Shooting at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
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Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle prone	mixed
50 m rifle three positions	mixed
Pistol
50 m pistol	mixed
25 m rapid fire pistol	mixed
Shotgun
Trap	mixed
Skeet	mixed
Running target
50 m running target	mixed
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Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal comprised seven events, all mixed. For the first time ever, a woman won an Olympic medal in shooting: Margaret Murdock caught the silver in the three positions event.^[1] Lanny Bassham and Murdock tied for the first place, but Murdock was placed second after review of the targets. Bassham suggested that two gold medals be given, and after this request was declined, asked Murdock to share the top step with him at the award ceremony. Women had no separate shooting events at the time and were allowed to compete with men. Murdock became the first woman to win an Olympic medal in shooting.^[2]

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
pistol details	Uwe Potteck (GDR)	Harald Vollmar (GDR)	Rudolf Dollinger (AUT)
rapid fire pistol details	Norbert Klaar (GDR)	Jürgen Wiefel (GDR)	Roberto Ferraris (ITA)
rifle prone details	Karlheinz Smieszek (FRG)	Ulrich Lind (FRG)	Gennadi Lushchikov (URS)
rifle three positions details	Lanny Bassham (USA)	Margaret Murdock (USA)	Werner Seibold (FRG)
running target details	Aleksandr Gazov (URS)	Aleksandr Kediarov (URS)	Jerzy Greszkiewicz (POL)
skeet details	Josef Panáček (TCH)	Eric Swinkels (NED)	Wiesław Gawlikowski (POL)
trap details	Donald Haldeman (USA)	Armando Marques (POR)	Ubaldesco Baldi (ITA)

Participating nations

A total of 344 shooters, 336 men and 8 women, from 60 nations competed at the Montreal Games:^[1]

Medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	2	2	0	4
2	United States	2	1	0	3
3	Soviet Union	1	1	1	3
	West Germany	1	1	1	3
5	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
6	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Portugal	0	1	0	1
8	Italy	0	0	2	2
	Poland	0	0	2	2
10	Austria	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		7	7	7	21