| Date | 29 November – 1 December 1956 — 9:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Royal Australian Air Force Station, Laverton, Victoria | |
| Participants | 32 from 18 countries | |
| Format | 200 targets in three courses of 75, 75, and 50. | |
This was the only 1956 shooting event in which the USSR shooters did not win a medal. But they came very close. The gold medal was won by Italy’s Galliano Rossini, who was unchallenged with 195 birds, winning by five. Rossini was a distant descendent of the composer, Giacomo Puccini. Third-place was originally a tie between three shooters – Italy’s Alessandro Ciceri, and Nikolay Mogilevsky and Yury Nikandrov of the Soviet Union. But Ciceri shut-out the Soviets from the medals, winning the shoot-off with 24, to 23 for Mogilevsky and 22 for Nikandrov.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | Day 1 Points | Day 1 Course 1 Points | Day 1 Course 2 Points | Day 1 Course 3 Points | Day 2 Points | Day 2 Course 1 Points | Day 2 Course 2 Points | Day 2 Course 3 Points | Day 3 Points | Day 3 Course 1 Points | Day 3 Course 2 Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galliano Rossini | ITA | 195 | 74 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 71 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 50 | 25 | 25 | Gold | ||
| 2 | Adam Smelczyński | POL | 190 | 70 | 23 | 24 | 23 | 73 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 47 | 24 | 23 | Silver | ||
| 3 | Alessandro Ciceri | ITA | 188 | 71 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 69 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 48 | 23 | 25 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Nikolay Mogilevsky | URS | 188 | 73 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 70 | 25 | 24 | 21 | 45 | 23 | 22 | |||
| 5 | Yury Nikandrov | URS | 188 | 71 | 23 | 23 | 25 | 71 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 46 | 24 | 22 | |||
| 6 | František Čapek | TCH | 187 | 69 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 69 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 49 | 25 | 24 | |||
| 7 | Knut Holmqvist | SWE | 178 | 67 | 23 | 24 | 20 | 63 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 48 | 24 | 24 | |||
| 8 | Hans Liljedahl | SWE | 177 | 65 | 22 | 23 | 20 | 65 | 22 | 23 | 20 | 47 | 23 | 24 | |||
| 9 | John Bryant | AUS | 176 | 66 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 64 | 24 | 23 | 17 | 46 | 23 | 23 | |||
| 10 | Robert Pignard | FRA | 176 | 66 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 64 | 22 | 25 | 17 | 46 | 22 | 24 | |||
| 11 | Hans Aasnæs | NOR | 176 | 62 | 21 | 19 | 22 | 67 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 47 | 22 | 25 | |||
| 12 | Ioannis Koutsis | GRE | 175 | 66 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 66 | 25 | 21 | 20 | 43 | 21 | 22 | |||
| 13 | Franco Mignini | VEN | 172 | 60 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 66 | 22 | 19 | 25 | 46 | 24 | 22 | |||
| 14 | Michel Prévost | FRA | 171 | 60 | 20 | 22 | 18 | 70 | 24 | 22 | 24 | 41 | 21 | 20 | |||
| 15 | Zygmunt Kiszkurno | POL | 170 | 61 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 65 | 18 | 24 | 23 | 44 | 23 | 21 | |||
| 16 | Juan Gindre | ARG | 170 | 62 | 22 | 23 | 17 | 64 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 44 | 22 | 22 | |||
| 17 | Earl Caldwell | CAN | 169 | 60 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 67 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 42 | 22 | 20 | |||
| 18 | Joe Wheater | GBR | 168 | 64 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 62 | 20 | 23 | 19 | 42 | 21 | 21 | |||
| 19 | Raúl Olivo | VEN | 165 | 60 | 21 | 18 | 21 | 61 | 23 | 20 | 18 | 44 | 22 | 22 | |||
| 20 | Clement Mudford | AUS | 164 | 60 | 22 | 21 | 17 | 60 | 24 | 20 | 16 | 44 | 21 | 23 | |||
| 21 | Ernest Fear | GBR | 162 | 57 | 22 | 19 | 16 | 62 | 21 | 22 | 19 | 43 | 20 | 23 | |||
| 22 | William Pietersz | COL | 155 | 53 | 19 | 19 | 15 | 59 | 20 | 22 | 17 | 43 | 20 | 23 | |||
| 23 | Tokusaburo Iwata | JPN | 155 | 57 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 60 | 23 | 16 | 21 | 38 | 16 | 22 | |||
| 24 | Enrique Beech | PHI | 152 | 54 | 17 | 19 | 18 | 54 | 20 | 19 | 15 | 44 | 23 | 21 | |||
| 25 | Igor Treybal | TCH | 148 | 55 | 22 | 16 | 17 | 51 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 42 | 23 | 19 | |||
| 26 | Federico Valle | PUR | 147 | 54 | 18 | 17 | 19 | 59 | 18 | 22 | 19 | 34 | 19 | 15 | |||
| 27 | León Bozzi | ARG | 146 | 57 | 21 | 15 | 21 | 55 | 17 | 20 | 18 | 34 | 20 | 14 | |||
| 28 | Moe Fu Kiat | MAL | 145 | 59 | 22 | 18 | 19 | 51 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 35 | 19 | 16 | |||
| 29 | Liew Foh Sin | MAL | 140 | 48 | 18 | 15 | 15 | 52 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 40 | 18 | 22 | |||
| 30 | Ujitoshi Konomi | JPN | 140 | 50 | 16 | 20 | 14 | 47 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 43 | 22 | 21 | |||
| 31 | Fernando Jiménez | PUR | 126 | 46 | 14 | 14 | 18 | 49 | 15 | 14 | 20 | 31 | 17 | 14 | |||
| 32 | Frank Opsal | CAN | 118 | 43 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 49 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 26 | 14 | 12 |
| Date | 29 November – 1 December 1956 — 9:00 |
|---|---|
| Format | 200 targets in three courses of 75, 75, and 50. |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alessandro Ciceri | ITA | 24 | ||
| 2 | Nikolay Mogilevsky | URS | 23 | ||
| 3 | Yury Nikandrov | URS | 22 |