Shooting at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Sports shooting at the Olympics

Shooting

at the Games of the VII Olympiad

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]

Shooting at the
1920 Summer Olympics

Rifle
50 m small-bore rifle| men
Team 50 m small-bore rifle| men
300 m free rifle, 3 positions| men
300 m free rifle, team| men
300 m military rifle, prone| men
Team 300 m military rifle, prone| men
300 m military rifle, standing| men
Team 300 m military rifle, standing| men
600 m military rifle, prone| men
Team 600 m military rifle, prone| men
Team 300 + 600 m military rifle, prone| men
Pistol
30 m rapid fire pistol| men
Team 30 m rapid fire pistol| men
50 m pistol| men
Team 50 m pistol| men
Shotgun
Trap| men
Team clay pigeons| men
Running deer
100 m running deer, single shots| men
Team 100 m running deer, single shots| men
100 m running deer, double shots| men
Team 100 m running deer, double shots| men

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## Medal summary

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

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The Norwegian team The Swedish team Carl Johansson and Mauritz Eriksson

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

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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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

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1. ^ "Shooting at the 1920 Summer Olympics". Retrieved 2 May 2024.
2. ^ "Unknown Event, Men". Retrieved 2 May 2024.
3. ^ a b "Shooting at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
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.

## External links

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

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