1954 ISSF World Shooting Championships

The 36th UIT World Shooting Championships was the contemporary name of the ISSF World Shooting Championships in all ISSF shooting events that were held in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1954.[1] It was the first time Venezuela hosted the competition (which it did again in 1982), and a new military shooting range had been constructed in the suburbs of Caracas for the event.[2]

After their successful debut in the 1952 Summer Olympics, the Soviet Union now participated for the first time in the World Championships, and won 20 of the 30 gold medals.[1] Rifle shooter Anatoli Bogdanov, the star of the 1952 shooting competitions in Helsinki, dominated once again with six individual and four team victories. He broke the world record in the 300 metre rifle three positions match with a margin of nine points.[3] In the shotgun events, the United States and Italy were still on top, but the shooting greatness of especially Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries had now diminished, shifting the tide eastward.

As in most other events, the Soviet team won the team championship in 25 metre center-fire pistol. The American marksman Arthur Jackson commented that the western shooters watched with a mixed sense of pity and relief as the Soviet team shot their archaic Nagant M1895 revolvers in the pre-event training. On the match day they revealed their practical joke and instead brought brand new American Smith & Wesson match revolvers, shooting the same kind of gun and ammunition as the individual champion, and winning three points ahead of the American team.[4]

Medal count
Rank Country Total
1 Soviet Union206733
2 Sweden49518
3 United States36211
4 Italy2103
5 Canada1001
6 Norway0459
7  Switzerland0325
8 Yugoslavia0101
9 Finland0066
10 Colombia0011
 Cuba0011
 Egypt0011

Rifle events
IndividualTeam
300 metre rifle three positions
 Anatoli Bogdanov (URS)1133  Soviet Union5607
 Vasily Borisov (URS)1132   Switzerland5505
 Vilho Ylönen (FIN)1126  Sweden5491
300 metre rifle prone
 Anatoli Bogdanov (URS)391 No team competition
 Vasily Borisov (URS)389
 Ernst Huber (SUI)388
300 metre rifle kneeling
 Anatoli Bogdanov (URS)380 No team competition
 J. Sundberg (SWE)379
 Vilho Ylönen (FIN)378
300 metre rifle standing
 Vasily Borisov (URS)366 No team competition
 August Hollenstein (SUI)363
 Anatoli Bogdanov (URS)362
300 metre standard rifle
 Walther Fröstell (SWE)514  Sweden2471
 Anders Kvissberg (SWE)513  Yugoslavia2448
 J. Matallana (COL)503  Finland2437
50 metre rifle three positions
 Anatoli Bogdanov (URS)1174  Soviet Union5802
 Vasily Borisov (URS)1172  Sweden5765
 Vilho Ylönen (FIN)1167  Norway5758
50+100 metre rifle prone
 Gilmour Boa (CAN)598  United States2373
 Kurt Johansson (SWE)596  Sweden2372
 August Westergaard (USA)596  Soviet Union2370
50 metre rifle prone
 Vasily Borisov (URS)399  Sweden1988
 Anders Kvissberg (SWE)399  Norway1986
 I. Aas (NOR)399  Soviet Union1986
50 metre rifle kneeling
 Anatoli Bogdanov (URS)396  Soviet Union1958
 Vasily Borisov (URS)393  Sweden1943
 Moysey Itkis (URS)393  Norway1921
50 metre rifle standing
 Anatoli Bogdanov (URS)380  Soviet Union1865
 Vasily Borisov (URS)380  Norway1850
 J. Sundberg (SWE)379   Switzerland1843

Pistol events
IndividualTeam
50 metre pistol
 Huelet Benner (USA)553  Soviet Union2722
 Torsten Ullman (SWE)552  United States2706
 A. Jasinsky (URS)552  Sweden2697
25 metre rapid fire pistol
 N. Kalinichenko (URS)584  Soviet Union2317
 William McMillan (USA)582  United States2292
 Pentti Linnosvuo (FIN)581  Finland2289
25 metre center-fire pistol
 Torsten Ullman (SWE)586  Soviet Union2319
 Huelet Benner (USA)585  United States2316
 William McMillan (USA)584  Cuba2263

Shotgun events
IndividualTeam
Trap
 C. Merlo (ITA)296  Italy773
 Galliano Rossini (ITA)293  Sweden768
 Hans Aasnæs (NOR)293  Egypt768
Skeet
 Chester Crites (USA)148 No team competition
 Kenneth Pendergrass (USA)145
 B. Malmgren (SWE)145

Running target events
IndividualTeam
100 metre running deer, double shot
 D. Bobrun (URS)213  Soviet Union828
 Vitali Romanenko (URS)206  Sweden804
 Vladimir Sevryugin (URS)206  Norway757
100 metre running deer, single shot
 Vitali Romanenko (URS)224  Soviet Union857
 Rolf Bergersen (NOR)221  Norway824
 N. Prosorovsky (URS)219  Sweden824
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References
  1. All World Championship medalists Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine at the ISSF website
  2. Hap Rocketto, The Art of Shooting, p. 53
  3. Shooting, Sports Illustrated, November 19, 1956
  4. Rocketto, p. 55
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