| Shooting at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |
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| Dates | 29 November–5 December 1956 |
At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, seven events in shooting were contested, all for men only. They were held between 29 November and 5 December 1956. [1]
| Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics | |
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| Rifle | |
| 300 metre rifle | men |
| 50 m rifle, three positions | men |
| 50 m rifle, prone | men |
| Pistol | |
| 25 m rapid fire pistol | men |
| 50 metre pistol | men |
| Shotgun | |
| Trap | men |
| Running deer | |
| 100 m running deer | men |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| rapid fire pistol | Ștefan Petrescu  Romania | Yevgeny Cherkasov  Soviet Union | Gheorghe Lichiardopol Romania |
| pistol | Pentti Linnosvuo  Finland | Makhmud Umarov Soviet Union | Offutt Pinion  United States |
| 300 meter rifle three positions | Vasily Borisov Soviet Union | Allan Erdman Soviet Union | Vilho Ylönen Finland |
| rifle three positions | Anatoli Bogdanov Soviet Union | Otakar Hořínek  Czechoslovakia | John Sundberg  Sweden |
| rifle prone | Gerald Ouellette  Canada | Vasily Borisov Soviet Union | Stuart Boa Canada |
| running deer | Vitali Romanenko Soviet Union | Per Olof Sköldberg Sweden | Vladimir Sevryugin Soviet Union |
| trap | Galliano Rossini  Italy | Adam Smelczyński  Poland | Alessandro Ciceri Italy |
A total of 156 shooters from 37 nations competed at the Melbourne Games: [1]
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| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 |  Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
 Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
 Romania (ROU) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6 |  Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 |  Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 |  United States (USA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (9 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
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