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not included in the Olympic program: 1908 London details: Albert Helgerud Norway: Harry Simon United States: Ole Sæther Norway: 1912 Stockholm details: Paul Colas France: Lars Jørgen Madsen Denmark: Niels Larsen Denmark: 1920 Antwerp details: Morris Fisher United States: Niels Larsen Denmark: Østen Østensen Norway: 1924–1936: not included ...
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. 2001. pp. 42– 43. ISBN 0-9579616-1-8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-11 "Shooting Official Results Book". Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad (PDF). Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Athens 2004. August 2004. pp. 56– 57. ISBN 960-88101-7-5
For instance, only five women competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, while the next Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, which introduced women-only events, featured 77 female competitors. Two women won medals in mixed events: Margaret Murdock, silver in rifle 3 positions (1976) and Zhang Shan, gold in skeet (1992).
Virginia "Ginny" Thrasher [4] (born February 28, 1997) is an American sports shooter [5] who won a gold medal in the women's 10 meter air rifle at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She won the first gold medal awarded at the 2016 Olympics.
Sandra Fong (born April 15, 1990, in New York, New York) is an American Olympic sport shooter. [3]She is a multiple-time American junior record holder, and a three-time medalist (one gold and two silver) for the small-bore rifle prone and rifle three positions at the U.S. National Shooting Championships. [4]
Jasna Šekarić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јасна Шекарић; born 17 December 1965) is a Serbian sport shooter, considered as one of the most successful female shooters in ISSF history. [1] She has won a total of five Olympic medals: one gold, three silvers and one bronze. [ 2 ]
Austen Jewell Smith (born July 23, 2001) is an American sports shooter and Olympian. [1] She holds a silver and bronze medal in skeet from the 2024 Paris Olympics, alongside a gold medal from the 2021 ISSF World Cup Shotgun held in Lonato, Italy. [2] [3] She was the youngest member of the US Olympic shooting team for the 2020 Summer Olympics. [4]
She is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics as the only triple Olympic Champion and the only woman to have won two Olympic gold medals for Double Trap. She won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics , equaling the world record of 99 out of 100 clays. [ 2 ]