* That 1996 marked the first time electronic

targets were used for the entire match

during the pistol, rifle and running

target Olympic events?

* That USA Shooting earned all but one of

the 32 quota slots allowed each country in

the Olympic shooting events?

* That U.S. shooters have earned 44 gold, 25

silver and 20 bronze Olympic medals since

1896?

* That Los Angeles hosted the largest and

smallest Olympic shoots in history; a

record 459 shooters from 68 nations at the

1984 Olympic Games but only 41 shooters

from 10 nations at the 1932 Games?

* That fifty-one percent of all U.S. Olympic

shooters have been affiliated with the

U.S. Armed Forces?

* That the first woman to win an Olympic

shooting medal was U.S. shooter Margaret

Thompson Murdock, who claimed silver

honors in the 1976 Olympic three-position

match in Montreal?

* That two shooters co-hold the U.S. record

for the most medals won in single Olympics

with swimmer Mark Spitz? Willis Lee and

Lloyd Spooner earned seven medals each in

rifle competition at the 1920 Olympics.

* That only 13 shooters have won two gold

medals in individual Olympic competition,

and four of them are Americans: rifle

shooter Gary Anderson (1964, 68); rifle

shooter Morris Fisher (1920, 24); pistol

shooter Alfred Lane (1912); and rifle

shooter Lones Wigger (1964, 72)?

* That USA's greatest Olympic shooting

successes have come in men's free rifle

prone and free pistol? Four Americans have

claimed Olympic prone titles: Ed Etzel

(1984), Art Cook (1948), Lawrence

Nuesslein (1920), and Frederick Hird

(1912). Our Olympic free pistol champions

include: Joe Benner (1952), Carl Frederick

(1920), Alfred Lane (1912) and Sumner

Paine (1896).

* That Carl Osburn has won more Olympic

medals than any other U.S. shooter in

history, collecting 10 individual and team

honors in three Olympics (1912, 20, 24)?

Osburn also holds the U.S. record for the

most medals won in individual competition,

having earned two silvers in 1912, a gold

in 1920, and another silver in 1924.

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