1900 Summer Olympics / Shooting

Shooting at the II Olympic Games
information
venue	Versailles / Billancourt
Competition venue	Camp de Satory / Ile de Séguin
Nations	8th
Athletes	72 (72 men)
date	July 15 - August 5, 1900
decisions	9
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The International Competitions for Physical Exercise and Sport (Concours Internationaux d'Exercices Physiques et de Sports ) held in Paris as part of the World Exhibition ( Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Paris ) comprised competitions in sport shooting that were part of the 1900 Summer Olympics (Games of the II ) were.

Remarks

Entrance to the Camp de Satory

The competitions also consisted of a large number of competitions which, according to Pierre de Coubertin , the founder of the modern Olympic Games , and according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), are not considered Olympic. International participation is a basic requirement for an Olympic competition, but the competitions largely consisted of national shooting festivals and military competitions. There were also a number of competitions for professional shooters. The shooting competition was a widespread and lucrative affair at the time, but accepting money for a sporting achievement was not in keeping with the Olympic idea, which is why professionals were not allowed to start in Olympic competitions. Other non-Olympic competitions included shooting live pigeons, crossbow shooting and cannon shooting.

The IOC assigned nine shooting competitions to the Olympic program of the Games of the II Olympiad. Here shooting with the army rifle with 5 ratings (lying, kneeling, standing, as a three-position fight and as a team) took an outstanding position. Of the total of over 6000 participating shooters, only 72 athletes took part in the Olympic competitions. With the exception of the target shooting , which was held at a shooting range on the Île de Séguin near Billancourt , the competitions took place in the Camp de Satory, a military camp near Versailles . The individual competitions were spread over a longer period between July 15 and August 7.

Medal table

space	country			Third	total
1	Switzerland	5	1	1	7th
2	France	3	4th	3	10
3	Denmark	1	3	-	4th
4th	Norway	-	2	2	4th
5	Belgium	-	-	2	2
6th	Netherlands	-	-	1	1

Results

Army rifle standing 300 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	THE	Lars Jørgen Madsen	305
2	NOR	Ole Østmo	299
3	BEL	Charles Paumier du Verger	298
4th	BEL	Paul van Asbroeck	297
5	SUI	Franz Böckli	294
6th	SUI	Emil Kellenberger	292
7th	BEL	Jules Bury	282
	SUI	Alfred Grütter

At the shooting range

Date: 5th to 7th August 1900
30 participants from 6 countries

Standing shooting was the first discipline in the three-position fight and was also rated separately. 40 shots had to be fired in four series of ten shots each. The shooting was at a target with ten rings and a diameter of one meter. The maximum number of points was 400.

Army rifle kneeling 300 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	SUI	Konrad Staeheli	324
2	SUI	Emil Kellenberger	314
	THE	Peter Nielsen is different
4th	BEL	Paul van Asbroeck	308
5	NED	Marcus Ravenswaaij	306
6th	NED	Uilke Vuurman	303
7th	SUI	Franz Böckli	300
8th	THE	Lars Jørgen Madsen	299

Date: 5th to 7th August 1900
30 participants from 6 countries

Kneeling shooting was the second discipline in the three-position fight and was also rated separately. 40 shots had to be fired in four series of ten shots each. The shooting was at a target with ten rings and a diameter of one meter. The maximum number of points was 400.

Army rifle lying 300 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	FRA	Achille Paroche	332
2	THE	Peter Nielsen is different	330
3	NOR	Ole Østmo	329
4th	FRA	Léon Moreaux	325
5	SUI	Emil Kellenberger	324
6th	NED	Henrik Sillem	317
7th	FRA	Auguste Cavadini	316
8th	BEL	Paul van Asbroeck	312
	NED	Uilke Vuurman

Date: 5th to 7th August 1900
30 participants from 6 countries

Prone shooting was the third discipline in the three-position fight and was also rated separately. 40 shots had to be fired in four series of ten shots each. The shooting was at a target with ten rings and a diameter of one meter. The maximum number of points was 400.

Army rifle three-position fight 300 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	SUI	Emil Kellenberger	930 (292 + 314 + 324)
2	THE	Peter Nielsen is different	921 (277 + 314 + 330)
3	NOR	Ole Østmo	917 (299 + 289 + 329)
	BEL	Paul van Asbroeck	917 (297 + 308 + 312)
5	THE	Lars Jørgen Madsen	905 (305 + 299 + 301)
6th	BEL	Charles Paumier du Verger	897 (298 + 297 + 302)
7th	FRA	Achille Paroche	887 (268 + 287 + 332)
8th	SUI	Franz Böckli	883 (294 + 300 + 289)

Date: 5th to 7th August 1900
30 participants from 6 countries

The three-position fight was a separate evaluation, which resulted from the summary of the individual results in the standing, kneeling and lying position. The maximum number of points was 1200.

