Erling Kongshaug

Erling Asbjørn Kongshaug (born March 22, 1915 in Oslo , † September 14, 1993 in Bærum ) was a Norwegian sports shooter . In 1952 he was Olympic champion and world champion in three-position combat with the small-bore rifle .

Athletic career

At the first world championships in sport shooting after the Second World War in Stockholm in 1947, the Swede Holger Erben won the competition in standing shooting with a small bore rifle, followed by the Norwegians Mauritz Amundsen and Erling Kongshaug both silver and bronze. The Norwegians won the team competition. Two years later at the World Championships in Buenos Aires, the Finn Pauli Janhonen won the standing stage ahead of Erling Kongshaug and Holger Erben. In 1949, no team competition was held in this discipline. Pauli Janhonen also won the three-position battle, Kongshaug received bronze behind Arthur Cook from the United States, the Norwegian team won bronze in this discipline. The 1952 Summer Olympics were held in Helsinki in July 1952 . Kongshaug won the three-position battle in front of the Finn Vilho Ylönen . Both had reached 1164 points, Kongshaug had hit the center with 53 shots against 49 center hits by Ylönen and therefore received gold. In prone shooting he reached 14th place. Kongshaug also took part in the free rifle competition at 300 meters and came eleventh here. Two weeks after the Olympic Games, the World Championships were held in Oslo. Kongshaug won both the three-position fight and the standing position. The Norwegian team won bronze in the three-position battle and in the kneeling position.

In 1954 at the World Championships in Caracas Kongshaug won team bronze in the three-position fight and in the kneeling position and team silver in the prone position and in the standing position. In 1955 Kongshaug won the European Championships with the small-bore rifle in the English Match discipline , 60 shots prone at 50 and 100 meters, both in individual and team competitions. At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 Kongshaug reached seventh place in the prone position and 15th place in the three-position fight. Four years later he also took part in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, finishing 22nd in prone shooting and 38th in three-position competition.

Web links

• Erling Kongshaug in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World championships with the small bore rifle on sport-komplett.de

Footnotes

1. ↑ Final result 1952 in the three-position fight on sportsreference.com
2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . Pp. 307f, note 245
3. ↑ European championships with the small bore rifle on sport-komplett.de