The following are the results of the 50 metre running target competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Various types of a running target event had been held on and off throughout the history of the Olympics. It was last in the Olympics in 1956 where it was a 100 metre running deer event. This event often consisted as a running deer target at several speeds and distances, but at these games it was contested as a running boar shot at 50 metres at two speeds. The gold medal went to Yakiv Zheleznyak of the Soviet Union. He broke the world record in event with a score of 569. The silver medal went to Helmut Bellingrodt of Colombia this was the first Olympic medal won by a Colombian athlete.
Final The format was: 50 metres; 30 shots at each speed, slow and fast. 60 shots in total, for a possible score of 600.
Rank Name Nationality slow run fast run Total Yakiv Zheleznyak 289 280 569 WR Helmut Bellingrodt 286 279 565 John Kynoch 284 278 562 4 Valerii Postoyanov 286 274 560 5 Christoph-Michael Zeisner 276 278 554 6 Göte Gåård 274 279 553 7 Gunther Danne 276 275 551 8 Karl-Axel Karlsson 281 270 551 9 Edmund Moeller 285 265 550 10 Giovanni Mezzani 277 271 548 11 Enrique Rebora 279 268 547 12 John H. Larsen Jr. 278 268 546 13 Gyula Szabó 276 269 545 14 Pekka Suomela 278 267 545 15 Hanspeter Bellingrodt 280 265 545 16 Roger Renaux 277 267 544 17 Zygmunt Bogdziewicz 276 265 541 18 Pedro Ramírez 275 265 540 19 Charles Davis 276 264 54020 Kim Song-bok 268 268 536 21 Roman Kuzior 272 264 536 22 István Jenei 276 255 531 23 Paavo Mikkonen 279 251 530 24 John Anthony 273 254 527 25 Tore Skau 268 258 526 26 Graeme McIntyre 270 253 523 27 Giancarlo Cecconi 262 258 520 28 Frank Tossas 269 186 455 - Enrique Soto DNS - Dok Man-Oh DNS
References
External links Official report pg. 233