1959 European 300 m Rifle Championships

1959 European 300 m Rifle Championships
1959 European 300 m Rifle Championships
	The Finnish Vilho Ylönen, who won the silver medal in 300 m rifle prone.
Dates	25 - 26 August
Host city	Winterthur, Switzerland
Level	Senior
Events	6 men (5 individual + 1 team)
	← - 1977 →

The 1959 European 300 m Rifle Championships was the 1st edition of the European 300 m Rifle Championships, organised by the International Shooting Sport Federation.^[1]^[2]

Results[edit]

Event	Athletes	Pts	Athletes	Pts	Athletes	Pts
Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
300 m rifle 3 positions	Anatoly Bogdanov	1145	Mosey Itkish	1141	Esa Kervinen	1129
300 m rifle 3 positions, team	Soviet Union Anatoly Bogdanov Vasily Borisov Mosey Itkish Nikolay Sasulin		Finland Pauli Janhonen Esa Kervinen Jorma Taitto Vilho Ylönen		SUI August Hollenstein Kurt Müller Ernst Schmid Erwin Vogt
300 m rifle standard	Boris Pereberin	542	Mosey Itkish	538	Anatoly Tilik	537
300 m rifle kneeling	Anatoly Bogdanov	384	Mosey Itkish	383	Ole Hviid Jensen	379
300 m rifle standing	Anatoly Bogdanov	367	Mosey Itkish	365	Pauli Janhonen	365
300 m rifle prone	Anatoly Bogdanov	394	Vilho Ylönen	394	Mosey Itkish	393

Host country

v t e European Shooting Championships
All events	1955 1957 1959 1961 1963 1965 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021
Shotgun	1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1984 1985 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013 2014 2016 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2022 2023
10 m events	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022
25/50 m events	2022
Running target	1963 1969 1973 1975 1978 1981 1992 1995 1996 1997 1998 2013 2014 2019
300 m rifle	1959 1977 1981 1983 1985 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2022
Junior	1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 ~~2020~~
Deaf	1967 1972 1976 1980 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
List of medalists (shooting) List of medalists (shotgun)