Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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Dates	3-10 September 1960
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Last updated March 15, 2025

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
rapid fire pistol details	William McMillan (USA)	587	Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN)	587	Aleksandr Zabelin (URS)	587
pistol details	Aleksey Gushchin (URS)	560	Makhmud Umarov (URS)	552	Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (JPN)	552
300 metre rifle, three positions details	Hubert Hammerer Austria	1129	Hans Rudolf Spillmann Switzerland	1127	Vasily Borisov Soviet Union	1127
rifle, three positions details	Viktor Shamburkin Soviet Union	1149	Marat Niyazov Soviet Union	1145	Klaus Zähringer United Team of Germany	1139
rifle, prone details	Peter Kohnke United Team of Germany	590	James Enoch Hill United States	589	Enrico Forcella Venezuela	587
trap details	Ion Dumitrescu Romania	192	Galliano Rossini Italy	191	Sergei Kalinin Soviet Union	190

Participating nations

A total of 313 shooters from 59 nations competed at the Rome Games:^[1]

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	2	2	3	7
2	United States (USA)	1	1	0	2
3	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	0	1	2
4	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
4	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
6	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
9	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
9	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		6	6	6	18

References

1 2 "Shooting at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2015.

External links

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Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Rifle
300 m rifle three positions	men
50 m rifle three positions	men
50 m rifle prone	men
Pistol
25 m rapid fire pistol	men
50 m pistol	men
Shotgun
Trap	men
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