Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle prone		mixed
50 m rifle three positions		mixed
Pistol
50 m free pistol		mixed
25 m rapid fire pistol		mixed
Shotgun
Trap		mixed
Skeet		mixed
Running target
50 m running target		mixed

Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal 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 caught the silver in the three positions event.^[1]

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
free pistol	Uwe Potteck (GDR)	Harald Vollmar (GDR)	Rudolf Dollinger (AUT)
rapid fire pistol	Norbert Klaar (GDR)	Jürgen Wiefel (GDR)	Roberto Ferraris (ITA)
running target	Aleksandr Gazov (URS)	Aleksandr Kediarov (URS)	Jerzy Greszkiewicz (POL)
rifle prone	Karlheinz Smieszek (FRG)	Ulrich Lind (FRG)	Gennadi Lushikov (URS)
rifle three positions	Lanny Bassham (USA)	Margaret Murdock (USA)	Werner Seibold (FRG)
Trap	Donald Haldeman (USA)	Armando Marques (POR)	Ubaldesco Baldi (ITA)
Skeet	Josef Panáček (TCH)	Eric Swinkels (NED)	Wiesław Gawlikowski (POL)

A total of 344 shooters, 393 men and 4 women, from 60 nations competed at the Montreal Games:^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	2	2	0	4
2	United States	2	1	0	3
3	Soviet Union	1	1	1	3
3	West Germany	1	1	1	3
5	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
6	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
6	Portugal	0	1	0	1
8	Italy	0	0	2	2
8	Poland	0	0	2	2
9	Austria	0	0	1	1

1 2 "Shooting at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games". Sports Reference. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

Events at the 1976 Summer Olympics (Montreal)

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