Shooting at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Shooting
ISSF shooting events
The International Shooting Sport Federation recognizes several shooting events, some of which have Olympic status. They are divided into four disciplines: rifle, pistol, shotgun and running target....

at the 1964 Summer Olympics
1964 Summer Olympics
The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded with the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's...

in Tokyo

Tokyo

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comprised six events.

Medal count

1	2	2	3	7
2	2	0	0	2
3	1	0	1	2
4	1	0	0	1
5	0	2	0	2
6	0	1	0	1
6	0	1	0	1
8	0	0	1	1
8	0	0	1	1

Medalists by event

Pos	\|Competitor
300 m Rifle 300 m Rifle 300 metre rifle is the name of two ISSF shooting events:* 300 metre rifle three positions* 300 metre rifle prone... - Three positions Three positions International Rifle events in Three positions are conducted with an equal number of shots fired from the Prone, the Standing and the Kneeling positions, always in that order....
	Gary Anderson Gary Anderson (sport shooter) Gary Lee Anderson is a former Nebraska state legislator and an American sport shooter, who was the only shooter to win two Olympic gold medals in the 300 m Rifle event before it was discontinued...	1153
	Shota Kveliashvili	1144
	Martin Gunnarsson Martin Gunnarsson Martin Ingemar Gunnarsson was an American sport shooter who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics....	1136
50 m Rifle 50 metre rifle three positions 50 metre rifle three positions is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 metre rifle three positions. It consists of the prone, standing and kneeling positions, fired in that order, with 3×40 shots for men and 3×20 shots for women... - Three positions Three positions International Rifle events in Three positions are conducted with an equal number of shots fired from the Prone, the Standing and the Kneeling positions, always in that order....
	Lones Wigger Lones Wigger Lones Wesley Wigger, Jr. was an American military officer who was a member of the United States Olympic team on four occasions.He was born in Great Falls, Montana....	1164
	Velitchko Hristov	1152
	László Hammerl László Hammerl László Hammerl is a Hungarian sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.-References:...	1151
50 m Rifle 50 metre rifle prone 50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle caliber rifle... - Prone position Prone position The term means to lie on bed or ground in a position with chest downwards and back upwards.-Etymology :The word "prone," meaning "naturally inclined to something, apt, liable," has been recorded in English since 1382; the meaning "lying face-down" was first recorded in 1578, but is also referred to...
	László Hammerl László Hammerl László Hammerl is a Hungarian sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.-References:...	597
	Lones Wigger Lones Wigger Lones Wesley Wigger, Jr. was an American military officer who was a member of the United States Olympic team on four occasions.He was born in Great Falls, Montana....	597
	Tommy Pool	596
50 m Pistol 50 m Pistol 50 metre pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called free pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting types, dating back to the 19th century and only having seen marginal rule changes since...
	Väinö Markkanen Väinö Markkanen Väinö Markkanen is a Finnish sports shooter and Olympic champion. He won gold medal in the 50 metre pistol at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.-References:...	560
	Franklin Green	557
	Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	554
25 m Rapid Fire Pistol 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol 25 metre rapid fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events. The event has been a part of the Olympic program ever since the beginning in 1896, although its rules changed greatly before World War II, after which they were only slightly changed until the two major revisions of 1989 and 2005...
	Pentti Linnosvuo Pentti Linnosvuo Pentti Tapio Akseli Linnosvuo was a Finnish sport shooter, the most recent shooter to win Olympic gold medals in both 50 m Pistol and 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol . As the technique differs much between the two events, few modern top-level shooters even attempt to excel in both...	592
	Ion Tripsa	591
	Lubomír Nácovský	590
Trap Trap shooting Trap shooting is one of the three major forms of competitive clay pigeon shooting . The others are skeet shooting and sporting clays. There are many versions including Olympic trap, Double trap , Down-The-Line, and Nordic trap. American trap is most popular in the United States and Canada...
	Ennio Mattarelli Ennio Mattarelli Ennio Mattarelli is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won Gold medal in Trap Shooting in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.-References:...	198
	Pavel Senichev	194
	William Morris William Morris (sport shooter) William Morris , is an American sports shooter and was an officer in the United States Army when he won the bronze medal in the 1964 Summer Olympics. This was the first medal won in this sport for the USA in 40 years. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma.-References:...	194

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