1970 World Shooting Championships

Host City	Phoenix
Country	USA
Held	17 – 26 October 1970
Competitors	180
Countries	20

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	19	16	9	44
2	United States	USA	12	14	8	34
3	Yugoslavia	YUG	3	2	1	6
4	Sweden	SWE	3	1	5	9
5	Switzerland	SUI	3	0	1	4
6	Germany	GER	2	3	8	13
7	Czechoslovakia	TCH	2	3	7	12
8	Italy	ITA	2	1	2	5
9	Australia	AUS	2	1	0	3
10	Hungary	HUN	2	0	0	2
11	France	FRA	1	2	2	5
12	East Germany	GDR	1	1	5	7
13	Mexico	MEX	1	1	0	2
=	South Africa	RSA	1	1	0	2
15	Finland	FIN	0	3	2	5
16	Romania	ROU	0	2	0	2
17	Poland	POL	0	1	2	3
18	Bulgaria	BUL	0	1	1	2
19	Austria	AUT	0	1	0	1
20	Norway	NOR	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Free rifle three positions 300 m, Men	Valentin Kornev	URS	John Foster	USA	Vitaly Parkhimovich	URS
Free rifle three positions team 300 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Czechoslovakia	TCH
Free rifle prone 300 m, Men	Theo Ditzler	SUI	Lones Wigger	USA	Jaakko Minkkinen	FIN
Free rifle prone team 300 m, Men	Switzerland	SUI	Soviet Union	URS	Finland	FIN
Free rifle kneeling 300 m, Men	Lajos Papp	HUN	Vitaly Parkhimovich	URS	Rudolf Pojer	TCH
Free rifle kneeling team 300 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Switzerland	SUI
Free rifle standing 300 m, Men	Margaret Thompson	USA	John Foster	USA	John Writer	USA
Free rifle standing team 300 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Czechoslovakia	TCH
Standard rifle three positions 50 m, Men	John Writer	USA	Andrzej Sieledcow	POL	Uto Wunderlich	GDR
Standard rifle three positions team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Czechoslovakia	TCH
Small-Bore rifle three positions 50 m, Men	Vitaly Parkhimovich	URS	John Writer	USA	Lones Wigger	USA
Small-Bore rifle three positions team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Germany	GER
Small-Bore rifle prone 50 m, Men	Manfred Fiess	RSA	Esa Kervinen	FIN	Klaus Zähringer	GER
Small-Bore rifle prone team 50 m, Men	Italy	ITA	Romania	ROU	Yugoslavia	YUG
Small-Bore rifle kneeling 50 m, Men	Erich Bürgin	SUI	Wolfram Waibel, Sr.	AUT	Sven Johansson	SWE
Small-Bore rifle kneeling team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Germany	GER
Small-Bore rifle standing 50 m, Men	Vitaly Parkhimovich	URS	Petr Kovářík	TCH	John Writer	USA
Small-Bore rifle standing team 50 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR
Air rifle 10 m, Men	Gottfried Kustermann	GER	Klaus Zähringer	GER	Rolf Blomberg	SWE
Air rifle team 10 m, Men	Germany	GER	United States	USA	East Germany	GDR
Military rifle three positions 300 m, Men	John Foster	USA	Vladimir Agishev	URS	Valentin Kornev	URS
Military rifle three positions team 300 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Poland	POL
Free pistol 50 m, Men	Harald Vollmar	GDR	Dencho Denev	BUL	Hynek Hromada	TCH
Free pistol team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR	Poland	POL
Rapid fire pistol 25 m, Men	Giovanni Liverzani	ITA	Ladislav Falta	TCH	Veselin Petkov	BUL
Rapid fire pistol team 25 m, Men	Czechoslovakia	TCH	Romania	ROU	Italy	ITA
Center-fire pistol 25 m, Men	Rafael Carpio	MEX	Seppo Mäkinen	FIN	Lubomír Nácovský	TCH
Center-fire pistol team 25 m, Men	Czechoslovakia	TCH	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS
Air pistol 10 m, Men	Kornél Marosvári	HUN	Vladimir Stolypin	URS	Harald Vollmar	GDR
Air pistol team 10 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Finland	FIN	Germany	GER
Standard pistol 25 m, Men	Renart Suleymanov	URS	Hynek Hromada	TCH	Bill McMillan	USA
Standard pistol team 25 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Czechoslovakia	TCH
Trap, Men	Michel Carrega	FRA	Jean-Jacques Baud	FRA	Larry Stafford	USA
Trap team, Men	United States	USA	France	FRA	Italy	ITA
Skeet, Men	Yevgeny Petrov	URS	Yury Tsuranov	URS	Élie Pénot	FRA
Skeet team, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	France	FRA
Running target 50 m, Men	Göte Gåård	SWE	Valery Postoyanov	URS	Martin Nordfors	SWE
Running target mixed 50 m, Men	Göte Gåård	SWE	Valery Postoyanov	URS	Martin Nordfors	SWE
Running target team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Sweden	SWE	United States	USA
Running target mixed team 50 m, Men	Sweden	SWE	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA
Small-Bore rifle three positions 50 m, Women	Margaret Thompson	USA	Deszanka Perović	YUG	Lucia Fagereva	URS
Small-Bore rifle three positions team 50 m, Women	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR
Small-Bore rifle prone 50 m, Women	Deszanka Perović	YUG	Ann de Vos	RSA	Margareta Gustafsson	SWE
Small-Bore rifle prone team 50 m, Women	Yugoslavia	YUG	Germany	GER	Soviet Union	URS
Air rifle 10 m, Women	Tamara Cherkasova	URS	Deszanka Perović	YUG	Tatyana Ratnikova	URS
Air rifle team 10 m, Women	Yugoslavia	YUG	Soviet Union	URS	Germany	GER
Air pistol 10 m, Women	Sally Carroll	USA	Nina Raskasova	URS	Nina Stolyarova	URS
Air pistol team 10 m, Women	Soviet Union	URS	Germany	GER	United States	USA
Standard pistol 25 m, Women	Judy Trim	AUS	Gloria Vause	AUS	Nina Stolyarova	URS
Standard pistol team 25 m, Women	Australia	AUS	United States	USA	Germany	GER
Sport pistol 25 m, Women	Nina Stolyarova	URS	Barbara Hiley	USA	Karin Fitzner	GER
Sport pistol team 25 m, Women	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Germany	GER
Trap, Women	Yuliya Sidorova	URS	Bina Avrile	ITA	Valentina Gerasina	URS
Skeet, Women	Larisa Korchinskaya	URS	Nuria Ortiz	MEX	Kari Linden	NOR