Arthur Jackson

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Arthur Jackson
medal table

Sport shooting

United StatesUnited States United States
Olympic games
bronze Helsinki 1952 KK lying 50 m
World championships
gold Buenos Aires 1949 KK lying 50 + 100 m
silver Buenos Aires 1949 KK lying 50 + 100 m (M)
bronze Oslo 1952 SG three position fight 300 m
gold Oslo 1952 KK lying 50 m
bronze Oslo 1952 KK lying 50 m (M)
gold Oslo 1952 KK lying 50 + 100 m
gold Oslo 1952 KK lying 50 + 100 m (M)
bronze Oslo 1952 AG three position fight 300 m
gold Caracas 1954 KK lying 50 + 100 m (M)
Pan American Games
gold Buenos Aires 1951 KK three position fight 50 m
gold Buenos Aires 1951 KK lying 50 m
silver Buenos Aires 1951 HP three-position fight 50 m
gold Mexico City 1955 KK three position fight 50 m
gold Mexico City 1955 KK three position fight 50 m (M)
gold Mexico City 1955 KK lying 50 m
gold Mexico City 1955 KK lying 50 m (M)
silver Mexico City 1955 HP three-position fight 50 m
gold Mexico City 1955 HP three-position fight 50 m (M)

Arthur Charles "Art" Jackson (born May 15, 1918 in Brooklyn , New York City , † January 6, 2015 in Concord ) was an American marksman .

successes

Arthur Cook participated in three Olympic Games . In 1948 he finished 16th in the three-position battle with the free rifle in London . Four years later he started in the two individual disciplines with the small-bore rifle and reached twelfth place in the three-position battle. The competition was more successful in the prone position, in which he took third place with 399 points behind Iosif Sîrbu and Boris Andrejew and thus won the bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , he finished the three-position fight again in twelfth place, while he did not get past 31st place in the prone position.

Jackson won a total of nine medals at world championships . He became world champion in Buenos Aires in 1949 and in Oslo in 1952 with the small caliber in the prone position over 50 and 100 m, as well as in 1952 in the prone position only over 50 m. In the team competition over 50 and 100 m combined, he won the title in Caracas in 1952 and 1954 , after having finished second with her in 1949. In addition, he won bronze three times in 1952. Jackson secured seven gold and two silver medals at the Pan American Games . In 1951 in Buenos Aires and 1955 in Mexico City , he won the individual titles with the small-bore rifle in the three-position fight and in the prone position, in 1955 he also won gold in the respective team competitions. Jackson was also very successful at the national level. In 1999 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the US Rifle Federation.

In 1943 Jackson joined the United States Army Air Forces and was stationed in Japan at the end of World War II . In 1947 he retired from active service, but remained in the reserve. In 1971 he retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel . In 1947 he began to study photography and then worked at the Pratt Institute in New York City . In 1951 he was recruited by the CIA , for which he worked until 1974. He was married and had five children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shooting at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Arthur C. Jackson (1918-2015). In: legacy.com. Concord Monitor, accessed January 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Jackson, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, Arthur Charles (full name); Jackson, Art
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American marksman
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2015
Place of death Concord , United States