Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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The shooting competitions at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place in Seoul, South Korea. Competitions were held in a total of thirteen events—seven men's events, four women's events, and two events open to both genders.[1] It was the first games for the 10 metre air pistol events, and the last for the 50 metre running target event, later replaced by 10 metre running target. It was also the first time the Olympic shooting competitions included finals for the top eight (in some cases six) competitors.

Medal summary[edit]

Medal table[edit]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)41611
2 Yugoslavia (YUG)2013
3 West Germany (FRG)1113
4 Bulgaria (BUL)1102
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)1102
 East Germany (GDR)1102
 Great Britain (GBR)1102
8 Norway (NOR)1001
 Romania (ROU)1001
10 China (CHN)0112
11 Chile (CHI)0101
 France (FRA)0101
 Japan (JPN)0101
 South Korea (KOR)0101
 Sweden (SWE)0101
 United States (USA)0101
17 Hungary (HUN)0022
18 Belgium (BEL)0011
 Spain (ESP)0011
Totals (19 entries)13131339

Men's events[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
50 metre rifle three positions
details
Malcolm Cooper
 Great Britain
Alister Allan
 Great Britain
Kirill Ivanov
 Soviet Union
50 metre rifle prone
details
Miroslav Varga
 Czechoslovakia
Cha Young-chul
 South Korea
Attila Záhonyi
 Hungary
10 metre air rifle
details
Goran Maksimović
 Yugoslavia
Nicolas Berthelot
 France
Johann Riederer
 West Germany
50 metre pistol
details
Sorin Babii
 Romania
Ragnar Skanåker
 Sweden
Igor Basinski
 Soviet Union
25 metre rapid fire pistol
details
Afanasijs Kuzmins
 Soviet Union
Ralf Schumann
 East Germany
Zoltán Kovács
 Hungary
10 metre air pistol
details
Tanyu Kiryakov
 Bulgaria
Erich Buljung
 United States
Xu Haifeng
 China
50 metre running target
details
Tor Heiestad
 Norway
Huang Shiping
 China
Gennadi Avramenko
 Soviet Union

Women's events[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
50 metre rifle three positions
details
Silvia Sperber
 West Germany
Vesela Letcheva
 Bulgaria
Valentina Cherkasova
 Soviet Union
10 metre air rifle
details
Irina Shilova
 Soviet Union
Silvia Sperber
 West Germany
Anna Maloukhina
 Soviet Union
25 metre pistol
details
Nino Salukvadze
 Soviet Union
Tomoko Hasegawa
 Japan
Jasna Šekarić
 Yugoslavia
10 metre air pistol
details
Jasna Šekarić
 Yugoslavia
Nino Salukvadze
 Soviet Union
Marina Dobrantcheva
 Soviet Union

Mixed events[edit]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Trap
details
Dmitry Monakov
 Soviet Union
Miloslav Bednařík
 Czechoslovakia
Frans Peeters
 Belgium
Skeet
details
Axel Wegner
 East Germany
Alfonso de Iruarrizaga
 Chile
Jorge Guardiola
 Spain

Participating nations[edit]

A total of 396 shooters, 285 men and 111 women, from 66 nations competed at the Seoul Games:[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Shooting at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.

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