1956 Shooting medal counts

                    Total    Gold   Silver  Bronze
Soviet Union           8       3       4       1
Canada                 2       1       0       1
Finland                2       1       0       1
Italy                  2       1       0       1
Romania                2       1       0       1
Sweden                 2       0       1       1
Czechoslovakia         1       0       1       0
Poland                 1       0       1       0
United States          1       0       0       1

Medal winners:
      Event                         Gold                          Silver                     Bronze                   
1956  Men's Three Positions Rifle   Vasili Borissov         URS   Allan Erdman         URS   Vilho Ylonen          FIN
1956  Men's Prone Rifle             Gerald Raymond Ouelette CAN   Vasili Borissov      URS   Gilmour St. Boa       CAN
1956  Men's Three Positions Rifle   Anatoli Bogdanov        URS   Otakar Horinek       TCH   Nils Johan Sundberg   SWE
1956  Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol       Stefan Petrescu         ROM   Evgeniy Schcherkasov URS   Gheorghe Lichiardopol ROM
1956  Men's Free Pistol             Pentti Linnosvuo        FIN   Makhmud Umarow       URS   Offutt Pinion         USA
1956  Men's Trap                    Galliano Rossini        ITA   Adam Smelczynski     POL   Alessandro Ciceri     ITA
1956  Men's Running Deer            Vitaly Romanenko        URS   Per Olof Skoldberg   SWE   Vladimir Sevrugin     URS