The men's 300 metre team free rifle was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the third appearance of the event. The competition was held on Thursday, 4 July 1912. Forty-two sport shooters from seven nations competed. The event was won by Sweden, the nation's first victory in the event, improving on a silver-medal performance in 1908. Defending champions Norway reached the podium for the third consecutive time, taking silver this time. Denmark earned its first medal in the men's 300 metre team free rifle with bronze.
Ole Sæther had been a member of Norway's two prior teams as well, so became the first man with three medals in the event. He had been the only man with multiple medals; five others (Albert Helgerud, Gudbrand Skatteboe, Einar Liberg, and Olaf Sæther of Norway and Gustaf Adolf Jonsson of Sweden) each earned their second in 1912.
Background
This was the third appearance of the men's 300 metre team rifle event, which was held 4 times between 1900 and 1920.
South Africa and the Russian Empire each made their debut in the event. Denmark, France, and Norway each made their third appearance, having competed in each edition of the event to date.
Competition format
The competition had each shooter fire 120 shots, 40 shots in each of three positions: prone, kneeling, and standing. The target was 1 metre in diameter, with 10 scoring rings; targets were set at a distance of 300 metres. The six team members' scores were then summed. Thus, the maximum score possible was 7200 points. The scores for the team event were separate from the individual event this time.
Schedule
Date Time Round Thursday, 4 July 1912 11:00 Final
Results
Rank Nation Shooter Score Sweden total 5655 Mauritz Eriksson 976 Hugo Johansson 975 Erik Blomqvist 962 Carl Björkman 954 Bernhard Larsson 914 Gustaf Adolf Jonsson 874 Norway total 5602 Gudbrand Skatteboe 945 Ole Sæther 945 Østen Østensen 940 Albert Helgerud 938 Olaf Sæther 935 Einar Liberg 902 Denmark total 5570 Ole Olsen 983 Lars Jørgen Madsen 973 Niels Larsen 931 Niels Andersen 896 Laurits Larsen 890 Jens Hajslund 856 4 France total 5471 Paul Colas 1004 Louis Percy 931 Léon Johnson 908 Pierre Gentil 899 Raoul de Boigne 874 Auguste Marion 855 5 Finland total 5323 Voitto Kolho 951 Heikki Huttunen 946 Gustaf Nyman 897 Emil Holm 845 Huvi Tuiskunen 844 Vilho Vauhkonen 840 6 South Africa total 4897 George Harvey 887 Robert Bodley 857 Robert Patterson 839 Arthur Smith 821 Ernest Keeley 812 George Whelan 681 7 Russian Empire total 4892 Pavel Valden 860 Feofan Lebedev 827 Aleksandr Tillo 822 Dmitry Kuskov 811 Konstantin Kalinin 803 Pavel Lesh 769
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