Nelson Hayford Lincoln (April 20, 1914 – March 7, 2000) was an American sports shooter. He competed in the

50 metre pistol The 50 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called Free Pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting disciplines, dating back to th ...

event at the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

. Lincoln won two gold medals at the

1959 Pan American Games The 1959 Pan American Games were held in Chicago, Illinois, United States between August 28 and September 7, 1959. Host city selection One city initially submitted a bid to host the 1959 Pan American Games that was recognized by the Pan Ame ...

, and also won silver and bronze at the

1958 ISSF World Shooting Championships The 37th UIT World Shooting Championships was the contemporary name of the ISSF World Shooting Championships in all ISSF shooting events that were held in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia, the Soviet Union in 1958. For th ...

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* 1914 births 2000 deaths American male sport shooters Shooters at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters for the United States Sportspeople from Medford, Massachusetts Shooters at the 1959 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in shooting 20th-century American people {{US-sportshooting-bio-stub

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