Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics

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Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics
20 metre military pistol	men
50 metre free pistol	men
50 metre free pistol, team	men
Trap shooting	men
300 metre free rifle, standing	men
300 metre free rifle, kneeling	men
300 metre free rifle, prone	men
300 metre free rifle, three positions	men
300 metre free rifle, team	men
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At the 1900 Summer Olympics, 9 shooting events were included. Many other shooting events were featured in Paris at about the same time, but only 9 events are considered Olympic by the International Olympic Committee. The competitions were held from August 3, 1900, to August 5, 1900.

Contents

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  1 Medal summary
  


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  2 Non-Olympic events
  


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  3 Participating nations
  


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  4 Medal table
  


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  5 References
  


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  6 Bibliography
  

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
20 metre rapid fire pistol details	Maurice Larrouy  France	Léon Moreaux  France	Eugène Balme  France
50 metre free pistol, individual details	Karl Röderer  Switzerland	Achille Paroche  France	Konrad Stäheli  Switzerland
50 metre free pistol, team details	Switzerland (SUI) Friedrich Lüthi Paul Probst Louis Richardet Karl Röderer Konrad Stäheli	France (FRA) Louis Duffoy Maurice Lecoq Léon Moreaux Achille Paroche Jules Trinité	Netherlands (NED) Solko van den Bergh Antonius Bouwens Dirk Boest Gips Henrik Sillem Anthony Sweijs
300 metre free rifle, standing details	Lars Jørgen Madsen  Denmark	Ole Østmo  Norway	Charles Paumier  Belgium
300 metre free rifle, kneeling details	Konrad Stäheli  Switzerland	Emil Kellenberger  Switzerland Anders Peter Nielsen  Denmark	None awarded
300 metre free rifle, prone details	Achille Paroche  France	Anders Peter Nielsen  Denmark	Ole Østmo  Norway
300 metre free rifle, 3 positions details	Emil Kellenberger  Switzerland	Anders Peter Nielsen  Denmark	Paul van Asbroeck  Belgium Ole Østmo  Norway
300 metre free rifle, team details	Switzerland (SUI) Franz Böckli Alfred Grütter Emil Kellenberger Louis Richardet Konrad Stäheli	Norway (NOR) Olaf Frydenlund Hellmer Hermandsen Ole Østmo Ole Sæther Tom Seeberg	France (FRA) Auguste Cavadini Maurice Lecoq Léon Moreaux Achille Paroche René Thomas
Trap shooting details	Roger de Barbarin  France	René Guyot  France	Justinien de Clary  France

Non-Olympic events

Competitors in these events had to kill as many live pigeons as possible. Birds were released one at a time from 'traps' in front of the shooters; winners were determined by whoever shot the most birds out of the sky. A shooter was eliminated once they missed two birds. Nearly 400 birds were killed. A prize purse of up to 20,000 Francs was awarded to the winners, though the top four finishers agreed to split the winnings.^[1] This was the first and only time in Olympic history when animals were killed on purpose. Animal rights campaigns were mounted to stop live shooting; in 1902 bans came into force in the United States leading to the introduction of clay pigeons.^[2]

The IOC has never decided which events were "Olympic" and which were not.^[3] The following results are not included in the IOC Olympic results list:

Live pigeon shooting - 20 franc entrance fee

Place	Athlete	Pigeons
1	Donald Mackintosh (AUS)	22
2	Pedro José Pidal y Bernaldo de Quirós (ESP)	21
3	Murphy (USA)	19

Live pigeon shooting - 200 franc entrance fee

Place	Athlete	Pigeons
1	Léon de Lunden (BEL)	21
2	Maurice Faure (FRA)	20
3	Donald MacKintosh (AUS)	18
	Crittenden Robinson (USA)	18

Running game target

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Louis Debray (FRA)	20
	Pierre Nivet (FRA)	20
3	Comte de Lambert (FRA)	19

Participating nations

A total of 72 shooters from 8 nations competed at the Paris Games:

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   Belgium (10)
  


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   Denmark (5)
  


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   France (37)
  


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   Great Britain (1)
  


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   Netherlands (7)
  


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   Norway (5)
  


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   Romania (1)
  


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   Switzerland (8)
  

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Switzerland (SUI)	5	1	1	7
2	France (FRA)	3	4	3	10
3	Denmark (DEN)	1	3	0	4
4	Norway (NOR)	0	2	2	4
5	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	2	2
6	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1

References

1. 
   ^ "Live Pigeon Shooting". Topend Sports Network. Retrieved 27 July 2012. 
   


2. 
   ^ Harris, Tim (2012). Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4090-7810-4. 
   


3. 
   ^ Lennartz, Karl; Teutenberg, Walter (1995). Olympische Spiele 1900 in Paris. Kassel, Germany: Agon-Sportverlag. p. 147. ISBN 3-928562-20-7. In many works, it is read that the IOC later met to decide which events were Olympic and which were not. This is not correct and no decision has ever been made. No discussion of this item can be found in the account of any Session. 
   

Bibliography

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  International Olympic Committee medal winners database


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  De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: Shooting 1900.  Retrieved 2 March 2006.


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  Mallon, Bill (1998). The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 0-7864-0378-0. 
  

v t e Events at the 1900 Summer Olympics (Paris)
Official	Archery Athletics Basque pelota Cricket Croquet Cycling Equestrian Fencing Football Golf Gymnastics Polo Rowing Rugby union Sailing Shooting Swimming Tennis Tug of war Water polo
Unofficial	Angling Ballooning Boules Cannon shooting Fire fighting Kite flying Life saving Longue paume Motor racing Motorcycle racing Pigeon racing Water motorsports

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