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
VenueKaknäs
Date4 July
Competitors42 from 7 nations
Winning score5655
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Sweden (SWE)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Norway (NOR)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Denmark (DEN)
Shooting at the
1912 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle, pronemen
300 m free rifle, 3 positionsmen
600 m free riflemen
300 m free rifle, teammen
300 m military rifle, 3 positionsmen
Team military riflemen
25 m small-bore riflemen
25 m team small-bore riflemen
50 m team small-bore riflemen
Pistol
50 m pistolmen
50 m team pistolmen
30 m dueling pistolmen
30 m team dueling pistolmen
Shotgun
Trapmen
Team clay pigeonsmen
Running deer
100 m deer, single shotsmen
100 m deer, double shotsmen
100 m team deer, single shotsmen

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 191211:00Final

Results
RankNationShooterScore
1st place, gold medalist(s) SwedenSweden total5655
Mauritz Eriksson976
Hugo Johansson975
Erik Blomqvist962
Carl Björkman954
Bernhard Larsson914
Gustaf Adolf Jonsson874
2nd place, silver medalist(s) NorwayNorway total5602
Gudbrand Skatteboe945
Ole Sæther945
Østen Østensen940
Albert Helgerud938
Olaf Sæther935
Einar Liberg902
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) DenmarkDenmark total5570
Ole Olsen983
Lars Jørgen Madsen973
Niels Larsen931
Niels Andersen896
Laurits Larsen890
Jens Hajslund856
4 FranceFrance total5471
Paul Colas1004
Louis Percy931
Léon Johnson908
Pierre Gentil899
Raoul de Boigne874
Auguste Marion855
5 FinlandFinland total5323
Voitto Kolho951
Heikki Huttunen946
Gustaf Nyman897
Emil Holm845
Huvi Tuiskunen844
Vilho Vauhkonen840
6 South AfricaSouth Africa total4897
George Harvey887
Robert Bodley857
Robert Patterson839
Arthur Smith821
Ernest Keeley812
George Whelan681
7 Russian EmpireRussian Empire total4892
Pavel Valden860
Feofan Lebedev827
Aleksandr Tillo822
Dmitry Kuskov811
Konstantin Kalinin803
Pavel Lesh769

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.
  • 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.
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