1978 World Shooting Championships

Host City	Seoul
Country	KOR
Held	24 September – 5 October 1978
Competitors	201
Countries	20

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	United States	USA	18	9	6	33
2	Finland	FIN	6	4	9	19
3	Italy	ITA	6	4	3	13
4	Germany	GER	5	7	5	17
5	Switzerland	SUI	5	6	4	15
6	Sweden	SWE	5	3	7	15
7	Great Britain	GBR	4	3	2	9
8	Spain	ESP	1	1	2	4
9	Canada	CAN	1	1	0	2
10	Denmark	DEN	1	0	0	1
11	France	FRA	0	4	1	5
12	South Korea	KOR	0	3	5	8
13	Australia	AUS	0	2	2	4
14	Japan	JPN	0	2	0	2
15	Brazil	BRA	0	1	1	2
=	Norway	NOR	0	1	1	2
17	Argentina	ARG	0	1	0	1
18	Austria	AUT	0	0	2	2
19	Colombia	COL	0	0	1	1
=	Guatemala	GUA	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Free rifle three positions 300 m, Men	Lones Wigger	USA	Juhani Laakso	FIN	Kuno Bertschy	SUI
Free rifle three positions team 300 m, Men	United States	USA	Switzerland	SUI	Finland	FIN
Free rifle prone 300 m, Men	Walter Inderbitzin	SUI	Lones Wigger	USA	Tore Hartz	NOR
Free rifle prone team 300 m, Men	United States	USA	Finland	FIN	Switzerland	SUI
Free rifle kneeling 300 m, Men	Kuno Bertschy	SUI	Tore Hartz	NOR	Juhani Laakso	FIN
Free rifle kneeling team 300 m, Men	Switzerland	SUI	United States	USA	Finland	FIN
Free rifle standing 300 m, Men	Malcolm Cooper	GBR	Bob Cheyne	CAN	Lones Wigger	USA
Free rifle standing team 300 m, Men	United States	USA	Switzerland	SUI	Finland	FIN
Standard rifle three positions 300 m, Men	David Kimes	USA	Yves Prouzet	FRA	Malcolm Cooper	GBR
Standard rifle three positions team 300 m, Men	United States	USA	Switzerland	SUI	Finland	FIN
Small-Bore rifle three positions 50 m, Men	Lanny Bassham	USA	Malcolm Cooper	GBR	Ulrich Lind	GER
Small-Bore rifle three positions team 50 m, Men	United States	USA	Germany	GER	Sweden	SWE
Small-Bore rifle prone 50 m, Men	Alister Allan	GBR	Lones Wigger	USA	Lanny Bassham	USA
Small-Bore rifle prone team 50 m, Men	United States	USA	Germany	GER	Switzerland	SUI
Small-Bore rifle kneeling 50 m, Men	John Churchill	GBR	Charles Jermann	SUI	Barry Dagger	GBR
Small-Bore rifle kneeling team 50 m, Men	Great Britain	GBR	Germany	GER	Austria	AUT
Small-Bore rifle standing 50 m, Men	Esbjörn Svensson	SWE	Seo Jang-Woon	KOR	Lanny Bassham	USA
Small-Bore rifle standing team 50 m, Men	United States	USA	Germany	GER	Sweden	SWE
Air rifle 10 m, Men	Oswald Schlipf	GER	Barry Dagger	GBR	Giuseppe Zuccoli	ITA
Air rifle team 10 m, Men	Germany	GER	United States	USA	South Korea	KOR
Free pistol 50 m, Men	Moritz Minder	SUI	Ragnar Skanåker	SWE	Karl-Otto Westphalen	GER
Free pistol team 50 m, Men	Switzerland	SUI	Japan	JPN	Germany	GER
Rapid fire pistol 25 m, Men	Ove Gunnarsson	SWE	Werner Beier	GER	Gerhard Petritsch	AUT
Rapid fire pistol team 25 m, Men	Germany	GER	Italy	ITA	Sweden	SWE
Center-fire pistol 25 m, Men	Seppo Mäkinen	FIN	Park Jong-Gil	KOR	Seppo Saarenpää	FIN
Center-fire pistol team 25 m, Men	Finland	FIN	Switzerland	SUI	Sweden	SWE
Air pistol 10 m, Men	Paavo Palokangas	FIN	Seppo Saarenpää	FIN	Paulo Lamego	BRA
Air pistol team 10 m, Men	Finland	FIN	Brazil	BRA	Sweden	SWE
Standard pistol 25 m, Men	Ragnar Skanåker	SWE	Seppo Saarenpää	FIN	Hannu Paavola	FIN
Standard pistol team 25 m, Men	Finland	FIN	Italy	ITA	Switzerland	SUI
Trap, Men	Eladio Vallduví	ESP	Silvano Basagni	ITA	Eli Ellis	AUS
Trap team, Men	United States	USA	Japan	JPN	Spain	ESP
Skeet, Men	Luciano Brunetti	ITA	Firmo Roberti	ARG	Romano Garagnani	ITA
Skeet team, Men	Italy	ITA	France	FRA	Sweden	SWE
Running target 50 m, Men	Juha Rannikko	FIN	John Gough	GBR	Carlos Silva	GUA
Running target mixed 50 m, Men	Giovanni Mezzani	ITA	Gunther Danne	GER	Ezio Cini	ITA
Running target team 50 m, Men	Germany	GER	United States	USA	Colombia	COL
Running target mixed team 50 m, Men	Italy	ITA	Germany	GER	Finland	FIN
Small-Bore rifle three positions 50 m, Women	Wanda Oliver	USA	Karen Monez	USA	Christina Gustafsson	SWE
Small-Bore rifle three positions team 50 m, Women	United States	USA	Sweden	SWE	France	FRA
Small-Bore rifle prone 50 m, Women	Sue Ann Sandusky	USA	Dominique Esnault	FRA	Karen Monez	USA
Small-Bore rifle prone team 50 m, Women	United States	USA	France	FRA	Australia	AUS
Air rifle 10 m, Women	Wanda Oliver	USA	Karen Monez	USA	Park Nam-Soon	KOR
Air rifle team 10 m, Women	United States	USA	South Korea	KOR	Germany	GER
Air pistol 10 m, Women	Kerstin Hansson	SWE	Gun Näsman	SWE	Mun Yang-Ja	KOR
Air pistol team 10 m, Women	Sweden	SWE	Australia	AUS	South Korea	KOR
Sport pistol 25 m, Women	Kim Dyer	USA	Brida Beccarelli	SUI	Helvi Leppamäki	FIN
Sport pistol team 25 m, Women	Denmark	DEN	Australia	AUS	United States	USA
Trap, Women	Sue Nattrass	CAN	Wanda Gentiletti	ITA	María Carmen García	ESP
Trap team, Women	Italy	ITA	Spain	ESP	United States	USA
Skeet, Women	Bianca Rosa Hansberg	ITA	Terry Bankey	USA	Ruth Jordan	GER
Skeet team, Women	Germany	GER	United States	USA	South Korea	KOR