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


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	1	5
2	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROM)	1	0	0	1
6	East Germany (GDR)	0	5	1	6
7	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	2	2
9	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
9	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		7	7	7	21

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]

Andorra (2)
Australia (2)
Austria (8)
Belgium (3)
Brazil (5)
Bulgaria (11)
Costa Rica (6)
Cuba (5)
Czechoslovakia (11)
Denmark (4)

East Germany (13)
Finland (9)
Greece (3)
Guatemala (5)
Hungary (14)
India (4)
Ireland (4)
Italy (10)
Jordan (4)

Laos (6)
Luxembourg (1)
Malta (2)
Mexico (2)
Mongolia (2)
Netherlands (4)
North Korea (11)
Peru (7)
Poland (12)
Romania (5)

San Marino (10)
Soviet Union (14)
Spain (8)
Sweden (8)
Syria (4)
Venezuela (2)
Vietnam (7)
Yugoslavia (3)
Zimbabwe (8)

References

"Shooting at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
https://www.olympic.org/moscow-1980/shooting
https://www.infoplease.com/sports/1980-olympics/shooting

External links

IOC Site on 1980 Summer Olympics

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[SR-1] "Shooting at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2020.

[2] ttps://www.olympic.org/moscow-1980/shooting

[3] ttps://www.infoplease.com/sports/1980-olympics/shooting

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