Ferdinand Buchanan

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Ferdinand Buchanan
medal table

Sport shooting

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

Ferdinand Lindley Augustus Buchanan (born March 8, 1888 in Swaziland , † April 14, 1967 in Pretoria ) was a South African marksman and brigadier general .

successes

Ferdinand Buchanan participated in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp in three competitions. In the standing attack over 300 m with the army rifle, he finished ninth with the team. The recumbent attack with the army rifle over 300 and 600 m he finished with the team in fifth place. Much more successful 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 the Swedish team scored 287 points, which resulted in a jump-off for the three medal positions. Buchanan was the team's second best shooter with 58 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 only managed 279 points, so Buchanan and his teammates Robert Bodley , George Harvey , Frederick Morgan and David Smith won the silver medal.

Buchanan was a professional soldier in the South African Army . During the First World War he was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 . During the Second World War he was the commanding officer of the 9th and later the 2nd South African Brigade, which fought in Ethiopia against the Kingdom of Italy as part of the East Africa campaign. Between the two wars he was the deputy commander in charge of infantry training. Buchanans last held the rank of brigadier general .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shooting at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games: Men's Military Rifle, Prone, 600 meters, Team. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Shooting at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games: Men's Military Rifle, Prone, 600 meters, Team Shoot-Off 1. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Shooting at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games: Men's Military Rifle, Prone, 600 meters, Team Shoot-Off 2. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Buchanan, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchanan, Ferdinand Lindley Augustus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African marksman
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Swaziland
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1967
Place of death Pretoria , South Africa