Army rifle three-position combat team 300 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	SUI	Franz Böckli (883) Alfred Grütter (832) Emil Kellenberger (930) Louis-Marcel Richardet (873) Konrad Stäheli (881)	4399
2	NOR	Olaf Frydenlund (817) Helmer Hermansen (878) Tom Seeberg (848) Ole Sæther (830) Ole Østmo (917)	4290
3	FRA	Auguste Cavadini (880) Maurice Lecoq (823) Léon Moreaux (880) Achille Paroche (887) René Thomas (808)	4278
4th	THE	Viggo Jensen (875) Laurids Jensen-Kjær (782) Axel Kristensen (782) Lars Jørgen Madsen (905) Anders Peter Nielsen (921)	4265
5	NED	Antonius Bouwens (812) Marcus Ravenswaaij (881) Henrik Sillem (847) Solko van den Bergh (805) Uilke Vuurman (876)	4221
6th	BEL	Joseph Baras (713) Jules Bury (821) Edouard Myin (818) Charles Paumier du Verger (897) Paul van Asbroeck (917)	4166

The successful Swiss shooters of the two team competitions

Date: 5th to 7th August
30 participants from 6 countries

The team fight was a separate evaluation, which resulted from the summary of the individual results in the three-position fight of 5 shooters of a team. The maximum score was 6000.

Army revolver 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	SUI	Karl Conrad Röderer	503
2	FRA	Achille Paroche	466
3	SUI	Konrad Staeheli	453
4th	SUI	Louis-Marcel Richardet	448
5	FRA	Louis Dutfoy	442
6th	NED	Dirk Boest plaster	437
7th	SUI	Friedrich Lüthi	435
	FRA	Léon Moreaux

Date: 2nd to 3rd August
20 participants from 4 countries

60 shots had to be fired in six series of ten shots each. The shooting was at a target with ten rings and a diameter of 50 cm. The maximum score was 600.

Army revolver crew 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	SUI	Friedrich Lüthi (435) Paul Probst (432) Louis-Marcel Richardet (448) Karl Conrad Röderer (503) Konrad Stäheli (453)	2271
2	FRA	Louis Dutfoy (442) Maurice Lecoq (429) Léon Moreaux (435) Achille Paroche (446) Jules Trinité (431)	2203
3	NED	Antonius Bouwens (390) Henrik Sillem (408) Anthony Sweijs (310) Solko van den Bergh (331) Dirk Boest Gips (437)	1876
4th	BEL	Pierre Eichhorn (345) Charles Lebègue (318) Victor Robert (351) Alban Rooman (405) Émile Thèves (404)	1823

Date: August 5-7, 1900

The team fight was a separate evaluation, which resulted from the summary of the individual results of five shooters of a team. The maximum number of points was 3000.

Ordinance revolver 20 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	FRA	Maurice Larrouy	58
2	FRA	Léon Moreaux	57
3	FRA	Eugène Balme	57
4th	FRA	Paul Moreau	57
5	SUI	Paul Probst	57
6th	FRA	Joseph Labbé	57

The opinions of sports historians about this competition differ greatly as to whether it was an Olympic competition at all. The confusion begins with the fact that the competition is described in the lists of the IOC as shooting with a rapid-fire pistol over 25 m with 60 rounds. According to the official report on the sporting events of the world exhibition, there never was such a competition. In fact, it was a competition with the Ordonnanzwaffe (service weapon) over 20 m with only 6 shots (maximum 60 points).

The report also states that 201 shooters took part in this competition. Only the six shooters published in the report are known by name, including one Swiss. The ranking of the prizes, which is also shown in the report, does not necessarily have to represent the sporting order, because apart from the winner, all other five shooters have scored the same number of points (57), which usually results in an equal ranking if there is no playoff. Ultimately, the well-known sports historian Bill Mallon assumes that the competition was also accessible to professionals, which is why it would ultimately be excluded from the list of Olympic competitions. This is also practiced in various publications, the statistics and the medal table have changed accordingly.

Clay pigeon shooting

space	country	athlete	Points
1	FRA	Roger de Barbarin	17th
2	FRA	René Guyot	17th
3	FRA	Justinien de Clary	17th
4th	FRA	César Bettex	14th
5	FRA	Hilaret	14th
6th	FRA	Edouard Geynet	13

The winners in
clay target shooting from left to right: Barbarin, Guyot and Clary

Date: July 15th to 17th, 1900
31 participants from 4 countries

The shooting took place at 20 targets (clay pigeons). In the event of a tie, a playoff between these shooters, who had to shoot at twelve more targets, decided. The first three places were shot out in this way.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Karl Lennartz , Walter Teutenberg: II. Olympic Games 1900 in Paris. Presentation and sources. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-20-7 .
• Bill Mallon : The 1900 Olympic Games . McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina 1998, CIP 97-36094.

Web links

Commons : Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shooting at the Olympic Games 1900 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report (French, PDF, 3 parts in total; 8.10 MB)
• Page about all Olympic participants by Herman de Wael (English)