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The competition involved two competitors firing at each other with dueling pistols loaded with wax bullets and wearing protective equipment for the torso, face, and hands. [1] [3] Teams were sent by countries including France, the UK, and the USA. The 20-meter competition was won by the French team of Major Ferrus, J Marais and J Rouvcanachi. [2]
Pistol dueling was a competitive sport developed around 1900 [1] which involved opponents shooting at each other using dueling pistols adapted to fire wax bullets. The sport was briefly popular among some members of the metropolitan upper classes in the US, UK and France. [ 2 ]
Olympic dueling is an archaic individual sport that sought to safely emulate the deadly practice of pistol duelling, akin to fencing emulating sword fighting. It involved the use of specially built primer-fired pistols to propel wax bullets. [41] Two versions of the sport were demonstration events at the 1906 Olympics and 1908 Olympics. It was ...
Alfréd Hajós — who won the first Olympic gold medal in swimming in 1896 and also played for the Hungarian national football team — won a silver medal in architecture in the 1924 Olympics.
The Olympics got a taste of the Wild West when it included pistol dueling as an official event in 1906. Contrary to what the name suggests, it didn't involve any actual dueling.
Participants wore heavy, protective clothing and a metal helmet, similar to a fencing mask but with an eye-screen of thick glass. Pistol dueling was an associate (non-medal) event at the 1906 and 1908 Olympic games (see Olympic dueling). The Fauré Le Page company of France made special pistols for sport duelling.
Shooting was one of the nine events at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896. Early competitions included some events now regarded as unusual, such as live pigeon shooting in 1900; dueling in 1906 and 1908; and numerous events restricted to military weapons. After the 1900 games, the pigeons were replaced with clay targets.
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