Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre running target

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50 metre running target
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue Schießanlage
Date August 31 & September 1, 1972
Competitors 28 from 16 nations
Winning score 569 WR
Medalists
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1st Yakiv Zheleznyak  Soviet Union
2nd Helmut Bellingrodt  Colombia
3rd John Kynoch  Great Britain
1976 →
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 free 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

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
1st Yakiv Zheleznyak  Soviet Union 289 280 569 WR
2nd Helmut Bellingrodt  Colombia 286 279 565
3rd John Kynoch  Great Britain 284 278 562
4 Valery 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 23x15px 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 23x15px North Korea DNS

References

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