Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Shooting at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad

Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place at Prado Olympic Shooting Park, Chino, California, United States. The games marked the first time that women’s shooting events were included in the Olympic program.

Medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	1	2	6
2	China (CHN)	3	0	3	6
3	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
4	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	3	4
6	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
8	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Colombia (COL)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Peru (PER)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
16	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		11	11	11	33

Medalists

Men's events

From left to right: Michel Bury, Edward Etzel and Michael Sullivan

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 m air rifle	Philippe Heberlé  France	Andreas Kronthaler  Austria	Barry Dagger  Great Britain
25 m rapid fire pistol	Takeo Kamachi  Japan	Corneliu Ion  Romania	Rauno Bies  Finland
50 m fire pistol	Xu Haifeng  China	Ragnar Skanåker  Sweden	Wang Yifu  China
50 m rifle prone	Edward Etzel  United States	Michel Bury  France	Michael Sullivan  Great Britain
50 m rifle three positions	Malcolm Cooper  Great Britain	Daniel Nipkov  Switzerland	Alister Allan  Great Britain
50 m running target	Li Yuwei  China	Helmut Bellingrodt  Colombia	Huang Shiping  China

Women's events

From left to right: Ulrike Holmer, Wu Xiauxuan and Wanda R. Jewell

From left to right: Ruby Fox, Linda Thom and Patricia Dench

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 m air rifle	Pat Spurgin  United States	Edith Gufler  Italy	Wu Xiaoxuan  China
25 m pistol	Linda Thom  Canada	Ruby Fox  United States	Patricia Dench  Australia
50 m rifle three positions	Wu Xiaoxuan  China	Ulrike Holmer  West Germany	Wanda Jewell  United States

Mixed events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Skeet	Matthew Dryke  United States	Ole Riber Rasmussen  Denmark	Luca Scribani Rossi  Italy
Trap	Luciano Giovannetti  Italy	Francisco Boza  Peru	Daniel Carlisle  United States

Participating nations

A total of 460 shooters, 382 men and 77 women, from 68 nations competed at the Los Angeles Games:

Andorra (2)  Argentina (6)  Australia (9)  Austria (10)  Bahrain (4)  Belgium (6)  Bolivia (4)  Brazil (8)  Canada (17)  Chile (4)  China (17)  Chinese Taipei (3)  Colombia (14)  Costa Rica (3)  Cyprus (4)  Denmark (3)  Ecuador (4)

Egypt (9)  El Salvador (1)  Finland (10)  France (15)  Great Britain (18)  Greece (5)  Guatemala (4)  Hong Kong (7)  India (8)  Indonesia (2)  Ireland (2)  Israel (3)  Italy (12)  Japan (15)  Jordan (7)  Kenya (2)  Lebanon (4)

Liechtenstein (2)  Luxembourg (1)  Malaysia (1)  Malta (2)  Mexico (8)  Monaco (4)  Netherlands (4)  New Zealand (3)  Norway (7)  Oman (8)  Papua New Guinea (2)  Paraguay (6)  Peru (7)  Philippines (1)  Portugal (5)  Puerto Rico (2)  Qatar (4)

Romania (6)  San Marino (10)  Saudi Arabia (6)  Senegal (2)  South Korea (18)  Spain (11)  Sweden (14)  Switzerland (9)  Syria (1)  Thailand (17)  Turkey (2)  United States (20)  Virgin Islands (3)  Venezuela (5)  West Germany (18)  Yugoslavia (6)  Zimbabwe (3)

See also

• Shooting at the Friendship Games

External links

• Official Olympic Report