Date | 29 July 1920 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Kamp Beverlo, Beverlo | |
Participants | 75 from 15 countries | |
Format | 300 metres prone. Five-man teams, each shooter with 10 shots. Team possible 300. Individual possible 60. |
Five shooters scored 59 individually in this event and three of them were Americans – Carl Osburn, Lloyd Spooner, and Bud Fisher – which enabled the US to win this gold medal with a comfortable margin over second-place France. Finland, Switzerland, and Sweden tied for third with 281 points. The original scores on the first reading of the targets was: Sweden 281, Switzerland 280, Finland 279. However, re-reading of the targets gave all three 281 and there was no shoot-off. The tie was broken by the re-read, and gave Finland third, Switzerland fourth, Sweden fifth.