Date | 11 July 1908 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Bisley Rifle Range, Bisley | |
Participants | 22 from 5 countries | |
Format | 25 yards. Moving target. The target appeared 15 times over a 10 foot (3.05 metres) run for four seconds, one shot per run. Individual possible 45. |
Four British shooters tied for first in this event and the places were decided by examination of the targets. The winner, John Fleming, was a long-time member of the City Rifle Club and from 1914-1918 was an instructor at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) School of Musketry. He was in the King’s Hundred in 1934 and was a life member of the NRA.
Pos | Competitor | NOC | Points | |||
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1 | John Fleming | GBR | 24 | Gold | ||
2 | Maurice Matthews | GBR | 24 | Silver | ||
3 | William Marsden | GBR | 24 | Bronze | ||
4 | Edward Newitt | GBR | 24 | |||
5 | Philip Plater | GBR | 22 | |||
6 | William Pimm | GBR | 21 | |||
7 | William Milne | GBR | 21 | |||
8 | Otto von Rosen | SWE | 18 | |||
9 | William Styles | GBR | 17 | |||
=10 | Arthur Wilde | GBR | 13 | |||
=10 | Walter Winans | USA | 13 | |||
=10 | Léon Johnson | FRA | 13 | |||
13 | James Milne | GBR | 12 | |||
14 | André Mercier | FRA | 10 | |||
=15 | Léon Tétart | FRA | 9 | |||
=15 | Eric Carlberg | SWE | 9 | |||
=15 | Vilhelm Carlberg | SWE | 9 | |||
=15 | Hübner von Holst | SWE | 9 | |||
=19 | Harold Hawkins | GBR | 3 | |||
=19 | Edward Amoore | GBR | 3 | |||
William Hill | ANZ | – | ||||
Frans-Albert Schartau | SWE | – |