Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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. 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

Medal table

1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	1	6	11
2	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	0	1	3
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	1	3
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
	East Germany (GDR)	1	1	0	2
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	0	2
8	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
10	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
11	Chile (CHI)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
17	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
18	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Total		13	13	13	39

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

Mixed events

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

Participating nations

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

Argentina (3)  Australia (12)  Austria (11)  Belgium (6)  Brazil (4)  Bulgaria (6)  Canada (13)  Chile (1)  China (20)  Chinese Taipei (3)  Colombia (3)  Costa Rica (1)  Cyprus (1)  Czechoslovakia (14)  Denmark (6)  East Germany (15)  Ecuador (2)

Egypt (2)  Finland (9)  France (19)  Great Britain (8)  Greece (2)  Guatemala (1)  Hong Kong (1)  Hungary (15)  India (1)  Indonesia (1)  Israel (2)  Italy (13)  Japan (14)  Kenya (1)  Liechtenstein (1)  Luxembourg (2)

Malaysia (1)  Mexico (3)  Monaco (1)  Mongolia (3)  Nepal (1)  Netherlands (5)  Netherlands Antilles (1)  New Zealand (4)  Norway (6)  Oman (1)  Peru (3)  Poland (6)  Portugal (2)  Puerto Rico (2)  Qatar (1)  Romania (3)  San Marino (2)

Saudi Arabia (1)  Singapore (1)  South Korea (22)  Soviet Union (23)  Spain (8)  Sri Lanka (2)  Sweden (15)  Switzerland (9)  Thailand (3)  Turkey (2)  United States (24)  Virgin Islands (1)  Vietnam (1)  West Germany (18)  Yugoslavia (6)  Zimbabwe (2)

External links

• XXIVth Olympiad Seoul 1988 Official Report – Volume 2 Part 2 (PDF). Retrieved 2008-09-28.