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Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre rifle three positions

Sports shooting at the Olympics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ20982558 ↗
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The mixed 50 metre rifle three positions shooting competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 23 July at the Dynamo Shooting Range in Moscow, Soviet Union. The gold medal went to Soviet Viktor Vlasov, who broke the world record with 1,173.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Shooting, Summer and Olympics providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre rifle three positions” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.