Shooting sports - Olympic Games - 1956

Olympic Games - Results Men 1956

Australia - Melbourne - 30 November 1956 - 5 December 1956

Men's 50m pistol - 30 November 1956

1	Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN)	556
2	Makhmud Umarov (URS)	556
3	Offutt Pinion (USA)	551
4	Choji Hosaka (JPN)	550
5	Anton Yasynskiy (URS)	550
6	Torsten Ullman (SWE)	549
7	Ake Lindblom (SWE)	542
8	Len Tolhurst (AUS)	541
9	Claudio Fiorentini (ITA)	540
10	Frederick Cooper (GBR)	539
11	Joe Benner (USA)	537
12	Frantisek Maxa (CZE)	536
13	James Zavitz (CAN)	536
14	Enrique Hannaberg (COL)	534
15	Raúl Ibarra (MEX)	533
16	Kalle Sievänen (FIN)	526
17	Yoshihide Ueda (JPN)	526
18	Alberto Martijena (ARG)	526
19	Ignacio Cruzat (CHI)	524
20	Charles Des Jammonières (FRA)	522
21	Rigoberto Fontt (CHI)	521
22	Antonio Vita (PER)	519
23	Marcel Lafortune (BEL)	518
24	Hector De Lima Polanco (VEN)	511
25	José Bernal (VEN)	508
26	Rodolfo Flores (MEX)	507
27	Rodney Johnson (AUS)	506
28	Henry Steele (GBR)	503
29	Francisco Otayza (PER)	503
30	Kim Yun-Gi (KOR)	463
31	Zafar Ahmed Muhammad (PAK)	460
32	Ricardo Hizon (PHI)	456
33	Joseph Chong (MAL)	438

Men's Trap - 1 December 1956

1	Galliano Rossini (ITA)	195
2	Adam Smelczynski (POL)	190
3	Alessandro Ciceri (ITA)	188
4	Nikolay Mogilevsky (URS)	188
5	Yury Nikandrov (URS)	188
6	Frantisek Capek (CZE)	187
7	Knut Holmqvist (SWE)	178
8	Hans Liljedahl (SWE)	177
9	John Bryant (AUS)	176
10	Robert Pignard (FRA)	176
11	Hans Aasnaes (NOR)	176
12	Ioannis Koutsis (GRE)	175
13	Franco Mignini (VEN)	172
14	Michel Prévost (FRA)	171
15	Zygmunt Kiszkurno (POL)	170
16	Juan Gindre (ARG)	170
17	Earl Caldwell (CAN)	169
18	Joe Wheater (GBR)	168
19	Raúl Olivo (VEN)	165
20	Clement Mudford (AUS)	164
21	Ernest Fear (GBR)	162
22	William Peters (COL)	155
23	Tokusaburo Iwata (JPN)	155
24	Enrique Beech (PHI)	152
25	Igor Treybal (CZE)	148
26	Federico Valle (PUR)	147
27	León Bozzi (ARG)	146
28	Moe Fu Kiat (MAL)	145
29	Liew Foh Sin (MAL)	140
30	Ujitoshi Konomi (JPN)	140
31	Fernando Jiménez (PUR)	126
32	Frank Opsal (CAN)	118

Men's 300m free rifle 3 positions - 1 December 1956

1	Vasily Borisov (URS)	1,138
2	Allan Erdman (URS)	1,137
3	Vilho Ylönen (FIN)	1,128
4	Jorma Taitto (FIN)	1,120
5	Constantin Antonescu (ROM)	1,101
6	John Sundberg (SWE)	1,094
7	Anders Kvissberg (SWE)	1,093
8	James Smith (USA)	1,082
9	Sándor Krebs (HUN)	1,078
10	Herbert Voelcker (USA)	1,075
11	Gerry Ouellette (CAN)	1,066
12	Rubén Váldez (PER)	1,044
13	Martin Gison (PHI)	1,043
14	Guillermo Baldwin (PER)	1,040
15	Wu Tao-Yan (TPE)	1,025
16	Ian Wrigley (AUS)	1,021
17	Norman Goff (AUS)	1,010
18	Steffen Cranmer (GBR)	999
19	Chu Hwa-Il (KOR)	903
20	Saifi Chaudhry (PAK)	267

