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