Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 300 metre free rifle, team

Men's team free rifle at the Games of the V Olympiad
Shooting pictogram
Venue	Kaknäs
Date	4 July 1912
Competitors	42 from 7 nations
Winning score	5655
Medalists
Sweden Carl Björkman Erik Blomqvist Mauritz Eriksson Hugo Johansson Gustaf Adolf Jonsson Bernhard Larsson   Norway Albert Helgerud Einar Liberg Østen Østensen Olaf Sæther Ole Sæther Gudbrand Skatteboe   Denmark Niels Andersen Jens Hajslund Laurits Larsen Niels Larsen Lars Jørgen Madsen Ole Olsen
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The men's 300 metre team free rifle was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the third appearance of the event. The competition was held on Thursday, 4 July 1912. ^[1] Forty-two sport shooters from seven nations competed. The event was won by Sweden, the nation's first victory in the event, improving on a silver-medal performance in 1908. Defending champions Norway reached the podium for the third consecutive time, taking silver this time. Denmark earned its first medal in the men's 300 metre team free rifle with bronze.

Ole Sæther had been a member of Norway's two prior teams as well, so became the first man with three medals in the event. He had been the only man with multiple medals; five others (Albert Helgerud, Gudbrand Skatteboe, Einar Liberg, and Olaf Sæther of Norway and Gustaf Adolf Jonsson of Sweden) each earned their second in 1912.

Background

This was the third appearance of the men's 300 metre team rifle event, which was held 4 times between 1900 and 1920. ^{[2] [3]}

South Africa and the Russian Empire each made their debut in the event. Denmark, France, and Norway each made their third appearance, having competed in each edition of the event to date.

Competition format

The competition had each shooter fire 120 shots, 40 shots in each of three positions: prone, kneeling, and standing. The target was 1 metre in diameter, with 10 scoring rings; targets were set at a distance of 300 metres. The six team members' scores were then summed. Thus, the maximum score possible was 7200 points. The scores for the team event were separate from the individual event this time. ^[3]

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
Thursday, 4 July 1912	11:00	Final

Results

Rank	Nation	Shooter	Score
	Sweden	Sweden total	5655
		Mauritz Eriksson	976
		Hugo Johansson	975
		Erik Blomqvist	962
		Carl Björkman	954
		Bernhard Larsson	914
		Gustaf Adolf Jonsson	874
	Norway	Norway total	5602
		Gudbrand Skatteboe	945
		Ole Sæther	945
		Østen Østensen	940
		Albert Helgerud	938
		Olaf Sæther	935
		Einar Liberg	902
	Denmark	Denmark total	5570
		Ole Olsen	983
		Lars Jørgen Madsen	973
		Niels Larsen	931
		Niels Andersen	896
		Laurits Larsen	890
		Jens Hajslund	856
4	France	France total	5471
		Paul Colas	1004
		Louis Percy	931
		Léon Johnson	908
		Pierre Gentil	899
		Raoul de Boigne	874
		Auguste Marion	855
5	Finland	Finland total	5323
		Voitto Kolho	951
		Heikki Huttunen	946
		Gustaf Nyman	897
		Emil Holm	845
		Huvi Tuiskunen	844
		Vilho Vauhkonen	840
6	South Africa	South Africa total	4897
		George Harvey	887
		Robert Bodley	857
		Robert Patterson	839
		Arthur Smith	821
		Ernest Keeley	812
		George Whelan	681
7	Russian Empire	Russian Empire total	4892
		Pavel Valden	860
		Feofan Lebedev	827
		Aleksandr Tillo	822
		Dmitry Kuskov	811
		Konstantin Kalinin	803
		Pavel Lesh	769

References

1. "Shooting at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres, Team". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
2. "Historical Results". ISSF. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
3. "Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres, Team, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

External links

• 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 21 January 2007.