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Venue	Beverloo Camp; Hoogboom Military Camp
Dates	22 July-3 August 1920
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At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, 21 events in shooting were contested. A contested 22nd event may have taken place as a list of medal winners are known but the event is unknown.^[1]^[2]

The competitions were held from 22 July 1920 to 3 August 1920, with Beverloo Camp hosting the pistol and rifle events, and the Olympic trap and 100 metre running deer held at Hoogboom Military Camp.^[3]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
30 m rapid fire pistol details	Guilherme Paraense (BRA)	Raymond Bracken (USA)	Fritz Zulauf (SUI)
Team 30 m military pistol details	United States (USA) Karl Frederick Louis Harant Michael Kelly Alfred Lane James H. Snook	Greece (GRE) Georgios Moraitinis Iason Sappas Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Alexandros Vrasivanopoulos	Switzerland (SUI) Gustave Amoudruz Hans Egli Domenico Giambonini Joseph Jehle Fritz Zulauf
50 m free pistol details	Karl Frederick (USA)	Afrânio da Costa (BRA)	Alfred Lane (USA)
Team 50 m free pistol details	United States (USA) Raymond Bracken Karl Frederick Michael Kelly Alfred Lane James H. Snook	Sweden (SWE) Anders Andersson Gunnar Gabrielsson Sigvard Hultcrantz Anders Johnson Casimir Reuterskiöld	Brazil (BRA) Dario Barbosa Afrânio da Costa Guilherme Paraense Fernando Soledade Sebastião Wolf
50 m small bore rifle details	Lawrence Nuesslein (USA)	Arthur Rothrock (USA)	Dennis Fenton (USA)
Team 50 m small bore rifle details	United States (USA) Dennis Fenton Willis A. Lee Lawrence Nuesslein Arthur Rothrock Oliver Schriver	Sweden (SWE) Oscar Eriksson Sigvard Hultcrantz Leon Lagerlöf Erik Ohlsson Ragnar Stare	Norway (NOR) Albert Helgerud Sigvart Johansen Anton Olsen Østen Østensen Olaf Sletten
300 m free rifle, 3 positions details	Morris Fisher (USA)	Niels Larsen (DEN)	Østen Østensen (NOR)
Team free rifle, 3 positions details	United States (USA) Dennis Fenton Morris Fisher Willis A. Lee Carl Osburn Lloyd Spooner	Norway (NOR) Albert Helgerud Otto Olsen Østen Østensen Gudbrand Skatteboe Olaf Sletten	Switzerland (SUI) Gustave Amoudruz Ulrich Fahrner Fritz Kuchen Werner Schneeberger Bernard Siegenthaler
300 m military rifle, prone details	Otto Olsen (NOR)	Léon Johnson (FRA)	Fritz Kuchen (SUI)
Team 300 m military rifle, prone details	United States (USA) Morris Fisher Joseph Jackson Willis A. Lee Carl Osburn Lloyd Spooner	France (FRA) Léon Johnson André Parmentier Achille Paroche Georges Roes Émile Rumeau	Finland (FIN) Voitto Kolho Kalle Lappalainen Veli Nieminen Vilho Vauhkonen Magnus Wegelius
300 m military rifle, standing details	Carl Osburn (USA)	Lars Jørgen Madsen (DEN)	Lawrence Nuesslein (USA)
Team 300 m military rifle, standing details	Denmark (DEN) Niels Larsen Lars Jørgen Madsen Anders Peter Nielsen Anders Petersen Erik Sætter-Lassen	United States (USA) Thomas Brown Willis A. Lee Lawrence Nuesslein Carl Osburn Lloyd Spooner	Sweden (SWE) Olle Ericsson Mauritz Eriksson Walfrid Hellman Hugo Johansson Leon Lagerlöf
600 m military rifle, prone details	Hugo Johansson (SWE)	Mauritz Eriksson (SWE)	Lloyd Spooner (USA)
Team 600 m military rifle, prone details	United States (USA) Dennis Fenton Joseph Jackson Willis A. Lee Oliver Schriver Lloyd Spooner	South Africa (RSA) Robert Bodley Ferdinand Buchanan George Harvey Fred Morgan David Smith	Sweden (SWE) Erik Blomqvist Mauritz Eriksson Hugo Johansson Gustaf Adolf Jonsson Erik Ohlsson
Team 300 + 600 m military rifle, prone details	United States (USA) Joseph Jackson Willis A. Lee Carl Osburn Oliver Schriver Lloyd Spooner	Norway (NOR) Albert Helgerud Otto Olsen Jacob Onsrud Østen Østensen Olaf Sletten	Switzerland (SUI) Eugene Addor Joseph Jehle Fritz Kuchen Werner Schneeberger Weibel
100 m running deer, single shots details	Otto Olsen (NOR)	Alfred Swahn (SWE)	Harald Natvig (NOR)
Team 100 m running deer, single shots details	Norway (NOR) Einar Liberg Ole Lilloe-Olsen Harald Natvig Hans Nordvik Otto Olsen	Finland (FIN) Yrjö Kolho Kalle Lappalainen Toivo Tikkanen Nestori Toivonen Magnus Wegelius	United States (USA) Thomas Brown Willis A. Lee Lawrence Nuesslein Carl Osburn Lloyd Spooner
100 m running deer, double shots details	Ole Lilloe-Olsen (NOR)	Fredric Landelius (SWE)	Einar Liberg (NOR)
Team 100 m running deer, double shots details	Norway (NOR) Thorstein Johansen Einar Liberg Ole Lilloe-Olsen Harald Natvig Hans Nordvik	Sweden (SWE) Edward Benedicks Bengt Lagercrantz Fredric Landelius Alfred Swahn Oscar Swahn	Finland (FIN) Yrjö Kolho Toivo Tikkanen Nestori Toivonen Vilho Vauhkonen Magnus Wegelius
Trap details	Mark Arie (USA)	Frank Troeh (USA)	Frank Wright (USA)
Team trap details	United States (USA) Mark Arie Horace Bonser Jay Clark Forest McNeir Frank Troeh Frank Wright	Belgium (BEL) Albert Bosquet Joseph Cogels Émile Dupont Edouard Fesinger Henri Quersin Louis Van Tilt	Sweden (SWE) Per Kinde Fredric Landelius Erik Lundquist Karl Richter Erik Sökjer-Petersén Alfred Swahn

