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 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics | |
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Rifle | |
300 m free rifle three positions | mixed |
50 m rifle prone | mixed |
50 m rifle three positions | mixed |
Pistol | |
50 m pistol | mixed |
25 m rapid fire pistol | mixed |
Shotgun | |
Trap | mixed |
Skeet | mixed |
Running target | |
50 m running target | mixed |
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
[edit]The format was: 50 metres; 30 shots at each speed, slow and fast. 60 shots in total, for a possible score of 600.
References
[edit]- ^ 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.