1952 ISSF World Shooting Championships

The 35th UIT World Shooting Championships was the contemporary name of the ISSF World Shooting Championships

ISSF World Shooting Championships

The ISSF World Shooting Championships are governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. World Shooting Championships began in 1897, after the successful 1896 Summer Olympics, and although the ISSF was not founded until 1907, these early competitions are still seen by the organization as...

in all ISSF shooting events

ISSF shooting events

The International Shooting Sport Federation recognizes several shooting events, some of which have Olympic status. They are divided into four disciplines: rifle, pistol, shotgun and running target....

held in Oslo

Oslo

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, Norway

Norway

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, in 1952, only weeks before the 1952 Summer Olympics

1952 Summer Olympics

The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

. It was the only World Shooting Championship between 1912 and 2008 to be conducted in an Olympic year.

Medal count

Rank	Country				Total
1	United States	8	3	7	18
2		7	6	4	17
3		6	4	4	14
4		5	8	6	19
5		3	5	4	12
6		1	0	2	3
7	Canada	0	1	0	1
		0	1	0	1
	Egypt	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
11		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1

Rifle events

Individual		\| Team
300 m Rifle 300 m Rifle 300 metre rifle is the name of two ISSF shooting events:* 300 metre rifle three positions* 300 metre rifle prone... Three positions Three positions International Rifle events in Three positions are conducted with an equal number of shots fired from the Prone, the Standing and the Kneeling positions, always in that order....
	1123			5540
	1121			5489
	1121			5481
300 m Rifle 300 m Rifle 300 metre rifle is the name of two ISSF shooting events:* 300 metre rifle three positions* 300 metre rifle prone... Prone position Prone position The term means to lie on bed or ground in a position with chest downwards and back upwards.-Etymology :The word "prone," meaning "naturally inclined to something, apt, liable," has been recorded in English since 1382; the meaning "lying face-down" was first recorded in 1578, but is also referred to...
	392	No team competition
	391
	389
300 m Rifle 300 m Rifle 300 metre rifle is the name of two ISSF shooting events:* 300 metre rifle three positions* 300 metre rifle prone... Kneeling position Kneeling position The kneeling position is a position for rifle shooting. There are no longer international competitions in pure kneeling shooting, but it is included as the last part of 300 metre rifle three positions, 300 metre standard rifle and 50 metre rifle three positions.It takes a very long time to achieve...
	381	No team competition
	378
	378
300 m Rifle 300 m Rifle 300 metre rifle is the name of two ISSF shooting events:* 300 metre rifle three positions* 300 metre rifle prone... Standing position Standing position In shooting, the standing position, also known as "offhand", refers to shooting while standing. It is often regarded as the most difficult position. The rules vary depending on the shooting discipline. Generally, one must stand freely, without the aid of a rest or bench. Highpower rifle, smallbore...
	361	No team competition
	359
	357
300 m Standard Rifle 300 m Standard Rifle 300 metre standard rifle is one of the ISSF shooting events. It is similar to 300 metre rifle but there are more restrictions on the rifle . The course of fire is a three positions program of 3x20 shots...
	530			2601
	528			2591
	527			2579
50 m Rifle 50 metre rifle three positions 50 metre rifle three positions is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 metre rifle three positions. It consists of the prone, standing and kneeling positions, fired in that order, with 3×40 shots for men and 3×20 shots for women... Three positions Three positions International Rifle events in Three positions are conducted with an equal number of shots fired from the Prone, the Standing and the Kneeling positions, always in that order....
	1164			5781
	1162			5737
	1160			5722
50 m Rifle 50 metre rifle prone 50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle caliber rifle... Prone position Prone position The term means to lie on bed or ground in a position with chest downwards and back upwards.-Etymology :The word "prone," meaning "naturally inclined to something, apt, liable," has been recorded in English since 1382; the meaning "lying face-down" was first recorded in 1578, but is also referred to... (60 shots)
	596		United States	2364
	595			2360
	594			2349
50 m Rifle 50 metre rifle prone 50 metre rifle prone is an International Shooting Sport Federation event consisting of 60 shots from the prone position with a .22 Long Rifle caliber rifle... Prone position Prone position The term means to lie on bed or ground in a position with chest downwards and back upwards.-Etymology :The word "prone," meaning "naturally inclined to something, apt, liable," has been recorded in English since 1382; the meaning "lying face-down" was first recorded in 1578, but is also referred to... (40 shots)
	400			1984
	399			1979
	398		United States	1979
50 m Rifle Kneeling position Kneeling position The kneeling position is a position for rifle shooting. There are no longer international competitions in pure kneeling shooting, but it is included as the last part of 300 metre rifle three positions, 300 metre standard rifle and 50 metre rifle three positions.It takes a very long time to achieve...
	393			1937
	392			1934
	392			1927
50 m Rifle Standing position Standing position In shooting, the standing position, also known as "offhand", refers to shooting while standing. It is often regarded as the most difficult position. The rules vary depending on the shooting discipline. Generally, one must stand freely, without the aid of a rest or bench. Highpower rifle, smallbore...
	382			1873
	378			1836
	378			1835

Pistol events

Individual
50 m Pistol 50 m Pistol 50 metre pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called free pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting types, dating back to the 19th century and only having seen marginal rule changes since...
	558		2718
	555		2698
	555		2671
25 m Rapid Fire Pistol 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol 25 metre rapid fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events. The event has been a part of the Olympic program ever since the beginning in 1896, although its rules changed greatly before World War II, after which they were only slightly changed until the two major revisions of 1989 and 2005...
	582	United States	2304
	581		2272
	581		2264
25 m Center-Fire Pistol 25 m Center-Fire Pistol 25 metre center-fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events, and is normally a men-only event. Its origin lies in competitions with military-style service pistols, and as such its history dates back to the 19th century....
	579	United States	2304
	576		2234
	576	Mexico	2207

Shotgun events

Individual		\| Team
Trap Olympic Trap Officially referred to only as trap, and also known in the United States as international trap, bunker trap, trench or international clay pigeon, the single-target Olympic trap shooting event has a history over a hundred years old...
	287			754
	286		Egypt	746
	286			743
Skeet Olympic Skeet Skeet is a variant of skeet shooting, and the specific variant used in the Olympic Games. Two throwing machines at different heights launch a series of 25 targets in a specific order, some as singles and some as doubles, with the shooter having a fixed position between them. Men's competitions...
	150	No team competition
	149
	148

Running target events

Individual
100 m Running Deer 100 m Running Deer 100 metre running deer is a discontinued ISSF shooting event, that was part of the Olympic programme from 1908 to 1948 and of the ISSF World Shooting Championships programme from 1929 to 1962, when it was replaced by 50 metre running target... Double Shot
	206	759
	201	744
	195	722
100 m Running Deer 100 m Running Deer 100 metre running deer is a discontinued ISSF shooting event, that was part of the Olympic programme from 1908 to 1948 and of the ISSF World Shooting Championships programme from 1929 to 1962, when it was replaced by 50 metre running target... Single Shot
	210	805
	209	797
	209	777

External links

All WCH medallists (ISSF website), which incorrectly gives 1950 as the year of this competition

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