1966 World Shooting Championships

Host City	Wiesbaden
Country	GER
Held	14 – 23 July 1966
Competitors	131
Countries	16

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	United States	USA	17	6	7	30
2	Soviet Union	URS	10	14	10	34
3	Poland	POL	2	3	4	9
4	Germany	GER	2	3	1	6
=	Switzerland	SUI	2	3	1	6
6	Romania	ROU	1	3	0	4
7	East Germany	GDR	1	1	5	7
8	Sweden	SWE	1	0	2	3
9	Chile	CHI	1	0	0	1
10	Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	1	2	3
11	Bulgaria	BUL	0	1	0	1
=	Norway	NOR	0	1	0	1
=	Venezuela	VEN	0	1	0	1
14	Hungary	HUN	0	0	3	3
15	France	FRA	0	0	1	1
=	South Africa	RSA	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Free rifle three positions 300 m, Men	Gary Anderson	USA	Aleksandrs Gerasimjonoks	URS	John Foster	USA
Free rifle three positions team 300 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Switzerland	SUI
Free rifle prone 300 m, Men	Kurt Johansson	SWE	Magne Landrø	NOR	Marat Niyazov	URS
Free rifle kneeling 300 m, Men	John Foster	USA	Aleksandrs Gerasimjonoks	URS	Kurt Johansson	SWE
Free rifle standing 300 m, Men	Kurt Müller	SUI	Gary Anderson	USA	Aleksandrs Gerasimjonoks	URS
Standard rifle three positions 50 m, Men	Donald Adams	USA	Gary Anderson	USA	Hartmut Sommer	GDR
Standard rifle three positions team 50 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR
Small-Bore rifle three positions 50 m, Men	Gary Anderson	USA	Marat Niyazov	URS	Henryk Górski	POL
Small-Bore rifle three positions team 50 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR
Small-Bore rifle prone 50 m, Men	David Boyd	USA	Jerzy Nowicki	POL	William Krilling	USA
Small-Bore rifle prone team 50 m, Men	United States	USA	Poland	POL	Soviet Union	URS
Small-Bore rifle kneeling 50 m, Men	Vladimir Konyakhin	URS	Marat Niyazov	URS	Michiel Victor	RSA
Small-Bore rifle kneeling team 50 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Poland	POL
Small-Bore rifle standing 50 m, Men	Gary Anderson	USA	Werner Lippoldt	GDR	Hartmut Sommer	GDR
Small-Bore rifle standing team 50 m, Men	East Germany	GDR	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA
Air rifle 10 m, Men	Gerd Kümmert	GER	August Hollenstein	SUI	Lajos Papp	HUN
Air rifle team 10 m, Men	Switzerland	SUI	Germany	GER	Soviet Union	URS
Military rifle three positions 300 m, Men	Lyudvig Lustberg	URS	Vladimir Konyakhin	URS	Gary Anderson	USA
Military rifle three positions team 300 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Switzerland	SUI	United States	USA
Free pistol 50 m, Men	Vladimir Stolypin	URS	Dencho Denev	BUL	Hynek Hromada	TCH
Free pistol team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Switzerland	SUI	Poland	POL
Rapid fire pistol 25 m, Men	Virgil Atanasiu	ROU	Józef Zapędzki	POL	Renart Suleymanov	URS
Rapid fire pistol team 25 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Romania	ROU	East Germany	GDR
Center-fire pistol 25 m, Men	William Blankenship	USA	Lubomír Nácovský	TCH	Renart Suleymanov	URS
Center-fire pistol team 25 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Czechoslovakia	TCH
Trap, Men	Kenneth Jones	USA	Gheorghe Enache	ROU	Pāvels Seničevs	URS
Trap team, Men	United States	USA	Romania	ROU	Soviet Union	URS
Skeet, Men	Jorge Jottar	CHI	Hans-Joachim Suppli	GER	Artur Rogowski	POL
Skeet team, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Germany	GER
Running target 50 m, Men	Vladimir Veselov	URS	Igor Nikitin	URS	John Kingeter	USA
Running target team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Sweden	SWE
Small-Bore rifle three positions 50 m, Women	Margaret Thompson	USA	Anneliese Goth	GER	Tatyana Ryabinskaya	URS
Small-Bore rifle prone 50 m, Women	Eulalia Zakrzewska	POL	Margaret Thompson	USA	Ferencné Kun	HUN
Small-Bore rifle prone team 50 m, Women	Poland	POL	United States	USA	Hungary	HUN
Sport pistol 25 m, Women	Nina Raskasova	URS	Aleksandra Savina	URS	Susan Swallow	USA
Trap, Women	Elisabeth von Soden	GER	Charlotte Berkenkamp	USA	Valentina Gerasina	URS
Skeet, Women	Klavdiya Smirnova	URS	Mercedes Mata	VEN	Michèle Valery	FRA