1966 ISSF World Shooting Championships

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.

Medal count[]

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	17	6	6	29
2	Soviet Union (URS)	10	14	9	33
3	Poland (POL)	2	3	4	9
4	Romania (ROU)	1	3	0	4
5	Switzerland (SUI)	1	2	1	4
	West Germany (FRG)*	1	2	1	4
7	East Germany (GDR)	1	1	5	7
8	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	2	3
9	Chile (CHI)	1	0	0	1
10	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	2	3
11	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	0	1
14	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
15	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	South Africa (SAF)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 nations)		35	35	35	105

Rifle events[]

Men[]

Individual			Teams
300 metre rifle three positions
	Gary Anderson (USA)	1156		United States	4602
	Alexander Gerasimenok (URS)	1154		Soviet Union	4573
	John Foster (USA)	1153		Switzerland	4535
300 metre rifle prone
	Kurt Johansson (SWE)	398	No championship
	(NOR)	398
	(URS)	397
300 metre rifle kneeling
	John Foster (USA)	391	No championship
	Alexander Gerasimenok (URS)	389
	Kurt Johansson (SWE)	388
300 metre rifle standing
	Kurt Müller (SUI)	375	No championship
	Gary Anderson (USA)	375
	Alexander Gerasimenok (URS)	370
300 metre standard rifle
	(URS)	558		Soviet Union	2185
	Vladimir Konyakhin (URS)	552		Switzerland	2168
	Gary Anderson (USA)	550		United States	2161
50 metre rifle three positions
	Gary Anderson (USA)	1155		United States	4589
	(URS)	1150		Soviet Union	4572
	Henryk Gorski (POL)	1148		East Germany	4555
50 metre rifle prone
	(USA)	598		United States	2376
	Jerzy Nowicki (POL)	596		Poland	2371
	(USA)	596		Soviet Union	2364
50 metre rifle kneeling
	Vladimir Konyakhin (URS)	390		United States	1542
	(URS)	389		Soviet Union	1542
	(RSA)	389		Poland	1537
50 metre rifle standing
	Gary Anderson (USA)	372		East Germany	1467
	Werner Lippoldt (GDR)	371		Soviet Union	1464
	Hartmut Sommer (GDR)	370		United States	1460
50 metre standard rifle
	(USA)	567		United States	2243
	Gary Anderson (USA)	565		Soviet Union	2215
	Hartmut Sommer (GDR)	562		East Germany	2215

Women[]

Individual			Teams
50 metre rifle three positions
	Margaret Thompson (USA)	558	No championship
	(FRG)	545
	(URS)	544
50 metre rifle prone
	(POL)	591		Poland	1747
	Margaret Thompson (USA)	589		United States	1743
	(HUN)	585		Hungary	1732

Pistol events[]

Men[]

Individual			Teams
50 metre pistol
	(URS)	556		Soviet Union	2203
	(BUL)	555		Switzerland	2186
	Hynek Hromada (TCH)	553		Poland	2183
25 metre rapid fire pistol
	Virgil Atanasiu (ROU)	596		Soviet Union	2354
	Józef Zapędzki (POL)	594		Romania	2354
	Renart Suleimanov (URS)	593		East Germany	2346
25 metre center-fire pistol
	(USA)	595		United States	2341
	Lubomir Nacovsky (TCH)	589		Soviet Union	2340
	Renart Suleimanov (URS)	587		Czechoslovakia	2313

Women[]

Individual
25 metre pistol
	(URS)	582
	(URS)	581
	(GBR)	575

Shotgun events[]

Men[]

Individual			Teams
Trap
	(USA)	297		United States	768
	Gheorghe Enache (ROU)	292		Romania	764
	Pavel Senichev (URS)	292		Soviet Union	757
Skeet
	Jorge Jottar (CHI)	197		United States	383
	(FRG)	196		Soviet Union	381
	Artur Rogowski (POL)	195		West Germany	380

Women[]

Individual
Trap
	(FRG)	95
	(USA)	90
	(URS)	89
Skeet
	(URS)	91
	(VEN)	88
	(FRA)	83

Running target events[]

Individual			Teams
50 metre running target
	(URS)	164		Soviet Union	637
	(URS)	164		United States	604
	(USA)	161		Sweden	586

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