Shooting History

Shooting is one of my favorite sports,Here is a short history of it:

Some form of Shooting has been around since prehistoric times, when men hunted prey to secure food or protect themselves from enemies. The ancient Greeks had dove-shooting contests in honour of their gods. By the 10th century, Indians, Slavs, Celts and Germans all practiced similar kinds of rituals. The invention of gunpowder provided great impetus to the sport, for it led to the development of the gun. The founding of Shooting clubs started in numerous European towns - in Germany and Switzerland, as early as the 13th and 14th centuries.
Little by little, Shooting as a sport became very popular; 1907 saw the creation of what is known today as the International Shooting Sport Federation, originally called the International Shooting Union. Men’s Shooting was one of the nine sports on the programme of the first Olympic Games of modern times in Athens in 1896. In the Paris Games in 1900, live pigeons were used as moving targets; this was eventually considered unethical and unsporting, so after 1900 the pigeons were replaced with clay targets (‘clay pigeons’). The women’s Shooting disciplines were first included in the Los Angeles 1984 Games.
Greece’s first Olympic victories came in 1896. The medallists were: Georgios Frangoudis (pistol, 25 m, gold; rifle, 300 m, silver); Georgios Orfanidis (rifle, 300 m, gold; pistol, 25 m, silver); Pantelis Karasevdas (gras gun, 200 m, gold); and P. Pavlidis (gras gun, 200 m, silver).
At the Mid-Olympics of 1906, there was a gold medal for Konstantinos Skarlatos (precision pistol, 25 m); silvers for I. Perridis (trap) and An. Metaxas (double trap); and three bronzes, for G.Skotadis and A.Rhangavis (revolver, 25 m). The one success of the Greek delegation at the 1920 Games was a silver medal for revolver. The Hellenic Shooting Federation (SKOE) was founded in 1932.

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http://eshop.athens2004.com/
http://utahshootingsports.com/usscshooting.htm

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