100 meter running deer

100 meter running deer is a discontinued ISSF shooting event, that was part of the Olympic program from 1908 to 1924, in 1952 and 1956, and of the ISSF World Shooting Championships program from 1929 to 1962, when it was replaced by 50 meter running target.

[1] The British Sporting Rifle Club continues to operate a 100 meter running deer range at the National Shooting Centre, Bisley.

The deer target had a scoring area of three concentric circles, with the smallest counting for 4 points, the middle for 3, and the outermost for 2.

[citation needed] First out was the Individual Single-Shot event in 30 June where 32 shooters from 8 nations competed.

Notably, Czechoslovakia was allowed to compete with an incomplete team; only one shooter participated.

In the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia was again arranged in the format of an Individual Combined Single- and Double-Shot event on 3 and 4 December.

The winner, Vitali Romanenko from Ukrainia and competing for the Soviet Union, scored 441 points.

The American shooter Walter Winans during a 100-meter running deer competition in Wimbledon Common , London (painting by Thomas Blinks, 1888)