Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Shooting at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	Bisley Ranges (rifle & pistol) Uxendon (shotgun)
Dates	8 – 11 July 1908
No. of events	15
Competitors	215 from 14 nations
←  1900 1912  →

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]

Competition schedule

Legend

Q

Qualification

F

Final

Schedule

Event ↓ / Date →	Wed 8			Thu 9			Fri 10			Sat 11
Rifle
Men's 1000 yd free rifle				F
Men's 300 m free rifle, 3 positions										F
Men's 300 m free rifle, team				F			F
Men's military rifle, team							F			F
Men's stationary target small-bore rifle										F
Men's moving target small-bore rifle										F
Men's disappearing target small-bore rifle										F
Men's team small-bore rifle										F
Pistol
Men's 50 yd pistol							F
Men's 50 yard team pistol										F
Shotgun
Men's trap	Q			Q						F
Men's team trap				Q			Q			F
Running deer
Men's single-shot running deer				F
Men's double-shot running deer				F			F
Men's team single-shot running deer							F

Medal summary

A total of 45 medals were won by 8 NOC's.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Great Britain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain*	6	7	8	21
2	United States	3	2	1	6
3	Sweden	2	2	1	5
4	Norway	2	0	1	3
5	Canada	1	2	1	4
6	Belgium	1	2	0	3
7	France	0	0	2	2
8	Greece	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		15	15	15	45

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1000 yd free rifle details	Joshua Millner  (GBR)	Kellogg Casey  (USA)	Maurice Blood  (GBR)
300 m free rifle, three positions details	Albert Helgerud  (NOR)	Harry Simon  (USA)	Ole Sæther  (NOR)
300 m free rifle, team details	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 details	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 details	Arthur Carnell  (GBR)	Harold Humby  (GBR)	George Barnes  (GBR)
Moving target small-bore rifle details	John Fleming  (GBR)	Maurice Matthews  (GBR)	William Marsden  (GBR)
Disappearing target small-bore rifle details	William Styles  (GBR)	Harold Hawkins  (GBR)	Edward Amoore  (GBR)
Team small-bore rifle details	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 details	Oscar Swahn  (SWE)	Ted Ranken  (GBR)	Alexander Rogers  (GBR)
Double-shot running deer details	Walter Winans  (USA)	Ted Ranken  (GBR)	Oscar Swahn  (SWE)
Team single-shot running deer details	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 details	Paul Van Asbroeck  (BEL)	Réginald Storms  (BEL)	James Gorman  (USA)
Team pistol details	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 details	Walter Ewing  (CAN)	George Beattie  (CAN)	Alexander Maunder  (GBR)   Anastasios Metaxas  (GRE) [2]
Team trap shooting details	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

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

•   Australasia  (1)
•   Belgium  (10)
•   Canada  (22)
•   Denmark  (10)
•   Finland  (9)
•   France  (20)
•   Germany  (1)
•   Great Britain  (67)
•   Greece  (7)
•   Hungary  (2)
•   Netherlands  (17)
•   Norway  (13)
•   Sweden  (19)
•   United States  (17)

Late arrival of the Russian team

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

1. "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

• 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.