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Olympics Shooting
With the exception of 1904 and 1928, shooting sports have been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896.
The first few Olympiads saw a large number of various shooting events without much standardization. When shooting was reintroduced in 1932, it consisted of only two events. From this, the number of events steadily increased until 2000-2004 maximum of seventeen events. The 2008 games will only have fifteen.
Events marked as "Men's" were actually open events before the inclusion of female events in that discipline. Two women won medals in such mixed events: Margaret Murdock, silver in 50 m Rifle Three positions (1976) and Zhan Shan, gold in Skeet (1992).
Currently with 15 shooting events on the Olympic program, 390 participants are allowed. The qualification consists of two parts: A minimum qualification score (MQS) that each shooter has to perform in at least one ISSF championship to be eligible for the Olympics in that certain event. The MQS are set rather low. A number of quota places in each event, adding up to a total of 390. The quota places are won by the national federations when their shooters rank high in ISSF championships. Some quota places are left as wild cards. Each quota place gives the national federation the right to send one shooter to compete in that event. However, there is a maximum of two shooters per event and country. On the other hand, a shooter filling a quota place in one event may compete in other events as well, as long as the MQS have been fulfilled. Most shooters combine events in this way (apart from those in 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol, Skeet and Women's Trap, who do not have events similar to theirs on the program).
Surely shooting seems pretty easy to understand, but actually its not. With only three shooting events in the first Games in 1896, the Athens Olympics featured seventeen, ten for men and seven for women. The Olympic shooting competition is more humane than it was back in 1900 in Paris. Earlier competitors fired at live pigeons. But now in Athens, no living creature is harmed during the shooting competition.
Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place at a shooting range complex in Mollet del Valles outside Barcelona. Competitions were held in thirteen events six men's events, four women's events, and three for both genders. It was the first time a woman (Zhan Shan in Skeet) took a gold medal in an open event, and also the last time they were held. From 1996 and on, all shooting events have been either men's or women's. It was also the first games for 10 m Running Target, as well as the first games with the new targets in all rifle and pistol events, leading to a large number of automatic Olympic records.
The 1996 Summer Olympics took place at the Wolf Creek Shooting Complex near Atlanta, Georgia. Competitions were held in ten men's events and five women's events. For men's and women's Double Trap, it was the first Olympic competition, and because a women's shotgun event thus had been added, it was also the first time that no Olympic shooting competitions were open to both genders. This caused some controversy as the winner of the open Skeet event at the Barcelona games in 1992 was a woman, China's Shan Zhang, and Double Trap, the only event she would now be allowed to compete in, is quite unsimilar to Skeet. Women's Trap and Skeet were added to the program in 2000.
In shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 390 competitors contested 17 events (10 for men and 7 for women). The competition took place at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, in the east of the Greek region of Attica.
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