Added: 02/27/2006 |
Shooting at the Olympic Games Involves Precision and PatienceShooting at the Olympic Games has been carried out at all Summer Olympic Games ever since the inception of the contemporary Olympic movement in 1896 at the Summer Olympics except for the 1904 and 1928 Olympiads.
The earliest few editions of the Games saw a great number of different shooting events with no much regularity. The following event in shooting at the Olympic Games was included:
1900 -- Free Rifle 300m Prone, Free Pistol, Free Rifle 300m Three Positions, Live Pigeon Shooting, Free Rifle 300m Standing, Running Boar, Free Rifle 300m Kneeling, Rapid Fire Pistol, Trap.
Following the reintroduction of shooting in 1932, it embraced only two events. From then on, the quantity of events has increased progressively until getting the maximum of seventeen events in 2000-2004. The 2008 shooting at the Olympic Games will only involve fifteen events. Events listed below and marked as "Men's" were in fact open events prior to the inclusion of events for women in that discipline. Two female Olympic shooters won medals in the following mixed events: Zhan Shan in 1992, gold in Skeet and Margaret Murdock in 1976, silver in 50m Rifle Three positions
Shooting Events at Olympics (years contested are given in parenthesis):
- Men's free rifle (1896);
- Men's military rifle (1896);
- Men's free pistol (1896);
- Men's military pistol (1896);
- Men's rapid-fire pistol (1896);
- Men's Three positions 300m Rifle (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972);
- Men's Three positions 50m Rifle (1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004);
- Men's 50m Rifle, Prone (1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004);
- Men's 10m Air Rifle (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004);
- Men's 50m Pistol (1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004);
- Men's 25m Pistol, Rapid Fire (1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004);
- Men's 10m Air Pistol (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004);
- Men's Trap (1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004)
- Men's Double Trap (1996, 2000, 2004);
- Men's Skeet (1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004);
- Men's 100m Running Deer (1952, 1956);
- Men's 50m Running Target (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984 and 1988);
- Men's 10m Running Target (1992, 1996, 2000 and2004);
- Women's Three positions 50m Rifle (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004)
- Women's 10m Air Rifle (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004);
- Women's 25m Pistol (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004);
- Women's 10m Air Pistol (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004);
- Women's Trap (2000, 2004);
- Women's Double (Trap 1996, 2000 and 2004);
- Women's Skeet (2000, 2004).
At this time shooting at the Olympic Games is represented by 15 shooting events on the program, with 390 shooters admitted. The qualification comprises two parts:
- A minimum score in qualification (MQS)
- A number of quota places in every event, summing up to a 390 total.
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