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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).
Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place at Prado Olympic Shooting Park, Chino, California, United States. The games marked the first time that women’s shooting events were included in the Olympic program.
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 ]
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. [2] [6] [7]
In February 2018, the International Shooting Sport Federation agreed to change the rules on the allocation of the Olympic quota places, as it aims to attain gender equality. As a result, a total of 360 quota places, an equal distribution between men and women, will be awarded at the top-level global and continental championships.
Family Gold Medal/ Total Member (Gold / Silver / Bronze) Relationship Olympics Sports Note Paine 2 / 3 Sumner Paine (1/1/0) : 1896 Athens: Shooting - 30 m free pistol (1896), 25 m military pistol (1896)