Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre running target
# Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre running target

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 | Soviet Union | 289 | 280 | 569 WR |
| | Helmut Bellingrodt | Colombia | 286 | 279 | 565 |
| | John Kynoch | Great Britain | 284 | 278 | 562 |
| 4 | Valerii Postoyanov | Soviet Union | 286 | 274 | 560 |
| 5 | Christoph-Michael Zeisner | West Germany | 276 | 278 | 554 |
| 6 | Göte Gåård | Sweden | 274 | 279 | 553 |
| 7 | Günther Danne | West Germany | 276 | 275 | 551 |
| 8 | Karl-Axel Karlsson | Sweden | 281 | 270 | 551 |
| 9 | Edmund Moeller | United States | 285 | 265 | 550 |
| 10 | Giovanni Mezzani | Italy | 277 | 271 | 548 |
| 11 | Enrique Rebora | Argentina | 279 | 268 | 547 |
| 12 | John H. Larsen Jr. | Norway | 278 | 268 | 546 |
| 13 | Gyula Szabó | Hungary | 276 | 269 | 545 |
| 14 | Pekka Suomela | Finland | 278 | 267 | 545 |
| 15 | Hanspeter Bellingrodt | Colombia | 280 | 265 | 545 |
| 16 | Roger Renaux | France | 277 | 267 | 544 |
| 17 | Zygmunt Bogdziewicz | Poland | 276 | 265 | 541 |
| 18 | Pedro Ramírez | Puerto Rico | 275 | 265 | 540 |
| 19 | Charles Davis | United States | 276 | 264 | 540 |
| 20 | Kim Song-bok | North Korea | 268 | 268 | 536 |
| 21 | Roman Kuzior | Poland | 272 | 264 | 536 |
| 22 | István Jenei | Hungary | 276 | 255 | 531 |
| 23 | Paavo Mikkonen | Finland | 279 | 251 | 530 |
| 24 | John Anthony | Great Britain | 273 | 254 | 527 |
| 25 | Tore Skau | Norway | 268 | 258 | 526 |
| 26 | Graeme McIntyre | New Zealand | 270 | 253 | 523 |
| 27 | Giancarlo Cecconi | Italy | 262 | 258 | 520 |
| 28 | Frank Tossas | Puerto Rico | 269 | 186 | 455 |
| - | Enrique Soto | Mexico | | | DNS |
| - | Dok Man-Oh | North Korea | | | DNS |
