Shooting at the 1924 Summer Olympics
| Shooting at the Games of the VIII Olympiad | |
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| Dates | 23 June-9 July 1924 |
At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, ten events in shooting were contested. These would be the last Games in which team events were part of the Olympic shooting program. The competitions were held from 23 June 1924 to 9 July 1924 at the shooting ranges at Versailles, Reims, Camp de Châlons (Mourmelon), and Issy-les-Moulineaux.[1]
| Shooting at the 1924 Summer Olympics | |
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| Rifle | |
| 50 m small-bore rifle | men |
| 600 m free rifle prone | men |
| Team free rifle | men |
| Pistol | |
| 25 m rapid fire 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 |
Medal summary
[edit]Notes:
- For the team free rifle the IOC medal database lists also Léon Johnson and André Parmentier as silver medalists for France; and L. H. Clermont and C. Dupre as bronze medalists for Haiti, but all these shooters never participated in this competition.
- For the team running deer, single shots the IOC medal database lists also Hans Nordvik and Oluf Wesmann-Kjær as gold medalists for Norway; and Karl Richter and Karl-Gustaf Svensson as silver medalists for Sweden, but all these shooters never participated in this competition.
- For the team running deer, double shots the IOC medal database lists also John Faunthorpe and John O'Leary as gold medalists for Great Britain; Hans Nordvik and Oluf Wesmann-Kjær as silver medalists for Norway; and Edward Benedicks and Karl-Gustaf Svensson as bronze medalists for Sweden, but all these shooters never participated in this competition.
- For the team trap the IOC medal database lists all six team members as medalists. The shooters below the line were the weakest of their teams and their scores did not count for the team score.
Participating nations
[edit]A total of 258 sport shooters from 27 nations competed at the Paris Games:[1]
Argentina (8)
Austria (6)
Belgium (14)
Brazil (1)
Canada (6)
Czechoslovakia (18)
Denmark (7)
Egypt (1)
Finland (15)
France (22)
Great Britain (22)
Greece (7)
Haiti (5)
Hungary (7)
Italy (14)
Mexico (2)
Monaco (4)
Netherlands (11)
Norway (13)
Poland (7)
Portugal (8)
Romania (5)
South Africa (7)
Spain (1)
Sweden (19)
Switzerland (7)
United States (21)
Medal table
[edit]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States (USA) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 |  Norway (NOR) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 |  Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 |  France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 |  Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 |  Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 |  Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 |  Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 |  Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Haiti (HAI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (11 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Shooting at the 1924 Paris Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
External links
[edit]- "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 29 December 2006.
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