John Larsen

John Larsen medal table
John Larsen (1952)
Sport shooting
Norway
Olympic Summer Games
gold	Helsinki 1952	Serial Deer, single u. Double shot
World championships
gold	Buenos Aires 1949	Serial Deer, single shot
gold	Buenos Aires 1949	Serial Deer, single u. Double shot
gold	Buenos Aires 1949	Serial Deer, single u. Double shot (M)
gold	Oslo 1952	Serial Deer, single shot
gold	Oslo 1952	Serial Deer, double shot
gold	Oslo 1952	Serial Deer, single shot (M)
gold	Oslo 1952	Serial Stag, double shot (M)
silver	Caracas 1954	Serial Deer, single shot (M)
bronze	Caracas 1954	Serial Stag, double shot (M)

John H. Larsen senior (born August 27, 1913 in Oslo ; † August 5, 1989 there ) was a Norwegian sports shooter .

successes

John Larsen took part in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki and the 1956 Games in Melbourne . In the running deer discipline , he achieved the highest number of points with 413 points and was thus Olympic champion ahead of Olof Sköldberg and Tauno Mäki . Four years later, he finished eighth in this competition with 390 points.

Larsen was world champion seven times in Buenos Aires in 1949 and in Oslo in 1952 . In 1949 he won the singles in the single shot as well as in the single and double shot, he was also successful with the team in the single and double shot. In Oslo, titles followed in the singles of the single shot and the double shot as well as in the respective team competitions. In 1954, in Caracas, he also secured silver with the team in a single shot and bronze in the team competition in a double shot.

His son was also an Olympic marksman.

Web links

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• John Larsen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )