title: 1955 European Shooting Championships
text: # 1955 European Shooting Championships
  
  The 1955 European Shooting Championships was the 1st edition of the global shooting competition, European Shooting Championships, organised by the International Shooting Sport Federation.
  
  ## Winners
  
  Events was 30, 17 individual and 13 team.
  
  ### Individual
  
  | Event | Winner | Country |
  | - | - | - |
  | KK rifle Version, lying | Erling Kongshaug | Norway |
  | 50 m rifle 3 positions | Ole Hviid Jensen | Denmark |
  | KK rifle, lying | Anders Kvissberg | Sweden |
  | 50 m rifle kneeling | Ole Hviid Jensen | Denmark |
  | KK rifle, standing | Moisei Itkis | Soviet Union |
  | 300 m standard rifle | Ernst Schmid | Switzerland |
  | Free sport rifle, lying | Vilho Ylönen | Finland |
  | 300 m rifle kneeling | Edwin Rohr | Switzerland |
  | Free sport rifle, standing | August Hollenstein | Switzerland |
  | 50 m pistol | Anton Yasynskiy | Soviet Union |
  | 25 m rapid fire pistol | Yevgeny Cherkasov | Soviet Union |
  | 25 m center fire pistol | Machmud Umarov | Soviet Union |
  | 300 m rifle 3 positions | Anatoli Bogdanov | Soviet Union |
  | Running deer, a shot | Miklós Kovács | Hungary |
  | Running stag, double shot | Fjodor Pusirj | Soviet Union |
  | Trap | Yuri Nikandrov | Soviet Union |
  | Skeet | Nikolai Durnev | Soviet Union |
  
  ### Team
  
  | Event | Winner | Country |
  | - | - | - |
  | KK rifle Version, team | (Iver Aas, Mauritz Amundsen, Willy Knudsen, Erling Kongshaug) | Norway |
  | Small bore rifle, three-position, team | (Anatoli Bogdanow, Wassili Borisov, Moisei Itkis, Boris Pereberin, Pawel Peremotin) | Soviet Union |
  | Small bore rifle, lying, team | (Anatoli Bogdanow, Vasily Borisov, Moisei Itkis, Boris Pereberin, Pawel Peremotin) | Soviet Union |
  | Small bore rifle, kneeling, team | (Anatoli Bogdanow, Vasily Borisov, Moisei Itkis, Grigori Lusin, Pawel Peremotin) | Soviet Union |
  | Small bore rifle, standing, team | (Anatoli Bogdanow, Vasily Borisov, Mosej Moisei Itkis, Boris Pereberin, Pawel Peremotin) | Soviet Union |
  | Army rifle, three-position, team | (Vasily Golovin, Vasily Krisnievsky, Ivan Novoshilov, Boris Pereberin, Pavel Peremotin) | Soviet Union |
  | 300 m rifle 3 positions, team | (Anatoli Bogdanow, Wassili Borisov, Wassili Golowin, Mosej Itkisch, Wassili Krisnjewski) | Soviet Union |
  | Sport pistol, team | (Wladimir Gjemin, Anton Yasynskiy, Konstantin Martasov, Machmud Umarow, Lew Wainstein) | Soviet Union |
  | Rapid-fire pistol, team | (Yevgeny Cherkasov, Nikolai Kalinichenko, Viktor Nasonov, Vasily Sorokin) | Soviet Union |
  | Large-caliber sport pistol, team | (Wladimir Gjemin, Konstantin Martasov, Machmud Umarow, Lew Wainstein) | Soviet Union |
  | Trap, team | (Sergej Kalinjin, Nikolai Mogilewski, Yuri Nikandrov, Vasily Selin) | Soviet Union |
  