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Shooting at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games:

Men's Free Pistol, 50 metres

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Host City: Stockholm, Sweden
Venue(s): Kaknäs, Djurgården, Stockholm
Date Started: July 1, 1912
Date Finished: July 1, 1912
Format: 50 metres. 60 shots in 10 series of 6 shots each. Ties settled by countback on 10s, 9s, 8s, etc.

Gold: USA Al Lane
Silver: USA Peter Dolfen
Bronze: GBR Charles Stewart

Summary

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 because of having scored more “centres (tens)” than de Laval.

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.

Final Standings

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC Medal PTS
1 Al Lane 20 United States USA Gold 499 OR
2 Peter Dolfen 31 United States USA Silver 474
3 Charles Stewart Great Britain GBR Bronze 470
4 Georg de Laval 29 Sweden SWE 470
5 Erik Boström 42 Sweden SWE 468
6 Horatio Poulter 34 Great Britain GBR 461
7 Harry Sears 41 United States USA 459
8 Nikolay Kolomenkin 40 Russia RUS 457
9 John Dietz 41 United States USA 454
10 Léon Johnson 36 France FRA 454
11 Ivan Törnmarck 27 Sweden SWE 453
12 Eric Carlberg 32 Sweden SWE 452
13 Reginald Sayre 52 United States USA 452
14 Lars Jørgen Madsen 40 Denmark DEN 452
15 André Regaud 44 France FRA 447
16 Vilhelm Carlberg 32 Sweden SWE 446
17 Georgy Panteleymonov 28 Russia RUS 442
18 Ioannis Theofilakis Greece GRE 441
19 Dmitry Kuskov 35 Russia RUS 438
20 Hugh Durant 35 Great Britain GBR 433
21 Laurits Larsen 40 Denmark DEN 432
22 Hans Roedder 33 United States USA 431
23 Harald Ekwall 38 Chile CHI 430
24 Albert Kempster 37 Great Britain GBR 426
25 Fredrik Nyström 31 Sweden SWE 426
26 Frangiskos Mavrommatis 42 Greece GRE 425
27 Sándor, Count Török de Szendrő 31 Hungary HUN 424
28 Heikki Huttunen 31 Finland FIN 424
29 Robert Löfman 36 Sweden SWE 423
30 Konstantinos Skarlatos 35 Greece GRE 420
31 Grigory Shesterikov 35 Russia RUS 420
32 Peter Jones 32 Great Britain GBR 417
33 Nikolay Melnitsky 24 Russia RUS 414
34 Pavel Voyloshnikov 33 Russia RUS 413
35 William McClure 28 Great Britain GBR 411
36 Paul Palén 31 Sweden SWE 410
37 Gideon Ericsson 41 Sweden SWE 408
38 Félix Alegría 35 Chile CHI 406
39 Adolf Schmal, Jr. 27 Austria AUT 406
40 Frants Nielsen 38 Denmark DEN 406
41 Niels Larsen 22 Denmark DEN 405
42 Gustaf Boivie 47 Sweden SWE 401
43 Peter Sofus Nielsen 22 Denmark DEN 397
44 Gerhard Bock 33 Germany GER 395
45 Edward Tickell 51 Great Britain GBR 387
46 Amos Kash 43 Russia RUS 384
47 Alexandros Theofilakis Greece GRE 369
48 Gustaf Stiernspetz 22 Sweden SWE 357
49 Walter Winans 60 United States USA 356
50 Anders Peter Nielsen 44 Denmark DEN 355
51 Hugo Cederschiöld 33 Sweden SWE 352
52 Zoltán Jelenffy-Tóth von Csejthe 35 Hungary HUN 348
53 Edmond Bernhardt 27 Austria AUT 245
54 Heinrich Hoffmann 43 Germany GER 189