Martin Mauricio Gison (born 14 March 1914, date of death unknown) was a Filipino

sports shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as ...

. He is competed at five

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, the most for any Filipino as of 2008. Gison's first Olympics was in

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

at 22 years old. He also competed at the 1948, 1952, 1956 and

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

editions of the Olympics. The best finished accomplished by Gison was in 1936 where he placed fourth in the men's 50m small-bore rifle event. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, Gison was taken as a

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by the Japanese and survived the

Bataan Death March The Bataan Death March (Filipino: ''Martsa ng Kamatayan sa Bataan''; Spanish: ''Marcha de la muerte de Bataán'' ; Kapampangan: ''Martsa ning Kematayan quing Bataan''; Japanese: バターン死の行進, Hepburn: ''Batān Shi no Kōshin'') was ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gison, Martin 1914 births Year of death missing Filipino male sport shooters Olympic shooters of the Philippines Shooters at the 1936 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1948 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1952 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1956 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1964 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 1954 Asian Games Shooters at the 1958 Asian Games Shooters at the 1962 Asian Games Place of birth missing Filipino military personnel of World War II Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for the Philippines Asian Games silver medalists for the Philippines Asian Games bronze medalists for the Philippines Philippine Sports Hall of Fame inductees 20th-century Filipino people