At the
1924 Summer Olympics
The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The o ...
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Paris
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, ten events in
shooting
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were contested. These would be the last Games in which team events were part of the Olympic shooting program. The competitions were held from 23 June 1924 to 9 July 1924 at the shooting ranges at
Versailles
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Reims
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Founded b ...
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Camp de Châlons
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(Mourmelon), and
Issy-les-Moulineaux
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Medal summary
Notes:
*For the team free rifle the IOC medal database lists also Léon Johnson and André Parmentier as silver medalists for France; and
L. H. Clermont and
C. Dupre as bronze medalists for Haiti, but all these shooters never participated in this competition.
*For the team running deer, single shots the IOC medal database lists also Hans Nordvik and Oluf Wesmann-Kjær as gold medalists for Norway; and Karl Richter and Karl-Gustaf Svensson as silver medalists for Sweden, but all these shooters never participated in this competition.
*For the team running deer, double shots the IOC medal database lists also John Faunthorpe and John O'Leary as gold medalists for Great Britain; Hans Nordvik and Oluf Wesmann-Kjær as silver medalists for Norway; and Edward Benedicks and Karl-Gustaf Svensson as bronze medalists for Sweden, but all these shooters never participated in this competition.
*For the team trap the IOC medal database lists all six team members as medalists. The shooters below the line were the weakest of their teams and their scores did not count for the team score.
Participating nations
A total of 258 sport shooters from 27 nations competed at the Paris Games:
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Medal table
References
External links
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Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hold ...
Olympics
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Shooting competitions in France