1948 Summer Olympics / Shooting

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Shooting at the
XIV Olympic Games
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venue United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bisley
Competition venue Bisley Camp
Nations 28
Athletes 188 (188 men)
date 2-6 August 1948
decisions 4th
Berlin 1936

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 gold silver bronze total
1 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 1 1 - 2
United States 48United States United States 1 1 - 2
3 Peru 1825Peru Peru 1 - - 1
Hungary 1946Hungary Hungary 1 - - 1
5 ArgentinaArgentina Argentina - 1 - 1
FinlandFinland Finland - 1 - 1
7th SwedenSweden Sweden - - 3 3
8th NorwayNorway Norway - - 1 1

Medalist

competitor gold silver bronze
Free rifle three position fight 300 m SwitzerlandSwitzerland Emil Grünig FinlandFinland Pauli Janhonen NorwayNorway Willy Røgeberg
Small bore, lying 50 m United States 48United States Arthur Cook United States 48United States Walter Tomsen SwedenSweden Jonas Jonsson
Free pistol 50 m Peru 1825Peru Edwin Vásquez SwitzerlandSwitzerland Rudolf Schnyder SwedenSweden Torsten Ullman
Rapid fire pistol 25 m Hungary 1946Hungary Károly Takács ArgentinaArgentina Enrique Sáenz-Valiente SwedenSweden Sven Lundquist

Results

Free rifle three position fight 300 m

space country athlete Points
1 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Emil Grünig 1120
2 FinlandFinland FIN Pauli Janhonen 1114
3 NorwayNorway NOR Willy Røgeberg 1112
4th SwedenSweden SWE Kurt Johansson 1104
5 FinlandFinland FIN Kullervo Leskinen 1103
6th FinlandFinland FIN Olavi Elo 1095
7th NorwayNorway NOR Halvor Kongsjorden 1093
8th SwedenSweden SWE Holger Erbén 1091
9 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Otto Horber 1080
11 SwitzerlandSwitzerland 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 48United States United States Arthur Cook 599
2 United States 48United States United States Walter Tomsen 599
3 SwedenSweden SWE Jonas Jonsson 597
4th NorwayNorway NOR Halvor Kongsjorden 597
5 NorwayNorway NOR Thore Skredegaard 597
6th Peru 1825Peru BY Enrique Baldwin 596
7th FinlandFinland FIN Albert Ravila 596
8th NorwayNorway NOR Willy Røgeberg 596
12 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Otto Horber 595
34 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Ernst Grünig 587
56 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Mario Ciocco 576
58 AustriaAustria AUT Richard Bohslavsky 575
60 AustriaAustria AUT Ernst Wöll 573

Date: August 3, 1948
71 participants from 26 countries

Free pistol 50 m

space country athlete Points
1 Peru 1825Peru BY Edwin Vásquez 545
2 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Rudolf Schnyder 539
3 SwedenSweden SWE Torsten Ullman 539
4th United States 48United States United States Huelet Benner 539
5 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Beat Rhyner 536
6th Spain 1945Spain ESP Ángel León 534
7th Hungary 1946Hungary HUN Ambrus Balogh 532
8th BelgiumBelgium BEL Marcel Lafortune 530
15th SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Heinz Ambühl 524

Date: August 2, 1948
50 participants from 22 countries

Rapid fire pistol 25 m

space country athlete Points
1 Hungary 1946Hungary HUN Károly Takács 580
2 ArgentinaArgentina ARG Enrique Sáenz-Valiente 571
3 SwedenSweden SWE Sven Lundquist 569
4th SwedenSweden SWE Torsten Ullman 564
5 FinlandFinland FIN Leo Ravilo 563
6th FinlandFinland FIN Väinö Heusala 563
7th Hungary 1946Hungary HUN Lajos Börzsönyi 562
8th NorwayNorway NOR Birger Bühring-Andersen 559
20th SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Rudolf Schnyder 531
59 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Walter Lienhard 416

Date: August 4, 1948
59 participants from 22 countries

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