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Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London saw fifteen shooting events. Most of the events were held at Bisley, Surrey while the trap shooting events were held at Uxendon.[1]

Medal summary

Participating nations

A total of 215 shooters from 14 nations competed at the London Games:[1]

Medal table

Late arrival of the Russian team

Some sources claim that the Russian shooting team was 13 days late to the Olympics due to the Russian Empire still using the Julian calendar as opposed to the rest of Europe, which used the Gregorian system.[3] The official report does not mention Russia, and it does mention Italy and Australia as "absent".[4] Other authors doubt of this claim , and underlie that Russia had been living next to Gregorian-calendar Europe for two centuries and was used to the difference[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Shooting at the 1908 London Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
  2. ^ Metaxas is generally credited with a bronze medal; no tie-breaker was held. The 1908 official report at p. 280 lists Metaxas as having tied with Maunder and assigns bronze medals to each. However, Metaxas does not appear in the IOC medal database, which lists only Maunder as sole bronze medalist. Some sources follow this database.
  3. ^ Keown, Eric (1949). Lemon, Mark (ed.). "[unknown]". Punch. 217: 35. Retrieved 28 June 2024. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  4. ^ "Official Report 1908 page 295". digital.la84.org. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
  5. ^ "Was Russia really late for the Olympics in 1908? (It won medals anyway!)". www.rbth.com. Retrieved 2022-01-27.

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