Niels Larsen

Niels Larsen medal table
Niels Larsen (1945)
Sport shooting
Denmark
Olympic games
bronze	Stockholm 1912	FG three position fight 300 m
bronze	Stockholm 1912	AG three position fight 300 m (M)
silver	Antwerp 1920	FG three position fight 300 m
gold	Antwerp 1920	AG standing 300 m (M)
bronze	Paris 1924	FG 400 + 600 + 800 m
World championships
bronze	Viborg 1914	AG standing 300 m
bronze	Milan 1922	FG three position fight (M)
bronze	St. Gallen 1925	AG kneeling 300 m
bronze	St. Gallen 1925	FG three position fight (M)
bronze	St. Gallen 1925	Free pistol (M)
bronze	Antwerp 1930	KK kneeling 50 m (M)
bronze	Antwerp 1930	Free pistol (M)

Niels Hansen Ditlev Larsen (born November 21, 1889 in Horsens , † November 15, 1969 in Otterup Sogn ) was a Danish sports shooter .

successes

Niels Larsen took part in the Olympic Games three times . At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 he was doubly successful in the three-position fight with the free rifle. He finished the individual behind Paul Colas and Lars Jørgen Madsen on the bronze rank as well as the team competition on the side of Ole Olsen , Lars Jørgen Madsen, Niels Andersen , Laurits Larsen and Jens Hajslund . In the other disciplines in which Larsen participated, he did not get any top placements. In 1920 he started in Antwerp in a total of nine disciplines. He achieved five top ten placements, two of them on the podium: with the army rifle, he was standing in the team competition together with Lars Jørgen Madsen, Anders Peter Nielsen , Anders Petersen and Erik Sætter-Lassen in front of the US and of the Swedish team Olympic champion . In the three-position fight with the free rifle, he finished in second place behind Morris Fisher and ahead of Østen Østensen . Four years later in Paris he reached sixth place with the team with the army rifle and won the 400 m, 600 m and 800 m prone position with the free rifle bronze behind Morris Fisher and Carl Osburn .

At world championships between 1914 and 1930 Nielsen secured seven bronze medals. He won two of them in the team competition with the Free Pistol , in 1925 in St. Gallen and 1930 in Antwerp. The other medals he won in various rifle disciplines, two of them in the individual and three with the team.

His father-in-law Hans Schultz was also an Olympic marksman, as was Larsen's son Uffe Schultz Larsen later on . Larsen was a gunsmith by trade.

Web links

Commons : Niels Larsen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Niels Larsen in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
• Niels Larsen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )