1958 ISSF World Shooting Championships

The 37th UIT World Shooting Championships was the contemporary name of the ISSF World Shooting Championships in all ISSF shooting events that were held in Moscow, Russia, the Soviet Union in 1958. For the first time ever, specific women's and junior events (50 metre rifle three positions and 50+100 metre rifle prone) were included.

Medal count[]

  *   Host nation (Soviet Union)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)*	24	12	4	40
2	United States (USA)	5	7	9	21
3	Finland (FIN)	3	4	4	11
4	Romania (ROU)	2	2	3	7
5	Great Britain (GBR)	2	0	2	4
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	3	2	6
7	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
	Italy (ITA)	0	2	1	3
9	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	4	5
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	2	3
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	2	3
12	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	1	2
13	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
14	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 nations)		37	37	37	111

Rifle events[]

Men[]

Individual			Teams			Juniors			Junior teams
300 metre rifle three positions
	Vilho Ylönen (FIN)	1136		Soviet Union	5575	No championship			No championship
	Daniel Puckel (USA)	1132		Finland	5554
	Esa Kervinen (FIN)	1129		Hungary	5533
300 metre rifle prone
	Verle Franklin Wright Jr. (USA)	389	No championship			No championship			No championship
	Vilho Ylönen (FIN)	389
	Daniel Puckel (USA)	389
300 metre rifle kneeling
	Verle Franklin Wright Jr. (USA)	385	No championship			No championship			No championship
	Daniel Puckel (USA)	384
	Esa Kervinen (FIN)	382
300 metre rifle standing
	Constantin Antonescu (ROU)	367	No championship			No championship			No championship
	Vilho Ylönen (FIN)	365
	(GER)	363
300 metre standard rifle
	(URS)	555		Soviet Union	2737	No championship			No championship
	Moysey Itkis (URS)	552		Yugoslavia	2641
	(URS)	547		Finland	2626
300 metre army rifle (Soviet rifle)
	(URS)	189		Soviet Union	723	No championship			No championship
	(TCH)	186		Czechoslovakia	675
	(URS)	181		North Korea	633
50+100 metre rifle prone
	Jussi Nordquist (FIN)	593		Soviet Union	2333		Marin Ferecatu (ROU)	588	No championship
	(BUL)	590		Finland	2326		(ROU)	586
	(GBR)	588		Great Britain	2326		(YUG)	584
50 metre rifle three positions
	Victor Shamburkin (URS)	1148		Soviet Union	5715	No championship				Soviet Union	2527
	(URS)	1147		Germany	5632					Germany	2513
	Moysey Itkis (URS)	1147		United States	5624					Yugoslavia	2511
50 metre rifle prone
	(GBR)	396		Great Britain	1959	No championship			No championship
	(URS)	395		Romania	1959
	(USA)	394		Soviet Union	1953
50 metre rifle kneeling
	Vilho Ylönen (FIN)	391		Soviet Union	1922	No championship			No championship
	(URS)	390		United States	1908
	(BEL)	389		Czechoslovakia	1900
50 metre rifle standing
	Moysey Itkis (URS)	374		Soviet Union	1835	No championship			No championship
	Victor Shamburkin (URS)	373		Hungary	1798
	Verle Franklin Wright Jr. (USA)	370		Finland	1792

Women[]

Individual
50+100 metre rifle prone
	(URS)	588
	(URS)	586
	(ROU)	583
50 metre rifle three positions
	(URS)	851
	(URS)	841
	Magda Fedor (HUN)	841

Pistol events[]

Individual			Teams
50 metre pistol
	Makhmud Umarov (URS)	565		Soviet Union	2776
	Aleksey Gushchin (URS)	563		United States	2727
	Nelson Lincoln (USA)	556		Czechoslovakia	2721
25 metre rapid fire pistol
	(URS)	592		Soviet Union	2361
	Alexander Zabelin (URS)	592		United States	2319
	Ştefan Petrescu (ROU)	589		Hungary	2317
25 metre center-fire pistol
	William McMillan (USA)	586		Czechoslovakia	2326
	Vladimir Kudrna (TCH)	586		Soviet Union	2320
	Károly Takács (HUN)	585		United States	2317

Shotgun events[]

Individual			Teams
Trap
	(USA)	289		Soviet Union	763
	Galliano Rossini (ITA)	288		Italy	763
	Edoardo Casciano (ITA)	288		United States	741
Skeet
	(URS)	196		Soviet Union	382
	(URS)	194		Venezuela	377
	Juan Garcia (VEN)	194		Romania	377

Running target events[]

Individual			Teams
100 metre running deer, double shot
	(USA)	223		Soviet Union	856
	(SWE)	221		United States	855
	(USA)	219		Sweden	849
100 metre running deer, single shot
	(URS)	234		Soviet Union	900
	(URS)	226		United States	882
	(USA)	225		Sweden	854

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