1908 Summer Olympics events. Oscar Swahn from Sweden, who won the gold medal for running deer shooting, became the oldest Olympic champion of all time, and set another age record by being 72 years and 279 days old during his triumph at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. One of the more unusual shooting events in 1908 was dueling. The discipline, which was an associate event (i.e. not official), was performed by facing opponents wearing protective clothing and masks and firing wax bullets. American John Taylor was a member of the winning medley relay team, making him the first African-American athlete to
Athletics at the 1930 Far Eastern Championship Games he would won the 1932 Olympics triple jump. Shuhei Nishida—pole vault and decathlon champion here—was an Olympic silver medallist at the same games. This success also extended globally for Japan, as Oda and Nishida were gold medallist at the 1930 International University Games. Two of the Filipino medallists in Tokyo, high jumper Toribio and Miguel White, later won Olympic medals (as of 2015, they are the only athletics medallists for the Philippines at the Olympics). Athletics at the 1930 Far Eastern Championship Games At the 1930 Far Eastern Championship Games, the athletics events were held in Tokyo, Japan in May.