Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London saw fifteen shooting events. Most of the events were held at Bisley, Surrey while the trap shooting events were held at Uxendon.
Competition schedule
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! Event ↓ / Date → || colspan=3 | Wed 8|| colspan=3 | Thu 9|| colspan=3 | Fri 10|| colspan=3 | Sat 11
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| colspan=21 class="event"|Rifle
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| class="event"|Men's 1000 yd free rifle || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 |
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| class="event"|Men's 300 m free rifle, 3 positions || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F
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| class="event"|Men's 300 m free rifle, team || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F || colspan=3 class="final"|F || colspan=3 |
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| class="event"|Men's military rifle, team || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F || colspan=3 class="final"|F
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| class="event"|Men's stationary target small-bore rifle || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F
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| class="event"|Men's moving target small-bore rifle || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F
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| class="event"|Men's disappearing target small-bore rifle || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F
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| class="event"|Men's team small-bore rifle || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F
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| colspan=21 class="event"|Pistol
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| class="event"|Men's 50 yd pistol || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F || colspan=3 |
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| class="event"|Men's 50 yard team pistol || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F
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| colspan=21 class="event"|Shotgun
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| class="event"|Men's trap || colspan=3 class="qualifiers"|Q || colspan=3 class="qualifiers"|Q || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F
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| class="event"|Men's team trap || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="qualifiers"|Q || colspan=3 class="qualifiers"|Q || colspan=3 class="final"|F
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| colspan=21 class="event"|Running deer
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| class="event"|Men's single-shot running deer || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 |
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| class="event"|Men's double-shot running deer || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F || colspan=3 class="final"|F || colspan=3 |
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| class="event"|Men's team single-shot running deer || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 | || colspan=3 class="final"|F || colspan=3 |
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Medal summary
A total of 45 medals were won by 8 NOC's.
Medal table
Events
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| 1000 yd free rifle<br />
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| 300 m free rifle, three positions<br />
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| 300 m free rifle, team<br />
| <br />Julius Braathe<br />Albert Helgerud<br />Einar Liberg<br />Olaf Sæther<br />Ole Sæther<br />Gudbrand Skatteboe
| <br />Per-Olof Arvidsson<br />Janne Gustafsson<br />Axel Jansson<br />Gustaf Adolf Jonsson<br />Claës Rundberg<br />Gustav-Adolf Sjöberg
| <br />Eugène Balme<br />Raoul de Boigne<br />Albert Courquin<br />Léon Johnson<br />Maurice Lecoq<br />André Parmentier
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| Team military rifle<br />
| <br />Charles Benedict<br />Kellogg Casey<br />Ivan Eastman<br />William Leuschner<br />William Martin<br />Charles Winder
| <br />Arthur Fulton<br />John Martin<br />Harcourt Ommundsen<br />Walter Padgett<br />Philip Richardson<br />Fleetwood Varley
| <br />Charles Crowe<br />William Eastcott<br />Harry Kerr<br />Dugald McInnis<br />William Smith<br />Bertram Williams
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| Stationary target small-bore rifle<br />
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| Moving target small-bore rifle<br />
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| Disappearing target small-bore rifle<br />
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| Team small-bore rifle<br />
| <br />Edward Amoore<br />Harold Humby<br />Maurice Matthews<br />William Pimm
| <br />Eric Carlberg<br />Vilhelm Carlberg<br />Johan Hübner von Holst<br />Franz-Albert Schartau
| <br />Henri Bonnefoy<br />Paul Colas<br />Léon Lécuyer<br />André Regaud
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| Single-shot running deer<br />
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| Double-shot running deer<br />
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| Team single-shot running deer<br />
| <br />Arvid Knöppel<br />Ernst Rosell<br />Alfred Swahn<br />Oscar Swahn
| <br />William Ellicott<br />William Russell Lane-Joynt<br />Charles Nix<br />Ted Ranken
| none awarded
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| Individual pistol<br />
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| Team pistol<br />
| <br />Charles Axtell<br />Irving Calkins<br />John Dietz<br />James Gorman
| <br />René Englebert<br />Charles Paumier du Verger<br />Réginald Storms<br />Paul Van Asbroeck
| <br />Geoffrey Coles<br />William Ellicott<br />Henry Lynch-Staunton<br />Jesse Wallingford
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| Individual trap shooting<br />
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| Team trap shooting<br />
| <br />Percy Easte<br />Alexander Maunder<br />Frederic Moore<br />Charles Palmer<br />John Pike<br />John Postans
| <br />George Beattie<br />Walter Ewing<br />Mylie Fletcher<br />David McMackon<br />George Vivian<br />Arthur Westover
| <br />John Butt<br />Henry Creasey<br />Bob Hutton<br />William Morris<br />George Skinner<br />George Whitaker
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Participating nations
A total of 215 shooters from 14 nations competed at the London Games:
The official report does not mention Russia, and it does mention Italy and Australia as "absent". Other authors doubt this claim, and note that Russia had been living next to Gregorian-calendar Europe for two centuries and was used to the difference.