Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London saw fifteen shooting events. Most of the events were held at Bisley, Surrey while the trap shooting events were held at Uxendon.[1]

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
1000 yd free rifle
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 Joshua Millner (GBR)  Kellogg Casey (USA)  Maurice Blood (GBR)
300 m free rifle, three positions
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 Albert Helgerud (NOR)  Harry Simon (USA)  Ole Sæther (NOR)
300 m free rifle, team
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 Norway (NOR)
Julius Braathe
Albert Helgerud
Einar Liberg
Olaf Sæther
Ole Sæther
Gudbrand Skatteboe
 Sweden (SWE)
Per-Olof Arvidsson
Janne Gustafsson
Axel Jansson
Gustaf Adolf Jonsson
Claës Rundberg
Gustav-Adolf Sjöberg
 France (FRA)
Eugène Balme
Raoul de Boigne
Albert Courquin
Léon Johnson
Maurice Lecoq
André Parmentier
Team military rifle
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 United States (USA)
Charles Benedict
Kellogg Casey
Ivan Eastman
William Leuschner
William Martin
Charles Winder
 Great Britain (GBR)
Arthur Fulton
John Martin
Harcourt Ommundsen
Walter Padgett
Philip Richardson
Fleetwood Varley
 Canada (CAN)
Charles Crowe
William Eastcott
Harry Kerr
Dugald McInnis
William Smith
Bertram Williams
Stationary target small-bore rifle
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 Arthur Carnell (GBR)  Harold Humby (GBR)  George Barnes (GBR)
Moving target small-bore rifle
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 John Fleming (GBR)  Maurice Matthews (GBR)  William Marsden (GBR)
Disappearing target small-bore rifle
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 William Styles (GBR)  Harold Hawkins (GBR)  Edward Amoore (GBR)
Team small-bore rifle
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 Great Britain (GBR)
Edward Amoore
Harold Humby
Maurice Matthews
William Pimm
 Sweden (SWE)
Eric Carlberg
Vilhelm Carlberg
Johan Hübner von Holst
Franz-Albert Schartau
 France (FRA)
Henri Bonnefoy
Paul Colas
Léon Lécuyer
André Regaud
Single-shot running deer
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 Oscar Swahn (SWE)  Ted Ranken (GBR)  Alexander Rogers (GBR)
Double-shot running deer
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 Walter Winans (USA)  Ted Ranken (GBR)  Oscar Swahn (SWE)
Team single-shot running deer
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 Sweden (SWE)
Arvid Knöppel
Ernst Rosell
Alfred Swahn
Oscar Swahn
 Great Britain (GBR)
William Ellicott
William Russell Lane-Joynt
Charles Nix
Ted Ranken
none awarded
Individual pistol
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 Paul Van Asbroeck (BEL)  Réginald Storms (BEL)  James Gorman (USA)
Team pistol
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 United States (USA)
Charles Axtell
Irving Calkins
John Dietz
James Gorman
 Belgium (BEL)
René Englebert
Charles Paumier du Verger
Réginald Storms
Paul Van Asbroeck
 Great Britain (GBR)
Geoffrey Coles
William Ellicott
Henry Lynch-Staunton
Jesse Wallingford
Individual trap shooting
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 Walter Ewing (CAN)  George Beattie (CAN)  Alexander Maunder (GBR)
 Anastasios Metaxas (GRE)[2]
Team trap shooting
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 Great Britain (GBR)
Percy Easte
Alexander Maunder
Frederic Moore
Charles Palmer
John Pike
John Postans
 Canada (CAN)
George Beattie
Walter Ewing
Mylie Fletcher
David McMackon
George Vivian
Arthur Westover
 Great Britain (GBR)
John Butt
Henry Creasey
Bob Hutton
William Morris
George Skinner
George Whitaker

Participating nations

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A total of 215 shooters from 14 nations competed at the London Games:[1]

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Great Britain (GBR)67821
2 United States (USA)3216
3 Sweden (SWE)2215
4 Norway (NOR)2013
5 Canada (CAN)1214
6 Belgium (BEL)1203
7 France (FRA)0022
8 Greece (GRE)0011
Totals (8 entries)15151545

Late arrival of the Russian team

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Some sources claim that the Russian shooting team was 13 days late to the Olympics due to the Russian Empire still using the Julian calendar as opposed to the rest of Europe, which used the Gregorian system.[3] The official report does not mention Russia, and it does mention Italy and Australia as "absent".[4] Other authors doubt of this claim , and underlie that Russia had been living next to Gregorian-calendar Europe for two centuries and was used to the difference [5]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b "Shooting at the 1908 London Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
  2. ^ Metaxas is generally credited with a bronze medal; no tie-breaker was held. The 1908 official report at p. 280 lists Metaxas as having tied with Maunder and assigns bronze medals to each. However, Metaxas does not appear in the IOC medal database, which lists only Maunder as sole bronze medalist. Some sources follow this database.
  3. ^ Keown, Eric (1949). Lemon, Mark (ed.). "[unknown]". Punch. 217: 35. Retrieved 28 June 2024. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  4. ^ "Official Report 1908 page 295". digital.la84.org. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
  5. ^ "Was Russia really late for the Olympics in 1908? (It won medals anyway!)". www.rbth.com. Retrieved 2022-01-27.

References

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  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
  • De Wael, Herman (2001). "Shooting 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 12 May 2006.