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The 39th UIT World Shooting Championships was the contemporary name of the ISSF World Shooting Championships in all ISSF shooting events that were held in Wiesbaden, West Germany in 1966.

Medal count

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	17	6	6	29
2	Soviet Union (URS)	10	14	9	33
3	Poland (POL)	2	3	4	9
4	Romania (ROU)	1	3	0	4
5	Switzerland (SUI)	1	2	1	4
	West Germany (FRG)*	1	2	1	4
7	East Germany (GDR)	1	1	5	7
8	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	2	3
9	Chile (CHI)	1	0	0	1
10	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	2	3
11	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	0	1
14	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
15	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	South Africa (SAF)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		35	35	35	105

Rifle events

Men

Individual			Teams
300 metre rifle three positions
	Gary Anderson (USA)	1156		United States	4602
	Alexander Gerasimenok (URS)	1154		Soviet Union	4573
	John Foster (USA)	1153		Switzerland	4535
300 metre rifle prone
	Kurt Johansson (SWE)	398	No championship
	Magne Landroe (NOR)	398
	Marat Niyazov (URS)	397
300 metre rifle kneeling
	John Foster (USA)	391	No championship
	Alexander Gerasimenok (URS)	389
	Kurt Johansson (SWE)	388
300 metre rifle standing
	Kurt Müller (SUI)	375	No championship
	Gary Anderson (USA)	375
	Alexander Gerasimenok (URS)	370
300 metre standard rifle
	Ludwig Lustberg (URS)	558		Soviet Union	2185
	Vladimir Konyakhin (URS)	552		Switzerland	2168
	Gary Anderson (USA)	550		United States	2161
50 metre rifle three positions
	Gary Anderson (USA)	1155		United States	4589
	Marat Niyazov (URS)	1150		Soviet Union	4572
	Henryk Górski (POL)	1148		East Germany	4555
50 metre rifle prone
	David Boyd (USA)	598		United States	2376
	Jerzy Nowicki (POL)	596		Poland	2371
	Bill Krilling (USA)	596		Soviet Union	2364
50 metre rifle kneeling
	Vladimir Konyakhin (URS)	390		United States	1542
	Marat Niyazov (URS)	389		Soviet Union	1542
	Michael Victor (RSA)	389		Poland	1537
50 metre rifle standing
	Gary Anderson (USA)	372		East Germany	1467
	Werner Lippoldt (GDR)	371		Soviet Union	1464
	Hartmut Sommer (GDR)	370		United States	1460
50 metre standard rifle
	Donald Adams (USA)	567		United States	2243
	Gary Anderson (USA)	565		Soviet Union	2215
	Hartmut Sommer (GDR)	562		East Germany	2215

Women

Individual			Teams
50 metre rifle three positions
	Margaret Thompson (USA)	558	No championship
	Anneliese Goth (FRG)	545
	Tatiana Ryabinskaya (URS)	544
50 metre rifle prone
	Eulalia Zakrzewska (POL)	591		Poland	1747
	Margaret Thompson (USA)	589		United States	1743
	Ferenene Kun (HUN)	585		Hungary	1732

Pistol events

Men

Individual			Teams
50 metre pistol
	Vladimir Stolypin (URS)	556		Soviet Union	2203
	Dentcho Todorov Denev (BUL)	555		Switzerland	2186
	Hynek Hromada (TCH)	553		Poland	2183
25 metre rapid fire pistol
	Virgil Atanasiu (ROU)	596		Soviet Union	2354
	Józef Zapędzki (POL)	594		Romania	2354
	Renart Suleimanov (URS)	593		East Germany	2346
25 metre center-fire pistol
	William Blankenship (USA)	595		United States	2341
	Lubomír Nácovský (TCH)	589		Soviet Union	2340
	Renart Suleimanov (URS)	587		Czechoslovakia	2313

Women

Individual
25 metre pistol
	Nina Raskazova (URS)	582
	Alexandra Sarina (URS)	581
	Susan Swallow (GBR)	575

Shotgun events

Men

Individual			Teams
Trap
	Ken Jones (USA)	297		United States	768
	Gheorghe Enache (ROU)	292		Romania	764
	Pavel Senichev (URS)	292		Soviet Union	757
Skeet
	Jorge Jottar (CHI)	197		United States	383
	Hans Suppli (FRG)	196		Soviet Union	381
	Artur Rogowski (POL)	195		West Germany	380

Women

Individual
Trap
	Elisabeth von Soden (FRG)	95
	Charlotte Berkenkamp (USA)	90
	Valentina Gerasina (URS)	89
Skeet
	Claudia Smirnova (URS)	91
	Mercedes Garcia (VEN)	88
	Michele Valery (FRA)	83

Running target events

Individual			Teams
50 metre running target
	Vladimir Veselov (URS)	164		Soviet Union	637
	Iogan Nikitin (URS)	164		United States	604
	John Kingeter (USA)	161		Sweden	586

References