Shooting at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Dates	25-29 July 1952
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With the competitions in shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the Olympic shooting program began its expansion. Three new events were added: 100 metre running deer, 50 metre rifle three positions and trap. In total there were seven events held between 25 and 29 July 1952.^[1] No women participated in the 1952 shooting events. This was the first year that a new format was introduced as well: the sights on the guns were now located on the left side of the barrel.^[2]

Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Rifle
300 metre rifle	men
50 m rifle, three positions	men
50 m rifle, prone	men
Pistol
25 m rapid fire pistol	men
50 metre pistol	men
Shotgun
Trap	men
Running deer
100 m running deer	men
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Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
rapid fire pistol details	Károly Takács (HUN)	579	Szilárd Kun (HUN)	578	Gheorghe Lichiardopol (ROU)	578
pistol details	Huelet Benner (USA)	553	Angel Leon de Gozalo (ESP)	550	Ambrus Balogh (HUN)	549
rifle prone details	Iosif Sîrbu (ROU)	400	Boris Andreyev (URS)	400	Arthur Jackson (USA)	399
rifle three positions details	Erling Asbjørn Kongshaug (NOR)	1164	Vilho Ylönen (FIN)	1164	Boris Andreyev (URS)	1163
running deer (single and double shot) details	John Larsen (NOR)	413	Per Olof Sköldberg (SWE)	409	Tauno Mäki (FIN)	407
300 metre rifle three positions details	Anatoli Bogdanov (URS)	1123	Robert Bürchler (SUI)	1120	Lev Weinstein (URS)	1109
trap details	George Genereux (CAN)	192	Knut Holmqvist (SWE)	191	Hans Liljedahl (SWE)	190

Károly Takács stunned the world after winning the 25-metre rapid fire pistol event. In 1940, he was known as the most skilled shooter in the Hungarian armed forces and was thought to be a favorite in the event. Unfortunately, Takács lost a portion of his hand in an accident involving a hand grenade during an operation simulation. Despite his full recovery, he was no longer able to shoot with his dominant hand. Takács trained for 12 years, making his weak hand shooting ability as skilled as his dominant hand once was. Eventually, he went on to win gold in this sport, shocking the world in the process and motivating people around the world to overcome adversity.^[3]

Participating nations

A total of 218 shooters from 41 nations competed at the Helsinki Games:^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway (NOR)	2	0	0	2
2	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	2	4
3	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	1	3
4	Romania (ROU)	1	0	1	2
	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
6	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
7	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	1	3
8	Finland (FIN)	0	1	1	2
9	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
Totals (10 entries)		7	7	7	21

References

External links

• International Olympic Committee medal winners database

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