1948 Summer Olympics / Shooting

Shooting at the XIV Olympic Games
information
venue	Bisley
Competition venue	Bisley Camp
Nations	28
Athletes	188 (188 men)
date	2-6 August 1948
decisions	4th
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At the XIV Summer Olympics in London in 1948 , four competitions were held in sport shooting . That was the venue Bisley Camp in Bisley in the county of Surrey .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Switzerland	1	1	-	2
	United States	1	1	-	2
3	Peru	1	-	-	1
	Hungary	1	-	-	1
5	Argentina	-	1	-	1
	Finland	-	1	-	1
7th	Sweden	-	-	3	3
8th	Norway	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Free rifle three position fight 300 m	Emil Grünig	Pauli Janhonen	Willy Røgeberg
Small bore, lying 50 m	Arthur Cook	Walter Tomsen	Jonas Jonsson
Free pistol 50 m	Edwin Vásquez	Rudolf Schnyder	Torsten Ullman
Rapid fire pistol 25 m	Károly Takács	Enrique Sáenz-Valiente	Sven Lundquist

Results

Free rifle three position fight 300 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	SUI	Emil Grünig	1120
2	FIN	Pauli Janhonen	1114
3	NOR	Willy Røgeberg	1112
4th	SWE	Kurt Johansson	1104
5	FIN	Kullervo Leskinen	1103
6th	FIN	Olavi Elo	1095
7th	NOR	Halvor Kongsjorden	1093
8th	SWE	Holger Erbén	1091
9	SUI	Otto Horber	1080
11	SUI	Mario Ciocco	1078

Date: 5th to 6th August 1948
36 participants from 13 countries

Small bore, lying 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Arthur Cook	599
2	United States	Walter Tomsen	599
3	SWE	Jonas Jonsson	597
4th	NOR	Halvor Kongsjorden	597
5	NOR	Thore Skredegaard	597
6th	BY	Enrique Baldwin	596
7th	FIN	Albert Ravila	596
8th	NOR	Willy Røgeberg	596
12	SUI	Otto Horber	595
34	SUI	Ernst Grünig	587
56	SUI	Mario Ciocco	576
58	AUT	Richard Bohslavsky	575
60	AUT	Ernst Wöll	573

Date: August 3, 1948
71 participants from 26 countries

Free pistol 50 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	BY	Edwin Vásquez	545
2	SUI	Rudolf Schnyder	539
3	SWE	Torsten Ullman	539
4th	United States	Huelet Benner	539
5	SUI	Beat Rhyner	536
6th	ESP	Ángel León	534
7th	HUN	Ambrus Balogh	532
8th	BEL	Marcel Lafortune	530
15th	SUI	Heinz Ambühl	524

Date: August 2, 1948
50 participants from 22 countries

Rapid fire pistol 25 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	HUN	Károly Takács	580
2	ARG	Enrique Sáenz-Valiente	571
3	SWE	Sven Lundquist	569
4th	SWE	Torsten Ullman	564
5	FIN	Leo Ravilo	563
6th	FIN	Väinö Heusala	563
7th	HUN	Lajos Börzsönyi	562
8th	NOR	Birger Bühring-Andersen	559
20th	SUI	Rudolf Schnyder	531
59	SUI	Walter Lienhard	416

Date: August 4, 1948
59 participants from 22 countries

Web links

• Shooting at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1948 Summer Games (PDF, 30.9 MB)