The Vicente Suárez Shooting Range was a temporary

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constructed in

Campo Militar 1 Campo Militar No. 1 () is a military installation located between Conscripto and Zapadores Avenue and the Belt Freeway in Mexico City. For the 1968 Summer Olympics, it hosted the riding and running portions of the modern pentathlon The modern p ...

for the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Mexico 1968 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico. These were the first Ol ...

. During those games, it hosted all of the

shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missile ...

events, the first time the competitions took place at the same location since 1928. It also hosted the shooting part of the

modern pentathlon The modern pentathlon is an Summer Olympics, Olympic multisport that consists of five events: fencing (one-touch épée followed by direct elimination), freestyle swimming, obstacle course racing, Laser pistol (sport), laser pistol shooting, and ...

competition.

References

1968 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 74–75. Venues of the 1968 Summer Olympics Defunct sports venues in Mexico Olympic modern pentathlon venues Olympic shooting venues {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub