- Shooting at the Summer Olympics
Shooting sports have been contested at everySummer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the1896 Summer Olympics except at the 1904 & 1928 editions.Men's
The first few Olympiads saw a large number of assorted shooting events without much standardization.
When shooting was reintroduced in
1932 , it consisted of only two events. From this, the number of events have increased steadily until reaching the2000 -2004 maximum of seventeen events. The2008 games will only have fifteen. Events marked as "Men's" were actually open events before the inclusion of separate women's events in that discipline. Two women won medals in such mixed events:Margaret Murdock , silver in50 m Rifle Three positions (1976 ) andZhan Shan , gold in Skeet (1992 ).Events on the current programme are listed at the top.
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