| Shooting at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | |
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| Dates | 3-10 September 1960 |
Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome comprised six events, all for men only. They were held between 3 and 10 September 1960.[1]
| Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics | |
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| Rifle | |
| 300 m rifle three positions | men |
| 50 m rifle three positions | men |
| 50 m rifle prone | men |
| Pistol | |
| 25 m rapid fire pistol | men |
| 50 m pistol | men |
| Shotgun | |
| Trap | men |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| rapid fire pistol |
 William McMillan (USA) |
587 |  Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN) |
587 |  Aleksandr Zabelin (URS) |
587 |
| pistol |
Aleksey Gushchin (URS) |
560 | Makhmud Umarov (URS) |
552 |  Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (JPN) |
552 |
| 300 metre rifle, three positions |
Hubert Hammerer Austria |
1129 | Hans Rudolf Spillmann Switzerland |
1127 | Vasily Borisov Soviet Union |
1127 |
| rifle, three positions |
Viktor Shamburkin Soviet Union |
1149 | Marat Niyazov Soviet Union |
1145 | Klaus Zähringer United Team of Germany |
1139 |
| rifle, prone |
Peter Kohnke United Team of Germany |
590 | James Enoch Hill United States |
589 | Enrico Forcella Venezuela |
587 |
| trap |
Ion Dumitrescu Romania |
192 | Galliano Rossini Italy |
191 | Sergei Kalinin Soviet Union |
190 |
A total of 313 shooters from 59 nations competed at the Rome Games:[1]
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| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 |  United Team of Germany (EUA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 |  Austria (AUT) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Romania (ROU) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (10 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
