Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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 Games of the XVI Olympiad
Dates	29 November–5 December 1956
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Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
rapid fire pistol details	Ștefan Petrescu  Romania	Yevgeny Cherkasov  Soviet Union	Gheorghe Lichiardopol  Romania
pistol details	Pentti Linnosvuo  Finland	Makhmud Umarov  Soviet Union	Offutt Pinion  United States
300 meter rifle three positions details	Vasily Borisov  Soviet Union	Allan Erdman  Soviet Union	Vilho Ylönen  Finland
rifle three positions details	Anatoli Bogdanov  Soviet Union	Otakar Hořínek  Czechoslovakia	John Sundberg  Sweden
rifle prone details	Gerald Ouellette  Canada	Vasily Borisov  Soviet Union	Stuart Boa  Canada
running deer details	Vitali Romanenko  Soviet Union	Per Olof Sköldberg  Sweden	Vladimir Sevryugin  Soviet Union
trap details	Galliano Rossini  Italy	Adam Smelczyński  Poland	Alessandro Ciceri  Italy

Participating nations

A total of 156 shooters from 37 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:^[1]

•  Argentina (4)
•  Australia (12)
•  Belgium (2)
•  Brazil (4)
•  Canada (5)
•  Chile (3)
•  Republic of China (1)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Czechoslovakia (4)
•  Denmark (2)
•  Finland (4)
•  France (5)
•  United Team of Germany (2)
•  Great Britain (6)
•  Greece (2)
•  Hungary (5)
•  Indonesia (1)
•  India (2)
•  Italy (5)
•  Japan (6)
•  Kenya (2)
•  South Korea (2)
•  Malaya (3)
•  Mexico (3)
•  Norway (5)
•  Pakistan (2)
•  Peru (8)
•  Philippines (5)
•  Poland (2)
•  Puerto Rico (3)
•  Romania (4)
•  South Africa (2)
•  Soviet Union (11)
•  Sweden (8)
•  United States (8)
•  Venezuela (9)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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