The Vicente Suárez Shooting Range was a temporary

firing range A shooting range, firing range, gun range or shooting ground is a specialized facility, venue or field designed specifically for firearm usage qualifications, training, practice or competitions. Some shooting ranges are operated by militar ...

constructed in

Campo Militar 1 Campo Militar 1 ( en, Military Camp 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 ...

for the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...

. 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 missiles ...

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