Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Shooting
ISSF shooting events
The International Shooting Sport Federation recognizes several shooting events, some of which have Olympic status. They are divided into four disciplines: rifle, pistol, shotgun and running target....

at the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...

in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

comprised seven events, all open to both men and women. For the first time ever, a woman won an Olympic medal in shooting: Margaret Murdock

Margaret Murdock

Margaret Thompson Murdock is an American shooter and United States Army officer. She won a varsity letter at Kansas State by competing on the men’s rifle team. Furthermore, she was the 1966 World Champion in Women's Standard Rifle. She was also the first woman on the U.S. Olympic shooting team and...

caught the silver in the Three positions

Three positions

International Rifle events in Three positions are conducted with an equal number of shots fired from the Prone, the Standing and the Kneeling positions, always in that order....

event.

Medal count

Pos	Country				Total
1	East Germany East Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics Athletes from East Germany competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 267 competitors, 154 men and 113 women, took part in 139 events in 17 sports.-Medalists:-Athletics:Men's Marathon...	2	2	0	4
2	United States United States at the 1976 Summer Olympics The United States competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 396 competitors, 278 men and 118 women, took part in 189 events in 19 sports.-Medalists:...	2	1	0	3
3	Soviet Union	1	1	1	3
3	West Germany West Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics West Germany competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 290 competitors, 233 men and 57 women, took part in 163 events in 20 sports.-Medalists:...	1	1	1	3
5	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia at the 1976 Summer Olympics Czechoslovakia competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 162 competitors, 124 men and 38 women, took part in 79 events in 16 sports.-Medalists:...	1	0	0	1
6	Netherlands Netherlands at the 1976 Summer Olympics The Netherlands competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.-Medalists:The Netherlands finished in 29th position in the final medal rankings, with two silver medals and three bronze medals.- Silver:...	0	1	0	1
6	Portugal Portugal at the 1976 Summer Olympics Portugal competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.A delegation of nineteen competitors participated in six sports, conquering, for the first time, two silver medals in one Olympiad and one olympic medal in the athletics...	0	1	0	1
8	Italy Italy at the 1976 Summer Olympics Italy competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 210 competitors, 183 men and 27 women, took part in 122 events in 20 sports.- Gold:* Klaus Dibiasi — Diving, Men's Platform...	0	0	2	2
8	Poland Poland at the 1976 Summer Olympics Poland competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 207 competitors, 180 men and 27 women, took part in 116 events in 18 sports.- Gold:* Irena Szewińska — Athletics, Women's 400 metres* Jacek Wszola — Athletics, Men's High Jump...	0	0	2	2
9	Austria Austria at the 1976 Summer Olympics Austria competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 60 competitors, 54 men and 6 women, took part in 44 events in 15 sports.-Medalists:-Archery:...	0	0	1	1

Medalists by event

Pos	\|Competitor
50 m Rifle 50 metre rifle three positions 50 metre rifle three positions is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 metre rifle three positions. It consists of the prone, standing and kneeling positions, fired in that order, with 3×40 shots for men and 3×20 shots for women... - Three positions Three positions International Rifle events in Three positions are conducted with an equal number of shots fired from the Prone, the Standing and the Kneeling positions, always in that order....
	Lanny Bassham Lanny Bassham Lanny Robert Bassham is an American sports shooter who competed and won a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and also obtained silver in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1969, where he had participated in the ROTC program...		1162
	Margaret Murdock Margaret Murdock Margaret Thompson Murdock is an American shooter and United States Army officer. She won a varsity letter at Kansas State by competing on the men’s rifle team. Furthermore, she was the 1966 World Champion in Women's Standard Rifle. She was also the first woman on the U.S. Olympic shooting team and...		1162
	Werner Seibold		1160
50 m Rifle 50 metre rifle prone 50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle caliber rifle... - Prone position Prone position The term means to lie on bed or ground in a position with chest downwards and back upwards.-Etymology :The word "prone," meaning "naturally inclined to something, apt, liable," has been recorded in English since 1382; the meaning "lying face-down" was first recorded in 1578, but is also referred to...
	Karlheinz Smieszek Karlheinz Smieszek Karlheinz Smieszek is a sports shooter and Olympic Champion for West Germany. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.-References:...		599
	Ulrich Lind		597
	Gennadi Lushikov		595
50 m Pistol 50 m Pistol 50 metre pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called free pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting types, dating back to the 19th century and only having seen marginal rule changes since...
	Uwe Potteck Uwe Potteck Uwe Potteck is a German sports shooter and Olympic champion. He won gold medal in the 50 metre pistol at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal. At the Olympics in 1980 he placed 16th, and in 1988 he placed ninth.-References:...		573
	Harald Vollmar		567
	Rudolf Dollinger		562
25 m Rapid Fire Pistol 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol 25 metre rapid fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events. The event has been a part of the Olympic program ever since the beginning in 1896, although its rules changed greatly before World War II, after which they were only slightly changed until the two major revisions of 1989 and 2005...
	Norbert Klaar Norbert Klaar Norbert Klaar is a German sports shooter and Olympic champion. He won gold medal in the 25 metre rapid fire pistol at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal.-References:...		597
	Jürgen Wiefel		596
	Roberto Ferraris		595
Trap Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Trap The trap competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics was held on July 18-20 in Montreal, Canada.-Results:...
	Donald Haldeman Donald Haldeman Donald Stanley Haldeman is an American sports shooter from Souderton, Pennsylvania. He competed and won a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics, the third American shooter to win Olympic gold in Trapshooting.-References:...		190
	Armando Silva		189
	Ubaldesco Baldi		189
Skeet Olympic Skeet Skeet is a variant of skeet shooting, and the specific variant used in the Olympic Games. Two throwing machines at different heights launch a series of 25 targets in a specific order, some as singles and some as doubles, with the shooter having a fixed position between them. Men's competitions...
	Josef Panáček Josef Panácek Josef Panáček is a former Czechoslovak sport shooter and Olympic Champion. He won Gold medal in skeet shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.-References:...	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...	198
	Eric Swinkels Eric Swinkels Eric Swinkels is a Dutch sports shooter and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal in Skeet Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He competed in six different Olympic competitions, beginning in 1972 and ending in 1996.-References:...		198
	Wiesław Gawlikowski		196
50 m Running Target 50 m Running Target 50 metre running target or 50 metre running boar is an ISSF shooting event, shot with a .22-calibre rifle at a target depicting a boar moving sideways across a 10 metre wide opening. It was devised as a replacement for 100 metre running deer in the 1960s and made its way into the Olympic programme...
	Alexander Gazov		579
	Alexander Kediarov		576
	Jerzy Greszkiewicz		571

Medal count

Medalists by event

See also