Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre running target
50 metre running target at the Games of the XX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Schießanlage | ||||||||||||
Date | August 31 & September 1, 1972 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 28 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning score | 569 WR | ||||||||||||
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The following are the results of the 50 metre running target competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Various types of a running target event had been held on and off throughout the history of the Olympics. It was last in the Olympics in 1956 where it was a 100 metre running deer event. This event often consisted as a running deer target at several speeds and distances, but at these games it was contested as a running boar shot at 50 metres at two speeds. The gold medal went to Yakiv Zheleznyak of the Soviet Union. He broke the world record in event with a score of 569. The silver medal went to Helmut Bellingrodt of Colombia this was the first Olympic medal won by a Colombian athlete.[1]
Final
The format was: 50 metres; 30 shots at each speed, slow and fast. 60 shots in total, for a possible score of 600.
Rank | Name | Nationality | slow run | fast run | Total |
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Yakiv Zheleznyak | Soviet Union | 289 | 280 | 569 WR | |
Helmut Bellingrodt | Colombia | 286 | 279 | 565 | |
John Kynoch | Great Britain | 284 | 278 | 562 | |
4 | Valerii Postoyanov | Soviet Union | 286 | 274 | 560 |
5 | Christoph-Michael Zeisner | West Germany | 276 | 278 | 554 |
6 | Göte Gåård | Sweden | 274 | 279 | 553 |
7 | Günther Danne | West Germany | 276 | 275 | 551 |
8 | Karl-Axel Karlsson | Sweden | 281 | 270 | 551 |
9 | Edmund Moeller | United States | 285 | 265 | 550 |
10 | Giovanni Mezzani | Italy | 277 | 271 | 548 |
11 | Enrique Rebora | Argentina | 279 | 268 | 547 |
12 | John H. Larsen Jr. | Norway | 278 | 268 | 546 |
13 | Gyula Szabó | Hungary | 276 | 269 | 545 |
14 | Pekka Suomela | Finland | 278 | 267 | 545 |
15 | Hanspeter Bellingrodt | Colombia | 280 | 265 | 545 |
16 | Roger Renaux | France | 277 | 267 | 544 |
17 | Zygmunt Bogdziewicz | Poland | 276 | 265 | 541 |
18 | Pedro Ramírez | Puerto Rico | 275 | 265 | 540 |
19 | Charles Davis | United States | 276 | 264 | 540 |
20 | Kim Song-bok | North Korea | 268 | 268 | 536 |
21 | Roman Kuzior | Poland | 272 | 264 | 536 |
22 | István Jenei | Hungary | 276 | 255 | 531 |
23 | Paavo Mikkonen | Finland | 279 | 251 | 530 |
24 | John Anthony | Great Britain | 273 | 254 | 527 |
25 | Tore Skau | Norway | 268 | 258 | 526 |
26 | Graeme McIntyre | New Zealand | 270 | 253 | 523 |
27 | Giancarlo Cecconi | Italy | 262 | 258 | 520 |
28 | Frank Tossas | Puerto Rico | 269 | 186 | 455 |
- | Enrique Soto | Mexico | DNS | ||
- | Dok Man-Oh | North Korea | DNS |
References
- ^ Sports Reference. "Shooting at the 1972 München Summer Games: Mixed Running Target, 50 metres". Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
External links
- Official report pg. 233