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Running Target, Single Shot, Team, Men

Date 4 July 1912 — 10:00
StatusOlympic
LocationEllenhill, Råsunda, Solna
Participants20 from 5 countries
Format100 metres. Four-man teams. 10 shots per man with one shot per run. 50 possible per shooter, 200 possible per team.

After taking the first nine places in the double-shot running deer event on 3 July, Sweden was heavily favored in the team running deer event and they won easily. They were led by the individual winners in the two running deer events, Åke Lundeberg and Alfred Swahn. But their leading scorer in the team event was Swahn’s father, Oscar Swahn, who was 64 years, 257 days old on 4 July 1912, making him the oldest gold medalist in Olympic history. Oscar Swahn returned to the Olympics in 1920, where he won a silver medal in the team running deer event. In 1920, he won his medal aged 72 years, 279 days, making him the oldest medalist in Olympic history. Oscar Swahn was on the Swedish shooting team which was to compete at the 1924 Paris Olympics, but he fell ill shortly before those Games and did not compete. He died on 1 May 1927, a few months shy of his 80th birthday.

PosCompetitorsNOCPointsShot 1 PointsShot 2 PointsShot 3 PointsShot 4 PointsShot 5 PointsShot 6 PointsShot 7 PointsShot 8 PointsShot 9 PointsShot 10 Points
1SwedenSWE151Gold
Oscar Swahn 434554534535
Åke Lundeberg 394445245434
Alf Swahn 374453433335
Per-Olof Arvidsson 322433432533
2United StatesUSA132Silver
Walter Winans 394514444544
Bill Leushner 384544542253
Bill Libbey 374554341353
Neil McDonell 180513040203
3FinlandFIN123Bronze
Nestori Toivonen 383354543353
Iivo Väänänen 305403334233
Axel Fredrik Londen 293503342333
Ernst Rosenqvist 265001545330
4AustriaAUT115
Peter Paternolli 342353333345
Adolf Michel 334033534254
Heinrich Elbogen 293323332514
Eberhard Steinböck 190000332452
5RussiaRUS108
Vasily Skrotsky 360335355345
Dmitry Barkov 264324523030
Harry Blaus 230243221333
Aleksandr Dobrzhansky 231213332323
DNSFranceFRA
DNSGermanyGER
DNSSouth AfricaRSA