1972 Shooting medal counts

                                    Total    Gold   Silver  Bronze
United States                          4       2       2       0
Soviet Union                           4       1       2       1
Italy                                  2       1       0       1
Romania                                2       0       1       1
East Germany                           2       0       0       2
North Korea (PDR of Korea)             1       1       0       0
Poland                                 1       1       0       0
Sweden                                 1       1       0       0
West Germany                           1       1       0       0
Columbia                               1       0       1       0
Czechoslovakia                         1       0       1       0
France                                 1       0       1       0
Austria                                1       0       0       1
Hungary                                1       0       0       1
United Kingdom (Great Britain)         1       0       0       1

Medal winners:
      Event                         Gold                   Silver                   Bronze              
1972  Men's Three Positions Rifle   Lones Wigger     USA   Boris Melnik       URS   Lajos Papp       HUN
1972  Men's Prone Rifle             Ho Jun Li        PRK   Viktor Auer        USA   Nicolae Rotaru   ROM
1972  Men's Three Positions Rifle   John Writer      USA   Lanny Bassham      USA   Werner Lippoldt  GDR
1972  Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol       Josef Zapedszki  POL   Ladislav Faita     TCH   Viktor Torshin   URS
1972  Men's Free Pistol             Ragnar Shanakar  SWE   Dan Iuga           ROM   Rudolf Dollinger AUT
1972  Men's Running Game Target     Lakov Zhelezniak URS   Helmut Bellingrodt COL   John Kynoch      GBR
1972  Men's Skeet                   Konrad Wirnhier  FRG   Evgeny Petrov      URS   Michael Buchheim GDR
1972  Men's Trap                    Angelo Scalzone  ITA   Michael Carrega    FRA   Silvano Basagni  ITA