Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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]

Medal summary

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

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	6	7	8	21
2	United States (USA)	3	2	1	6
3	Sweden (SWE)	2	2	1	5
4	Norway (NOR)	2	0	1	3
5	Canada (CAN)	1	2	1	4
6	Belgium (BEL)	1	2	0	3
7	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
8	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		15	15	15	45

Notes

"Shooting at the 1908 London Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
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.

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.

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[sports-reference-1] "Shooting at the 1908 London Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2014-02-05.

[Metaxas-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.

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