Harcourt Ommundsen

{{Short description|British sports shooter (1878–1915)}}

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|name = Harcourt Ommundsen

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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|11|23|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|09|19|1878|11|23|df=yes}}

|death_place = Belgium

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|known_for = Olympic medalist

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|nationality = British

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{{MedalSport|Men's Shooting}}

{{MedalSilver| 1908 London | Team military rifle}}

{{MedalSilver| 1912 Stockholm | Team military rifle}}

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Arthur Norman Victor Harcourt Ommundsen (23 November 1878 – 19 September 1915) was a British sport shooter who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/om/harcourt-ommundsen-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417235858/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/om/harcourt-ommundsen-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Sports Reference: Harcourt Ommundsen |accessdate=2014-02-18 |work=Sports Reference}}Winner of the King's Prize, Longford Journal, 27 July 1901A King's Prizeman's Estate, Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1915

In the 1908 Olympics, he won a silver medal in the team military rifle event. Four years later, he won a silver medal in the team military rifle event and was seventh in the 600 metre free rifle event.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/42391 |title=Harcourt Ommundsen |work=Olympedia |access-date=10 April 2021}}

Ommundsen was killed in action during the First World War, serving as a lieutenant with the Honourable Artillery Company near Ypres.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference}} He was buried at Brandhoek Military Cemetery nearby.[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/429952 Ommundsen, Harcourt], Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Retrieved 17 August 2008