-chul South Korea	Attila Záhonyi Hungary
10 metre air rifle	Goran Maksimović Yugoslavia	Nicolas Berthelot France	Johann Riederer West Germany
50 metre pistol	Sorin Babii Romania	Ragnar Skanåker Sweden	Igor Basinski Soviet Union
25 metre rapid fire pistol	Afanasijs Kuzmins Soviet Union	Ralf Schumann East Germany	Zoltán Kovács Hungary
10 metre air pistol	Tanyu Kiryakov Bulgaria	Erich Buljung United States	Xu Haifeng China
50 metre running target	Tor Heiestad Norway	Huang Shiping China	Gennadi Avramenko Soviet Union

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 metre rifle three positions	Silvia Sperber West Germany	Vesela Letcheva Bulgaria	Valentina Cherkasova Soviet Union
10 metre air rifle	Irina Shilova Soviet Union	Silvia Sperber West Germany	Anna Maloukhina Soviet Union
25 metre pistol	Nino Salukvadze Soviet Union	Tomoko Hasegawa Japan	Jasna Šekarić Yugoslavia
10 metre air pistol	Jasna Šekarić Yugoslavia	Nino Salukvadze Soviet Union	Marina Dobrantcheva Soviet Union

Mixed events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Trap	Dmitry Monakov Soviet Union	Miloslav Bednařík Czechoslovakia	Frans Peeters Belgium
Skeet	Axel Wegner East Germany	Alfonso de Iruarrizaga Chile	Jorge Guardiola Spain

Participating nations

A total of 396 shooters, 285 men and 111 women, from 66 nations competed at the Seoul Games:^[1]

References

External links

• XXIVth Olympiad Seoul 1988 Official Report – Volume 2 Part 2 (PDF). Retrieved 2008-09-28.