Frederick Hird

Frederick Hird medal table
Frederick Hird (1912)
Sport shooting
United States
Olympic Summer Games
gold	Stockholm 1912	KK lying 50 m
bronze	Stockholm 1912	KK lying 50 m (M)
bronze	Stockholm 1912	KK 25 m, bl. Goal (M)

Frederick Sylvester "Fred" Hird (born December 6, 1879 in New Diggings , † September 27, 1952 in Des Moines ) was an American sports shooter .

successes

Frederick Hird took part in the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 and in Antwerp in 1920 . In 1912 he started in seven disciplines and won three medals. In the competition with the small bore rifle over 25 m at a disappearing target, he was third in the team competition alongside William Leushner , William McDonnell and Warren Sprout as well as in the prone position with the small bore rifle at the side of William Leushner, Carl Osburn and Warren Sprout . In the individual competitions, he finished eighth on the vanishing target, while he achieved his greatest success in the prone position. With 194 points, he was the best shooter in the competition, becoming Olympic champion ahead of William Milne and Harry Burt . In the individual competitions with the various types of rifles, he only achieved lower placements. At the Games of 1920 he only started in the prone position with the army rifle and with 55 points did not achieve a place in the top result area.

Even in his youth, Hird was a professional boxer and semi-professional baseball player. From 1900 to 1943 he served in the National Guard of Iowa and went to the end of his career, to Lieutenant Colonel on. He took an active part in the First World War. From 1928 to 1936 he was a US Marshal in southern Iowa for two terms . He later worked as a special agent for the Attorney General of Iowa.

Web links

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• Frederick Hird in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )