1966 ISSF World Shooting Championships
Encyclopedia
The 39th UIT World Shooting Championships was the contemporary name of the ISSF World Shooting Championships
in all ISSF shooting events
that were held in Wiesbaden
, West Germany
in 1966.
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....
that were held in Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...
, West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
in 1966.
Medal count
| 1 |  United States |
17 | 6 | 6 | 29 |
| 2 |  Soviet Union |
10 | 14 | 9 | 33 |
| 3 |  Poland |
2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 |  Romania |
1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 |  Switzerland |
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| 7 |  German Democratic Republic |
1 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 8 |  Sweden |
1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 |  Chile |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 |  Czechoslovakia |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 |  Bulgaria |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 14 |  Hungary |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 15 |  Early Modern France |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
