Shooting at the Summer Olympics

Shooting sports have been included at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics except at the 1904 and 1928 games.

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Events

Shooting was one of the nine events at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896. Early competitions included some events now regarded as unusual, such as live pigeon shooting in [Shooting at the Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 300 metre free rifle, team|1900 Summer Olympics|1900]; dueling in 1906 and [Shooting at the Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's trap, team|1908 Summer Olympics|1908]; and numerous events restricted to military weapons. After the 1900 games, the pigeons were replaced with clay targets. In 1907, the International Shooting Sport Federation came into existence and brought some standardizations to the sport. Shooting events were held in 1908, 1912, 1920 and 1924.
When shooting was reintroduced in 1932, it consisted of two events. From this, the number of events have increased steadily until reaching the 2000–2004 maximum of seventeen events. The 2008 games had only fifteen. Events marked as "Men's" were nominally open events from 1968 until 1980, although very few women competed in them. For instance, only five women competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, while the next [Shooting at the Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre running target|1984 Summer Olympics|Summer Olympics in Los Angeles], which introduced women-only events, featured 77 female competitors. Two women won medals in mixed events: Margaret Murdock, silver in rifle 3 positions and Zhang Shan, gold in skeet.
Events on the current program are listed at the top.

Men's

Past events that occurred only once
Only at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Only at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Only at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Only at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Only at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Only at the 1924 Summer Olympics

600 metre rifle prone

Past events that occurred twice to six times

300 metre rifle, team: 1900, 1908, 1912, 1920
100 metre running deer
* Single shot, individual: 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924
* Double shot, individual: 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924
* Single shots, team: 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924
* Double shots, team: 1920, 1924
* Single/Double shots: [Shooting at the Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre running deer, single and double shot|1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre running deer, single and double shot|1952], [Shooting at the Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre running deer, single and double shot|1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre running deer, single and double shot|1956]
50 metre running target: [Shooting at the Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre running target|1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre running target|1972], [Shooting at the Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre running target|1976 Summer Olympics – Mixed 50 metre running target|1976], 1980, 1984, [Shooting at the Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre running target|1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre running target|1988]
10 metre running target: [Shooting at the Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre running target|1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre running target|1992], [Shooting at the Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's double trap|1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre running target|1996], [Shooting at the Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre running target|2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre running target|2000], [Shooting at the Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's double trap|2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre running target|2004]
50 metre rifle: 1920, 1924
50 metre rifle, team prone: 1908, 1912
Pistol: 1900, 1908, 1912, 1920
Rapid fire pistol, team: 1912, 1920
Double trap: 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, [Shooting at the Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's double trap|2012 Summer Olympics – Men's double trap|2012], [Shooting at the Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's double trap|2016 Summer Olympics – Men's double trap|2016]
Trap, team: 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924
Muzzle-loading pistols.
20 metres, military pistols, professionals.
30 metres, dueling pistols.
30 metres, military pistols.
50 and 100 yards, miniature rifles.
50 yards.

Women's

Past events

Double trap : 1996, 2000, 2004

Nations

No. of nations	7	8	0	14	16	18	27	0	10	29	28	41	37	59	51	62	71	60	38	68	66	83	100	103	106	103	108	97
No. of shooters	61	72	0	215	284	234	258	0	41	141	188	218	156	313	262	351	397	344	239	460	396	407	419	408	390	390	390	390

Medal table

''Updated after 2024 Olympics''

Multi-participation

Afanasijs Kuzmins with nine participations is the record holder in this special classification.

	Athlete	Country	Editions	Event
9	Afanasijs Kuzmins		1976, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012	Pistol
8	Francisco Boza		1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2016	Shotgun
8	Rajmond Debevec		1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012	Rifle
8	Giovanni Pellielo		1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2024	Shotgun
7	François Lafortune Jr.		1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976	Rifle
7	Ralf Schumann		1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012	Pistol
7	Ragnar Skanåker		1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996	Pistol
6	Nasser Al-Attiyah		1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016	Shotgun
6	Fehaid Aldeehani		1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012, 2016	Shotgun
6	Abdullah Alrashidi		1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016	Shotgun
6	Sorin Babii		1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004	Pistol
6	Andrea Benelli		1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008	Shotgun
6	Michael Diamond		1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012	Shotgun
6	Franck Dumoulin		1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012	Pistol
6	Thomas Farnik		1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012	Rifle
6	Juan Giha		1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000	Shotgun
6	Juha Hirvi		1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008	Rifle
6	Tanyu Kiriakov		1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008	Pistol
6	Kanstantsin Lukashyk		1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012	Pistol
6	Russell Mark		1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012	Shotgun
6	Sergei Martynov		1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012	Rifle
6	William McMillan		1952, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976	Pistol
6	Emil Milev		1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012, 2016	Pistol
6	Stevan Pletikosic		1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016	Rifle
6	John Primrose		1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1988, 1992	Shotgun
6	Adam Smelczynski		1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976	Shotgun
6	Harald Stenvaag		1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004	Rifle
6	Eric Swinkels		1972, 1976, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996	Shotgun
6	Guillermo Alfredo Torres		1980, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012	Shotgun
6	Yifu Wang		1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004	Pistol