David Smith (marksman)

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David Smith
medal table

Sport shooting

South Africa 1910South African Union South African Union
Olympic Summer Games
silver Antwerp 1920 AG lying 600 m (M)

David J. Smith (born April 10, 1880 in Scotland , † August 15, 1945 in Johannesburg ) was a South African sports shooter .

successes

David Smith took part in the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 and in Paris in 1924 . In 1920 he started in five disciplines with the team, with which he mostly missed a top placement. The South Africans finished most of the competitions in the midfield of all participants. An exception was the competition with the army rifle in the prone position over 600 m, in which the South African team as well as the US and Swedish teams scored 287 points, which resulted in a jump-off for the three medal places. Smith was the team's weakest shooter with 54 points. In the first round of the jump-off, the Swedes only got 275 points, while the Americans and South Africans were again tied with 283 points. In the second jump-off, the US team finally prevailed, scoring 284 points. The South African team got just 279 points, so Smith and his teammates Ferdinand Buchanan , George Harvey , Frederick Morgan and Robert Bodley won the silver medal. Four years later he was without a medal. He finished the prone attack with the free rifle in the individual in 59th place, with the team he was ninth.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shooting at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games: Men's Military Rifle, Prone, 600 meters, Team. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed January 27, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Shooting at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games: Men's Military Rifle, Prone, 600 meters, Team Shoot-Off 1. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed January 27, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Shooting at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games: Men's Military Rifle, Prone, 600 meters, Team Shoot-Off 2. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed January 27, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Smith, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, David J. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African marksman
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Scotland
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1945
Place of death Johannesburg , South Africa