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Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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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. This was the last Olympics where 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

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
 Cuba (CUB) 0 0 1 1
Total 7 7 7 21

Mixed events

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

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. Retrieved 15 December 2015.