Olympedia – Free Pistol, 50 metres, Men

Free Pistol, 50 metres, Men

Date	1 July 1912 — 12:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Kaknäs, Djurgården, Stockholm
Participants	54 from 12 countries
Format	50 metres. 60 shots in 10 series of 6 shots each. Ties settled by countback on 10s, 9s, 8s, etc.

Date

1 July 1912 — 12:00

Status

Olympic

Location

Kaknäs, Djurgården, Stockholm

Participants

54 from 12 countries

Format

50 metres. 60 shots in 10 series of 6 shots each. Ties settled by countback on 10s, 9s, 8s, etc.

Al Lane added the free pistol gold medal to the one he had earned in the dueling pistol event two days previously. In this event, his 25-point margin of victory was one of the most dominant performances in Olympic shooting history. Charles Stewart (GBR) and Georg de Laval (SWE) finished equal third with 470, but Stewart won the bronze medal over de Laval based on tie breaking methods, which were, in order, targets hit, centres hit, 10s, 9s, etc.

The 8th-place finisher, Nikolay Panin (Kolomenkin) was a well-known figure skater, who had won the special figures gold medal at the 1908 Olympics in London. His real name was Nikolay Kolomenkin, but he competed under the pseudonym of Nikolay Panin, presumably because sports were considered undignified by the elite of Russian society in that era.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points
1	–	Al Lane	USA	499	Gold	OR
2	–	Peter Dolfen	USA	474	Silver
3	–	Charles Stewart	GBR	470	Bronze
4	–	Georg de Laval	SWE	470
5	–	Erik Boström	SWE	468
6	–	Horatio Poulter	GBR	461
7	–	Harry Sears	USA	459
8	–	Nikolay Kolomenkin	RUS	457
9	–	John Dietz	USA	454
10	–	Léon Johnson	FRA	454
11	–	Ivan Törnmarck	SWE	453
12	–	Eric Carlberg	SWE	452
13	–	Reginald Sayre	USA	452
14	–	Lars Jørgen Madsen	DEN	452
15	–	André Regaud	FRA	447
16	–	Vilhelm Carlberg	SWE	446
17	–	Georgy Panteleymonov	RUS	442
18	–	Ioannis Theofilakis	GRE	441
19	–	Dmitry Kuskov	RUS	438
20	–	Hugh Durant	GBR	433
21	–	Laurits Larsen	DEN	432
22	–	Hans Roedder	USA	431
23	–	Harald Ekwall	CHI	430
24	–	Albert Kempster	GBR	426
25	–	Fredrik Nyström	SWE	426
26	–	Fragkiskos Mavrommatis	GRE	425
27	–	Sándor, Gróf Török de Szendrő	HUN	424
28	–	Heikki Huttunen	FIN	424
29	–	Robert Löfman	SWE	423
30	–	Konstantinos Skarlatos	GRE	420
31	–	Grigory Shesterikov	RUS	420
32	–	Peter Jones	GBR	417
33	–	Nikolay Melnitsky	RUS	414
34	–	Pavel Voyloshnikov	RUS	413
35	–	William McClure	GBR	411
36	–	Paul Palén	SWE	410
37	–	Gideon Ericsson	SWE	408
38	–	Félix Alegría	CHI	406
39	–	Adolf Schmal, Jr.	AUT	406
40	–	Frants Nielsen	DEN	406
41	–	Niels Larsen	DEN	405
42	–	Gustaf Boivie	SWE	401
43	–	Peter Sofus Nielsen	DEN	397
44	–	Gerhard Bock	GER	395
45	–	Edward Tickell	GBR	387
46	–	Amos Kash	RUS	384
47	–	Alexandros Theofilakis	GRE	369
48	–	Gustaf Stiernspetz	SWE	357
49	–	Walter Winans	USA	356
50	–	Anders Peter Nielsen	DEN	355
51	–	Hugo Cederschiöld	SWE	352
52	–	Zoltán Jelenffy-Tóth	HUN	348
53	–	Edmund Bernhardt	AUT	245
54	–	Heinrich Hoffmann	GER	189

Pos

Number

Competitor

NOC

Points

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Al Lane

USA