The 35th UIT World Shooting Championships was the contemporary name of the ISSF World Shooting Championships in all ISSF shooting events held in Oslo, Norway, in 1952, only weeks before the 1952 Summer Olympics.[1] It was the only World Shooting Championship between 1912 and 2008 to be conducted in an Olympic year.
Medal count edit
| Rank | Country | 
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Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States |
8 | 3 | 7 | 18 |
| 2 |  Switzerland |
7 | 6 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 |  Norway |
6 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 4 |  Sweden |
5 | 8 | 6 | 19 |
| 5 |  Finland |
3 | 5 | 4 | 12 |
| 6 |  Argentina |
1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 |  Canada |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Denmark |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Egypt |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Romania |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 11 |  Germany |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Italy |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Mexico |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Rifle events edit
Pistol events edit
| Individual | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 m Pistol | |||||
| |
Torsten Ullman (SWE) |
558 | |
Sweden |
2718 |
| |
Åke Lindblom (SWE) |
555 | |
Switzerland |
2698 |
| |
Huelet Benner (USA) |
555 | |
Finland |
2671 |
| 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol | |||||
| |
Huelet Benner (USA) |
582 | |
United States |
2304 |
| |
Penait Calcai (ROU) |
581 | |
Finland |
2272 |
| |
Carlos Saenz Valiente (ARG) |
581 | |
Argentina |
2264 |
| 25 m Center-Fire Pistol | |||||
| |
Harry Reeves (USA) |
579 | |
United States |
2304 |
| |
Walter Walsh (USA) |
576 | |
Sweden |
2234 |
| |
Huelet Benner (USA) |
576 | |
Mexico |
2207 |
Shotgun events edit
| Individual | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trap | |||||
| |
Pablo Grossi (ARG) |
287 | |
Sweden |
754 |
| |
George Genereux (CAN) |
286 | |
Egypt |
746 |
| |
Knut Holmqvist (SWE) |
286 | |
Italy |
743 |
| Skeet | |||||
| |
C. T. Edwinson (USA) |
150 | No team competition | ||
| |
Cecil Jones (USA) |
149 | |||
| |
Charles Michaelis (USA) |
148 | |||
Running target events edit
| Individual | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m Running Deer Double Shot | |||||
| |
John Larsen (NOR) |
206 | |
Norway |
759 |
| |
Bengt Austrin (SWE) |
201 | |
Finland |
744 |
| |
Karl Bokman (SWE) |
195 | |
Sweden |
722 |
| 100 m Running Deer Single Shot | |||||
| |
John Larsen (NOR) |
210 | |
Norway |
805 |
| |
Rolf Bergersen (NOR) |
209 | |
Sweden |
797 |
| |
Karl Bokman (SWE) |
209 | |
Finland |
777 |
References edit
- ^ Farewell "Joe" Benner Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, Military Marksmanship Association
External links edit
- All WCH medallists (ISSF website), which incorrectly gives 1950 as the year of this competition