Men's 50m rifle 3 positions - 4 December 1956

1	Anatoly Bogdanov (URS)	1,172
2	Otakar Horinek (CZE)	1,172
3	John Sundberg (SWE)	1,167
4	Vasily Borisov (URS)	1,163
5	Vilho Ylönen (FIN)	1,161
6	Gil Boa (CAN)	1,159
7	Iosif Sîrbu (ROM)	1,157
8	Anders Kvissberg (SWE)	1,156
9	Rudi Sigl (GER)	1,155
10	Sándor Krebs (HUN)	1,154
11	Albert Sigl (GER)	1,154
12	Art Jackson (USA)	1,153
13	Uffe Schultz Larsen (DEN)	1,152
14	Verle Wright Jr. (USA)	1,151
15	Erling Kongshaug (NOR)	1,151
16	Ole Hviid Jensen (DEN)	1,149
17	Jorma Taitto (FIN)	1,148
18	Constantin Antonescu (ROM)	1,147
19	Frans Lafortune (BEL)	1,145
20	Zlatko Masek (YUG)	1,144
21	Gerry Ouellette (CAN)	1,141
22	Wu Tao-Yan (TPE)	1,140
23	Steffen Cranmer (GBR)	1,140
24	Jacques Mazoyer (FRA)	1,139
25	Oscar Caceres (PER)	1,135
26	Carlo Varetto (ITA)	1,135
27	Don Tolhurst (AUS)	1,131
28	Maurice Racca (FRA)	1,126
29	Luis Coquis (PER)	1,124
30	Anker Hagen (NOR)	1,124
31	Frederick Hopkinson (GBR)	1,123
32	Juan Llabot (VEN)	1,118
33	Milton Sobocinski (BRA)	1,115
34	Norman Rule (AUS)	1,114
35	Harihar Banerjee (IND)	1,111
36	Yukio Inokuma (JPN)	1,110
37	Severino Moreira (BRA)	1,102
38	Haricharan Shaw (IND)	1,102
39	Roy Congreve (KEN)	1,096
40	Tomokazu Maruyama (JPN)	1,085
41	Robin Lavine (RSA)	1,082
42	Charles Trotter (KEN)	1,030
43	Zafar Ahmed Muhammad (PAK)	999
44	Guillermo Padilla (COL)	983

Men's 100m running deer, single/double shots - 4 December 1956

1	Vitaliy Romanenko (URS)	441
2	Olof Sköldberg (SWE)	432
3	Vladimir Sevryugin (URS)	429
4	Miklós Kovács (HUN)	417
5	Miklós Kocsis (HUN)	416
6	Rolf Bergersen (NOR)	409
7	Benkt Austrin (SWE)	405
8	John H. Larsen Sr. (NOR)	390
9	Germán Briceño (VEN)	375
10	Colin Anderson (AUS)	357
11	Noel Hall (AUS)	339

Men's 25m rapid fire pistol - 5 December 1956

1	Stefan Petrescu (ROM)
2	Yevgeny Cherkasov (URS)
3	Gheorghe Lichiardopol (ROM)
4	Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN)
5	Oscar Cervo (ARG)
6	Szilárd Kun (HUN)
7	Kalle Sievänen (FIN)
8	Károly Takács (HUN)
9	John Beaumont (USA)
10	Carlos Monteverde (VEN)
11	Alfonso Castañeda (MEX)
12	Michelangelo Borriello (ITA)
13	John Forman (USA)
14	Miguel Emmanuelli (PUR)
15	Choji Hosaka (JPN)
16	Pedro Simão (BRA)
17	Guillermo Cornejo (PER)
18	Adhaury Rocha (BRA)
19	Rodolfo Flores (MEX)
20	Carlos Crassus (VEN)
21	Vangelis Khrysafis (GRE)
22	Martin Gison (PHI)
23	Henry Steele (GBR)
24	Vasily Sorokin (URS)
25	James Zavitz (CAN)
26	Armando López-Torres (PER)
27	Charles Des Jammonières (FRA)
28	Johnnie Maitland (AUS)
29	Eliazar Guzmán (CHI)
30	Lukman Saketi (INO)
31	Yoshihide Ueda (JPN)
32	Enrique Hannaberg (COL)
33	Ignacio Cruzat (CHI)
34	Frederick Cooper (GBR)
35	Peter Papps (AUS)

Men's 50m rifle prone - 5 December 1956

1	Gerry Ouellette (CAN)	600
2	Vasily Borisov (URS)	599
3	Gil Boa (CAN)	598
4	Otakar Horinek (CZE)	598
5	Iosif Sîrbu (ROM)	598
6	Sándor Krebs (HUN)	598
7	Erling Kongshaug (NOR)	598
8	Severino Moreira (BRA)	597
9	Constantin Antonescu (ROM)	596
10	Don Tolhurst (AUS)	596
11	Rudi Sigl (GER)	596
12	John Sundberg (SWE)	596
13	Anker Hagen (NOR)	596
14	Anders Kvissberg (SWE)	596
15	Vilho Ylönen (FIN)	596
16	Zlatko Masek (YUG)	595
17	Johannes Human (RSA)	595
18	Uffe Schultz Larsen (DEN)	595
19	Wu Tao-Yan (TPE)	595
20	Milton Sobocinski (BRA)	594
21	Oscar Caceres (PER)	594
22	Norman Rule (AUS)	594
23	César Jayme (PHI)	594
24	Yukio Inokuma (JPN)	594
25	Enrique Lucca (VEN)	594
26	Steffen Cranmer (GBR)	593
27	Albert Sigl (GER)	593
28	Luis Coquis (PER)	593
29	Anatoly Bogdanov (URS)	593
30	Robin Lavine (RSA)	593
31	Art Jackson (USA)	593
32	Jorma Taitto (FIN)	592
33	Juan Llabot (VEN)	592
34	Hernando Castelo (PHI)	592
35	Jacques Mazoyer (FRA)	591
36	Verle Wright Jr. (USA)	590
37	Ole Hviid Jensen (DEN)	590
38	Frederick Hopkinson (GBR)	590
39	Maurice Racca (FRA)	589
40	Roy Congreve (KEN)	587
41	Charles Trotter (KEN)	586
42	Frans Lafortune (BEL)	585
43	Tomokazu Maruyama (JPN)	584
44	Zafar Ahmed Muhammad (PAK)	582

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