Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics

At the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, many shooting events were featured within the concurrent 1900 Exposition Universelle, but only eight events currently are considered as "Olympic" by IOC. Before July 2021 the International Olympic Committee has never decided which events were "Olympic" and which were not.<ref name="KLWT">Template:Cite book</ref> The competitions were held from 3 August to 5 August and took place at the military sporting complex in Satory and at Boulogne-Billancourt. <ref name="Mallon">Template:Cite book</ref> According to Olympic historian Bill Mallon, one of these nine shooting events (20 metre military pistol) was an event for professionals with prize money and therefore does not meet inclusion criteria for 1900 Olympic Games events.<ref name="Mallon"/>

Medal summary

50 metre free pistol, individual Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
50 metre free pistol, team Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Friedrich Lüthi Paul Probst Louis Richardet Karl Röderer Konrad Stäheli	Template:FlagIOCteam Louis Dutfoy Maurice Lecoq Léon Moreaux Achille Paroche Jules Trinité	Template:FlagIOCteam Solko van den Bergh Antonius Bouwens Dirk Boest Gips Henrik Sillem Anthony Sweijs
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300 metre free rifle, kneeling Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	None awarded
300 metre free rifle, prone Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
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300 metre free rifle, team Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Franz Böckli Alfred Grütter Emil Kellenberger Louis Richardet Konrad Stäheli	Template:FlagIOCteam Olaf Frydenlund Helmer Hermandsen Ole Østmo Ole Sæther Tom Seeberg	Template:FlagIOCteam Auguste Cavadini Maurice Lecoq Léon Moreaux Achille Paroche René Thomas
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Event that currently is not considered as "Olympic" by IOC.

20 metre rapid fire pistol (professionals) Template:DetailsLink

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Excluded events

Contestants in the live pigeon shoot: Maurice Fauré (France), Léon de Lunden (Belgium), Donald Mackintosh (Australia)

Competitors in these events had to kill as many live pigeons as possible. Birds were released one at a time from 'traps' in front of the shooters; winners were determined by whoever shot the most birds out of the sky. A shooter was eliminated once they missed two birds. Nearly 300 birds were killed. A prize purse of up to 20,000 Francs was awarded to the winners, though the top four finishers agreed to split the winnings.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> This was the first and only time in Olympic history when animals were killed on purpose. Animal rights campaigns were mounted to stop live shooting; in 1902 bans came into force in the United States leading to the introduction of clay pigeons.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The following results are not included in the IOC Olympic results list:

Live pigeon shooting – 20 franc entrance fee

Place	Athlete	Pigeons
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2	Template:FlagIOCathlete	21
3	Template:FlagIOCathlete<ref>The Sporting Life, June 30, 1900, p. 16</ref>	19

Live pigeon shooting – 200 franc entrance fee

Place	Athlete	Pigeons
1	Template:FlagIOCathlete	21
2	Template:FlagIOCathlete	20
3	Template:FlagIOCathlete	18
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Running game target

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Template:FlagIOCathlete	20
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3	Template:FlagIOCathlete	19

Participating nations

A total of 72 shooters from 8 nations competed at the Paris Games:Template:Cn

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Medal table

20 metre military pistol event was an event for professionals with prize money. All three medals in this event were won by the French. It is not included in the IOC website's list of medal results<ref name="oly2">Template:Cite web</ref> and is not included in the table below. Template:Medals table

Bibliography

• International Olympic Committee medal winners database
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