1974 World Shooting Championships

Host City	Thun
Country	SUI
Held	19 – 28 September 1974
Competitors	197
Countries	21

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	23	11	8	42
2	United States	USA	15	15	11	41
3	Poland	POL	3	2	2	7
4	Germany	GER	2	3	5	10
5	France	FRA	2	0	2	4
6	Czechoslovakia	TCH	1	5	4	10
7	Bulgaria	BUL	1	2	1	4
=	Romania	ROU	1	2	1	4
9	Finland	FIN	1	1	2	4
10	Canada	CAN	1	0	0	1
=	Colombia	COL	1	0	0	1
=	South Africa	RSA	1	0	0	1
13	East Germany	GDR	0	3	2	5
14	Italy	ITA	0	2	1	3
15	Switzerland	SUI	0	1	4	5
16	Sweden	SWE	0	1	3	4
17	Austria	AUT	0	1	2	3
=	Norway	NOR	0	1	2	3
19	Hungary	HUN	0	1	1	2
20	Yugoslavia	YUG	0	1	0	1
21	Australia	AUS	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Free rifle three positions 300 m, Men	Lanny Bassham	USA	John Foster	USA	Max Hürzeler	SUI
Free rifle three positions team 300 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Switzerland	SUI
Free rifle prone 300 m, Men	Lanny Bassham	USA	Uto Wunderlich	GDR	Lones Wigger	USA
Free rifle prone team 300 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Switzerland	SUI
Free rifle kneeling 300 m, Men	John Foster	USA	Max Hürzeler	SUI	Eugeniusz Pędzisz	POL
Free rifle kneeling team 300 m, Men	Poland	POL	United States	USA	Switzerland	SUI
Free rifle standing 300 m, Men	Lanny Bassham	USA	John Foster	USA	Vladimir Agishev	URS
Free rifle standing team 300 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Czechoslovakia	TCH
Standard rifle three positions 300 m, Men	David Kimes	USA	Lones Wigger	USA	John Foster	USA
Standard rifle three positions 50 m, Men	Hermann Sauer	RSA	Uto Wunderlich	GDR	Helge Anshushaug	NOR
Standard rifle three positions team 300 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Czechoslovakia	TCH
Standard rifle three positions team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Norway	NOR
Small-Bore rifle three positions 50 m, Men	John Writer	USA	Lones Wigger	USA	Lanny Bassham	USA
Small-Bore rifle three positions team 50 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Germany	GER
Small-Bore rifle prone 50 m, Men	Karel Bulan	TCH	Helge Anshushaug	NOR	Wolfram Waibel, Sr.	AUT
Small-Bore rifle prone team 50 m, Men	Finland	FIN	United States	USA	Czechoslovakia	TCH
Small-Bore rifle kneeling 50 m, Men	Vitaly Parkhimovich	URS	Jaakko Minkkinen	FIN	John Writer	USA
Small-Bore rifle kneeling team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Germany	GER
Small-Bore rifle standing 50 m, Men	Lones Wigger	USA	Gerhard Krimbacher	AUT	Lanny Bassham	USA
Small-Bore rifle standing team 50 m, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Hungary	HUN
Air rifle 10 m, Men	Eugeniusz Pędzisz	POL	Lanny Bassham	USA	David Kramer	USA
Air rifle team 10 m, Men	Germany	GER	United States	USA	Poland	POL
Free pistol 50 m, Men	Georgy Zapolskikh	URS	Ivan Némethy	TCH	Harald Vollmar	GDR
Free pistol team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Czechoslovakia	TCH	Austria	AUT
Rapid fire pistol 25 m, Men	Alfred Radke	GER	Heinz Weissenberger	GER	Viktor Torshin	URS
Rapid fire pistol team 25 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Czechoslovakia	TCH	Romania	ROU
Center-fire pistol 25 m, Men	Dan Iuga	ROU	Francis Higginson	USA	Hynek Hromada	TCH
Center-fire pistol team 25 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Finland	FIN
Air pistol 10 m, Men	Grigory Kosykh	URS	Corneliu Ion	ROU	Jean Faggion	FRA
Air pistol team 10 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Germany	GER	East Germany	GDR
Standard pistol 25 m, Men	Viktor Torshin	URS	Bonnie Harmon	USA	Valery Margasov	URS
Standard pistol team 25 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Czechoslovakia	TCH	United States	USA
Trap, Men	Michel Carrega	FRA	Giorgio Rosatti	ITA	Silvano Basagni	ITA
Trap team, Men	France	FRA	Italy	ITA	United States	USA
Skeet, Men	Wiesław Gawlikowski	POL	Yury Tsuranov	URS	Markus Remes	FIN
Skeet team, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Poland	POL	United States	USA
Running target 50 m, Men	Helmut Bellingrodt	COL	Valery Postoyanov	URS	Aleksandr Gazov	URS
Running target mixed 50 m, Men	Valery Postoyanov	URS	Aleksandr Kedyarov	URS	Aleksandr Gazov	URS
Running target team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR	United States	USA
Running target mixed team 50 m, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Hungary	HUN	Sweden	SWE
Small-Bore rifle three positions 50 m, Women	Anka Pelova	BUL	Nonka Shatarova	BUL	Margaret Murdock	USA
Small-Bore rifle three positions team 50 m, Women	Soviet Union	URS	Bulgaria	BUL	Germany	GER
Small-Bore rifle prone 50 m, Women	Margaret Murdock	USA	Christina Gustafsson	SWE	Nonka Shatarova	BUL
Small-Bore rifle prone team 50 m, Women	United States	USA	Yugoslavia	YUG	Sweden	SWE
Air rifle 10 m, Women	Tatyana Ratnikova	URS	Kira Boyko	URS	Baiba Zarina	URS
Air rifle team 10 m, Women	Soviet Union	URS	Poland	POL	Germany	GER
Air pistol 10 m, Women	Zinaida Simonyan	URS	Anișoara Matei	ROU	Nina Stolyarova	URS
Air pistol team 10 m, Women	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Germany	GER
Sport pistol 25 m, Women	Nina Stolyarova	URS	Galina Zharikova	URS	Zinaida Simonyan	URS
Sport pistol team 25 m, Women	Soviet Union	URS	Czechoslovakia	TCH	Australia	AUS
Trap, Women	Sue Nattrass	CAN	Audrey Grosch	USA	Françoise Robrolle	FRA
Skeet, Women	Larisa Korchinskaya	URS	Saskia Brixner	GER	Evior Melander	SWE