Alfred Lane

Alfred Page Lane, born on 26 September 1891 to Frederic Henry Lane and Louise Abbott Mosely, was an American sport shooter who competed at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics and is a five-time Olympic champion. He is the first of five shooters to have won two individual Olympic gold medals. He began training at the Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association in New York and by the age of nineteen had won several United States Revolver Association championships; after the 1912 Games he held the association champion titles for three consecutive years. Outside shooting he was employed by Remington Arms for their advertising campaigns and later headed the photographic department of a magazine publisher. His five gold medals and one bronze medal were displayed on loan from his family at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia, and he entered the United States International Shooters Hall of Fame in 1991. He died on 2 October 1965.