Participating nations

A total of 234 shooters from 18 nations competed at the Antwerp Games:^[3]

Belgium (29)
Brazil (5)
Canada (7)
Czechoslovakia (8)
Denmark (15)^[4]
Finland (9)
France (17)
Great Britain (7)
Greece (9)
Italy (10)
Netherlands (15)
Norway (16)
Portugal (5)
South Africa (7)
Spain (7)
Sweden (28)
Switzerland (15)
United States (29)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	13	4	6	23
2	Norway (NOR)	5	2	4	11
3	Sweden (SWE)	1	6	3	10
4	Denmark (DEN)	1	2	0	3
5	Brazil (BRA)	1	1	1	3
6	France (FRA)	0	2	0	2
7	Finland (FIN)	0	1	2	3
8	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	1	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	0	1
11	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	5	5
Totals (11 entries)		21	21	21	63

References

^ "Shooting at the 1920 Summer Olympics". Retrieved 2 May 2024.
^ "Unknown Event, Men". Retrieved 2 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Shooting at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
^ De Wael counts 16 for Denmark (giving a total of 235), saying that Anton Andersen competed in the free rifle, while a separate shooter named Anders Andersen competed in the military rifle. Sports-Reference, however, indicates that these are the same person.

External links

"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 30 December 2006.

[SHO-1] "Shooting at the 1920 Summer Olympics". Retrieved 2 May 2024.

[UNK-2] "Unknown Event, Men". Retrieved 2 May 2024.

[sports-reference-3] "Shooting at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2014.

[Anton_Andersen-4] De Wael counts 16 for Denmark (giving a total of 235), saying that Anton Andersen competed in the free rifle, while a separate shooter named Anders Andersen competed in the military rifle. Sports-Reference, however, indicates that these are the same person.

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