title: Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics
text: # Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics
  
  Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at the Dynamo Shooting Range in Mytishchi in eastern part of Moscow between 20 and 26 July. Seven events were contested. Although events were mixed, i.e. open to both men and women, all medals were swept by men, and there were only 5 women competing compared to 77 in Los Angeles 1984, which introduced separate female events.
  
  ## Medal summary
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
  | 2 | Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 2 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 2 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 2 | Romania (ROM) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 6 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
  | 7 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
  | 8 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
  | 9 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | 9 | Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
  
  ### Events
  
  | Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 25 m rapid fire pistol details | Corneliu Ion (ROM) | Jürgen Wiefel (GDR) | Gerhard Petritsch (AUT) |
  | 50 m pistol details | Aleksandr Melentyev (URS) | Harald Vollmar (GDR) | Lyubcho Dyakov (BUL) |
  | 50 m rifle prone details | Károly Varga (HUN) | Hellfried Heilfort (GDR) | Petar Zapryanov (BUL) |
  | 50 m rifle three positions details | Viktor Vlasov (URS) | Bernd Hartstein (GDR) | Sven Johansson (SWE) |
  | 50 m running target details | Igor Sokolov (URS) | Thomas Pfeffer (GDR) | Aleksandr Gazov (URS) |
  | Skeet details | Kjeld Rasmussen (DEN) | Lars-Göran Carlsson (SWE) | Roberto Castrillo (CUB) |
  | Trap details | Luciano Giovannetti (ITA) | Rustam Yambulatov (URS) | Jörg Damme (GDR) |
  
  ## Participating nations
  
  A total of 239 shooters, 234 men and 5 women, from 38 nations competed at the Moscow Games:
  
  | Andorra (2)  Australia (2)  Austria (8)  Belgium (3)  Brazil (5)  Bulgaria (11)  Costa Rica (6)  Cuba (5)  Czechoslovakia (11)  Denmark (4) | East Germany (13)  Finland (9)  Greece (3)  Guatemala (5)  Hungary (14)  India (4)  Ireland (4)  Italy (10)  Jordan (4) | Laos (6)  Luxembourg (1)  Malta (2)  Mexico (2)  Mongolia (2)  Netherlands (4)  North Korea (11)  Peru (7)  Poland (12)  Romania (5) | San Marino (10)  Soviet Union (14)  Spain (8)  Sweden (8)  Syria (4)  Venezuela (2)  Vietnam (7)  Yugoslavia (3)  Zimbabwe (8) |
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