1954 World Shooting Championships

Host City	Caracas
Country	VEN
Held	17 – 25 November 1954
Competitors	101
Countries	12

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	20	6	7	33
2	Sweden	SWE	4	10	6	20
3	United States	USA	3	6	2	11
4	Italy	ITA	2	1	0	3
5	Canada	CAN	1	0	0	1
6	Norway	NOR	0	4	5	9
7	Switzerland	SUI	0	2	1	3
8	Yugoslavia	YUG	0	1	0	1
9	Finland	FIN	0	0	6	6
10	Colombia	COL	0	0	1	1
=	Cuba	CUB	0	0	1	1
=	Egypt	EGY	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Free rifle three positions 300 m, Men	Anatoly Bogdanov	URS	Vasily Borisov	URS	Vilho Ylönen	FIN
Free rifle three positions team 300 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Switzerland	SUI	Sweden	SWE
Free rifle prone 300 m, Men	Anatoly Bogdanov	URS	Vasily Borisov	URS	Ernst Huber	SUI
Free rifle kneeling 300 m, Men	Anatoly Bogdanov	URS	John Sundberg	SWE	Vilho Ylönen	FIN
Free rifle standing 300 m, Men	Vasily Borisov	URS	August Hollenstein	SUI	Anatoly Bogdanov	URS
Small-Bore rifle three positions 50 m, Men	Anatoly Bogdanov	URS	Vasily Borisov	URS	Vilho Ylönen	FIN
Small-Bore rifle three positions team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Sweden	SWE	Norway	NOR
Small-Bore rifle prone 50 m, Men	Vasily Borisov	URS	Anders Kvissberg	SWE	Iver Aas	NOR
Small-Bore rifle prone 50 and 100 m, Men	Gil Boa	CAN	Kurt Johansson	SWE	August Westergaard	USA
Small-Bore rifle prone team 50 m, Men	Sweden	SWE	Norway	NOR	Soviet Union	URS
Small-Bore rifle prone team 50 and 100 m, Men	United States	USA	Sweden	SWE	Soviet Union	URS
Small-Bore rifle kneeling 50 m, Men	Anatoly Bogdanov	URS	Vasily Borisov	URS	Moisey Itkis	URS
Small-Bore rifle kneeling team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Sweden	SWE	Norway	NOR
Small-Bore rifle standing 50 m, Men	Anatoly Bogdanov	URS	Vasily Borisov	URS	John Sundberg	SWE
Small-Bore rifle standing team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Norway	NOR	Sweden	SWE
Military rifle three positions 300 m, Men	Walther Fröstell	SWE	Anders Kvissberg	SWE	José Matallana	COL
Military rifle three positions team 300 m, Men	Sweden	SWE	Yugoslavia	YUG	Finland	FIN
Free pistol 50 m, Men	Joe Benner	USA	Torsten Ullman	SWE	Anatoly Yasinsky	URS
Free pistol team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Sweden	SWE
Rapid fire pistol 25 m, Men	Nikolay Kalinichenko	URS	Bill McMillan	USA	Pentti Linnosvuo	FIN
Rapid fire pistol team 25 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Finland	FIN
Center-fire pistol 25 m, Men	Torsten Ullman	SWE	Joe Benner	USA	Bill McMillan	USA
Center-fire pistol team 25 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Cuba	CUB
Trap, Men	Cesare Merlo	ITA	Galliano Rossini	ITA	Hans Aasnæs	NOR
Trap team, Men	Italy	ITA	Sweden	SWE	Egypt	EGY
Skeet, Men	Chesley Crites	USA	Kenneth Pendergrass	USA	Bengt Malmgren	SWE
Running deer single shots 100 m, Men	Vitaly Romanenko	URS	Rolf Bergersen	NOR	Nikolay Prosorovsky	URS
Running deer double shots 100 m, Men	Dmitry Bobrun	URS	Vitaly Romanenko	URS	Vladimir Sevryugin	URS
Running deer single shots team 100 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Norway	NOR	Sweden	SWE
Running deer double shots team 100 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Sweden	SWE	Norway	NOR