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The '''1959 World Shotgun Championships''' were held in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]], the [[United Arab Republic]].

== Medal count ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 95%"
! Rank
! Country
! [[Image:Med 1.png|Gold]]
! [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]]
! [[Image:Med 3.png|Bronze]]
! Total
|-
|rowspan=2| 1
|style="text-align: left"| {{ITA}} || 1 || 1 || 1 || 3
|-
|style="text-align: left"| {{flag|Soviet Union|1955}} || 1 || 1 || 1 || 3
|-style="background: #ccccff"
| 3 ||style="text-align: left"| {{flag|Egypt|1958}} || 1 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
| 4 ||style="text-align: left"| {{LIB}} || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1
|}

== Results ==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%"
!colspan=3| Individual !!colspan=3| Team
|-
|colspan=6 style="background:#dcdcdc"| '''[[Olympic Trap|Trap]]'''
|-
| [[Image:Med 1.png|Gold]]   || {{flagathlete|[[Hassan Badrawi]]|EGY|1958}}                  || 293
| [[Image:Med 1.png|Gold]]   || {{ITA}}                                                     || 578
|-
| [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]] || {{flagathlete|[[Edoardo Casciano]]|ITA}}                    || 292
| [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]] || {{LIB}}                                                     || 572
|-
| [[Image:Med 3.png|Bronze]] || {{flagathlete|[[Galliano Rossini]]|ITA}}                    || 290
| [[Image:Med 3.png|Bronze]] || {{flag|Egypt|1958}}                                          || 569
|-
|colspan=6 style="background:#dcdcdc"| '''[[Olympic Skeet|Skeet]]'''
|-
| [[Image:Med 1.png|Gold]]   || {{flagathlete|[[Oleg Losev (sport shooter)|Oleg Losev]]|URS|1955}} || 195
|-
| [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]] || {{flagathlete|[[Yury Curanov]]|URS|1955}}                   || 192
|-
| [[Image:Med 3.png|Bronze]] || {{flagathlete|[[Nikolay Curnev]]|URS|1955}}                 || 191
|}

== References ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927023531/http://www.issf-shooting.org/_data/medallist/WCH_Medallists_1897_2005.pdf All WCH medallists] (ISSF website)

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