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Running Target, 50 metres, Open

Date31 August – 1 September 1972 — 9:00
StatusOlympic
LocationSchießanlage, Hochbrück, München
Participants28 from 16 countries
Format50 metres. 60 shots. 600 possible.

Various permutations of a running target event had been held at the 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1952, and 1956 Olympics, but it had been off the program for the last three Olympic Games. Often contested as a running deer target, in 1972 it was contested as a running boar event shot over 50 metres. The gold medal in 1972 went to Yakov Zheleznyak (URS) who had been European Champion in running deer singles and doubles in 1965, and broke the world record for the event with 569. The silver medal went to Colombia’s Helmut Bellingrodt, the first Olympic medal won by a Colombian athlete. Bellingrodt would win the World Championship in 1974, and in 1978 he and his two brothers, Horst and Hanspeter (Bellingrodt), won the team event for Colombia at the Worlds.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCPointsSlow Run PointsFast Run Points
1Yakov ZheleznyakURS569289280GoldWR
2Helmut BellingrodtCOL565286279Silver
3John KynochGBR562284278Bronze
4Valery PostoyanovURS560286274
5Christoph-Michael ZeisnerFRG554276278
6Göte GåårdSWE553274279
7Gunther DanneFRG551276275
8Karl-Axel KarlssonSWE551281270
9Edmund MoellerUSA550285265
10Giovanni MezzaniITA548277271
11Enrique ReboraARG547279268
12John H. Larsen, Jr.NOR546278268
13Gyula SzabóHUN545276269
14Pekka SuomelaFIN545278267
15Hanspeter BellingrodtCOL545280265
16Roger RenauxFRA544277267
17Zygmunt BogdziewiczPOL541276265
18Pedro RamírezPUR540275265
19Charles DavisUSA540276264
20Kim Song-BokPRK536268268
21Roman KuziorPOL536272264
22István JeneiHUN531276255
23Paavo MikkonenFIN530279251
24John AnthonyGBR527273254
25Tore SkauNOR526268258
26Graeme McIntyreNZL523270253
27Giancarlo CecconiITA520262258
28Frank TossasPUR455269186