Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre team small-bore rifle

Men's 50 metre team small-bore rifle at the Games of the V Olympiad
Venue	Kaknäs
Date	3 July
Competitors	24 from 6 nations
Medalists
Great Britain (GBR) Edward Lessimore, Robert Murray, Joseph Pepé, William Pimm    Sweden (SWE) Eric Carlberg, Vilhelm Carlberg, Arthur Nordenswan, Ruben Örtegren    United States (USA) Frederick Hird, William Leushner, Carl Osburn, Warren Sprout

Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics
50 m rifle, prone	men
Team rifle	men
300 m free rifle, 3 positions	men
600 m free rifle	men
Team free rifle	men
300 m military rifle, 3 positions	men
25 m small-bore rifle	men
25 m team small-bore rifle	men
50 m team small-bore rifle	men
100 m deer, single shots	men
100 m deer, double shots	men
100 m team deer, single shots	men
50 m pistol	men
30 m team military pistol	men
50 m team military pistol	men
25 m rapid fire pistol	men
Trap	men
Team clay pigeons	men

The men's 50 metre team small-bore rifle (originally called team competition, miniature-rifle) was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of the event, though a mixed-distance team small-bore rifle event had been held in 1908. The competition was held on Wednesday, 3 July 1912.^[1]

Twenty-four sport shooters from six nations competed.

Results

Place	Team	Ind. score	Team score
1	Great Britain (GBR)		762
	William Pimm	195
	Edward Lessimore	193
	Joseph Pepé	189
	Robert Murray	185
2	Sweden (SWE)		748
	Arthur Nordenswan	190
	Eric Carlberg	189
	Ruben Örtegren	185
	Vilhelm Carlberg	184
3	United States (USA)		744
	Warren Sprout	193
	William Leushner	188
	Frederick Hird	185
	Carl Osburn	178
4	France (FRA)		714
	Léon Johnson	189
	Pierre Gentil	183
	André Regaud	180
	Maxime Landin	162
5	Denmark (DEN)		708
	Povl Gerlow	185
	Lars Jørgen Madsen	180
	Frants Nielsen	177
	Hans Denver	166
	Greece (GRE)		708
	Ioannis Theofilakis	184
	Iakovos Theofilas	177
	Frangiskos Mavrommatis	174
	Nikolaos Levidis	173

References

1. "Shooting at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, Team". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 18 November 2014.

External links

• Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.)., ed. The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand.
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 21 January 2007.