Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 meter team running deer, single shots

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100 meter team running deer, single shots
at the Games of the V Olympiad
VenueRåsunda
Date4 July
Competitors20 from 5 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Sweden (SWE)
Per-Olof Arvidsson, Åke Lundeberg, Alfred Swahn, Oscar Swahn
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States (USA)
William Leushner, William Libbey, William McDonnell, Walter Winans
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Finland (FIN)
Axel Fredrik Londen, Ernst Rosenqvist, Nestori Toivonen, Iivar Väänänen
← 1908
1920 →

The men's 100 meter team running deer, single shots was a shooting sports event held as part of the shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the second appearance of the event, which had been introduced in 1908. The competition was held on Thursday, 4 July 1912.[1]

Twenty sport shooters from five nations competed.

Oscar Swahn was 64 years and 258 days old when he won gold as part of the Swedish team. This remains the record for the oldest person to win Olympic gold.[2]

Results[edit]

Place Team Ind. score Team score
1  Sweden (SWE) 151
Oscar Swahn 43
Åke Lundeberg 39
Alfred Swahn 37
Per-Olof Arvidsson 32
2  United States (USA) 132
Walter Winans 39
William Leushner 38
William Libbey 37
William McDonnell 18
3  Finland (FIN) 123
Nestori Toivonen 38
Iivar Väänänen 30
Axel Fredrik Londen 29
Ernst Rosenqvist 26
4  Austria (AUT) 115
Peter Paternelli 34
Adolf Michel 33
Heinrich Elbogen 29
Eberhard Steinböck 19
5  Russian Empire (RU1) 108
Vasily Skrotsky 36
Dmitri Barkov 26
Harry Blau 23
Aleksandr Dobrzhansky 23

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Shooting at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Men's Running Target, Single Shot, Team". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Oldest Olympic gold medallist". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 23 February 2018.

External links[edit]

  • Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.). (ed.). The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  • Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 26 January 2007.