Cyril Mackworth-Praed
| Cyril Mackworth-Praed medal table |
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| silver | Paris 1924 | Serial Deer, single shot |
| silver | Paris 1924 | Serial Deer, double shot |
| gold | Paris 1924 | Serial Stag, double shot (M) |
Cyril Winthrop Mackworth-Praed , OBE FRGS (born September 21, 1891 in Mickleham , † June 30, 1974 in Ringwood ) was a British marksman , ornithologist and entomologist .
successes
Cyril Mackworth-Praed took part in the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 and in Helsinki in 1952 . On the running deer he won the silver medal in 1924 in both a single shot and a double shot. In a single shot he was first with Otto Olsen in second place with 39 points, before he prevailed in the jump-off against Olsen with 19 to 17 points. Even in a double shot, a jump-off decided the medal places. Mackworth-Praed won it with 22 to 16 points against Alfred Swahn . While he just missed another medal win with the team in a single shot in fourth place, he managed a narrow victory with her in the double shot before Norway, whose team had scored 262 points one point less than the British team. In addition to Mackworth-Praed, who achieved the best result of the British with 76 points, Allen Whitty , Philip Neame and Herbert Perry were also part of the team that became Olympic champions . In the trap, he could not build on the results. He did not finish the individual competition and finished eighth with the team. In 1952 he only started in the competition on the running deer in a combined single and double shot, which he completed in eleventh of 14 participants.
Mackworth-Praed attended Eton College and then Trinity College in Cambridge . During the First World War he served in the British Army Scots Guards . During World War II he ran a training center for command forces and received the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire for his services . He has published several scientific papers on ornithology in Africa and was a fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Zoological Society .
Web links
- Cyril Mackworth-Praed in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Mackworth-Praed, Cyril |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mackworth-Praed, Cyril Winthrop (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British marksman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mickleham , United Kingdom |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1974 |
| Place of death | Ringwood , UK |