Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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Sports shooting at the Olympics

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Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place at Prado Olympic Shooting Park, Chino, California, United States. The games marked the first time that women’s shooting events were included in the Olympic program.

Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions	men	women
50 m rifle prone	men
10 m air rifle	men	women
Pistol
50 m pistol	men
25 m pistol		women
25 m rapid fire pistol	men
Shotgun
Trap	mixed
Skeet	mixed
Running target
50 m running target	men
v t e

Medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	1	2	6
2	China (CHN)	3	0	3	6
3	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
4	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	3	4
6	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
8	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Colombia (COL)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Peru (PER)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
16	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		11	11	11	33

Medalists

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 m air rifle details	Philippe Heberlé  France	Andreas Kronthaler  Austria	Barry Dagger  Great Britain
25 m rapid fire pistol details	Takeo Kamachi  Japan	Corneliu Ion  Romania	Rauno Bies  Finland
50 m fire pistol details	Xu Haifeng  China	Ragnar Skanåker  Sweden	Wang Yifu  China
50 m rifle prone details	Edward Etzel  United States	Michel Bury  France	Michael Sullivan  Great Britain
50 m rifle three positions details	Malcolm Cooper  Great Britain	Daniel Nipkov  Switzerland	Alister Allan  Great Britain
50 m running target details	Li Yuwei  China	Helmut Bellingrodt  Colombia	Huang Shiping  China

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 m air rifle details	Pat Spurgin  United States	Edith Gufler  Italy	Wu Xiaoxuan  China
25 m pistol details	Linda Thom  Canada	Ruby Fox  United States	Patricia Dench  Australia
50 m rifle three positions details	Wu Xiaoxuan  China	Ulrike Holmer  West Germany	Wanda Jewell  United States

Mixed events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Skeet details	Matthew Dryke  United States	Ole Riber Rasmussen  Denmark	Luca Scribani Rossi  Italy
Trap details	Luciano Giovannetti  Italy	Francisco Boza  Peru	Daniel Carlisle  United States

Participating nations

A total of 460 shooters, 382 men and 77 women, from 68 nations competed at the Los Angeles Games:

Andorra (2)  Argentina (6)  Australia (9)  Austria (10)  Bahrain (4)  Belgium (6)  Bolivia (4)  Brazil (8)  Canada (17)  Chile (4)  China (17)  Chinese Taipei (3)  Colombia (14)  Costa Rica (3)  Cyprus (4)  Denmark (3)  Ecuador (4)

Egypt (9)  El Salvador (1)  Finland (10)  France (15)  Great Britain (18)  Greece (5)  Guatemala (4)  Hong Kong (7)  India (8)  Indonesia (2)  Ireland (2)  Israel (3)  Italy (12)  Japan (15)  Jordan (7)  Kenya (2)  Lebanon (4)

Liechtenstein (2)  Luxembourg (1)  Malaysia (1)  Malta (2)  Mexico (8)  Monaco (4)  Netherlands (4)  New Zealand (3)  Norway (7)  Oman (8)  Papua New Guinea (2)  Paraguay (6)  Peru (7)  Philippines (1)  Portugal (5)  Puerto Rico (2)  Qatar (4)

Romania (6)  San Marino (10)  Saudi Arabia (6)  Senegal (2)  South Korea (18)  Spain (11)  Sweden (14)  Switzerland (9)  Syria (1)  Thailand (17)  Turkey (2)  United States (20)  Virgin Islands (3)  Venezuela (5)  West Germany (18)  Yugoslavia (6)  Zimbabwe (3)

See also

• Shooting at the Friendship Games

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Shooting at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2020.

External links

• Official Olympic Report