Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Shooting at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Dates	18–23 October 1968

Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City comprised seven events. A second shotgun event, Skeet, was introduced. They were held between 18 and 23 October 1968. For the first time, women competed alongside men.^[1]

at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Rifle
300 m rifle three positions	Mixed
50 m rifle three positions	Mixed
50 m rifle prone	Mixed
Pistol
25 m rapid fire pistol	Mixed
50 m pistol	Mixed
Shotgun
Trap	Mixed
Skeet	Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
rapid fire pistol	Józef Zapędzki  Poland	593	Marcel Roșca  Romania	591	Renart Suleymanov  Soviet Union	591
pistol	Grigory Kosykh  Soviet Union	562	Heinz Mertel  West Germany	562	Harald Vollmar  East Germany	560
300 metre rifle, three positions	Gary Anderson  United States	1157	Valentin Kornev  Soviet Union	1151	Kurt Müller  Switzerland	1148
rifle, three positions	Bernd Klingner  West Germany	1157	John Writer  United States	1156	Vitali Parkhimovitch  Soviet Union	1154
rifle, prone	Jan Kůrka  Czechoslovakia	598	László Hammerl  Hungary	598	Ian Ballinger  New Zealand	597
skeet	Yevgeni Petrov  Soviet Union	198	Romano Garagnani  Italy	198	Konrad Wirnhier  West Germany	198
trap	Bob Braithwaite  Great Britain	198	Thomas Garrigus  United States	196	Kurt Czekalla  East Germany	196

A total of 351 shooters, 348 men and 3 women, from 62 nations competed at the Mexico City Games:^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	1	2	5
2	United States	1	2	0	3
3	West Germany	1	1	1	3
4	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
7	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
10	East Germany	0	0	2	2
11	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		7	7	7	21

• Official Olympic Report