1896 Summer Olympics / Shooting
| Shooting at the Olympic Games in 1896 |
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| venue |
.svg){kind=small} Kallithea
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| Competition venue | Scopeftirion |
| Nations | 7th |
| Athletes | 42 (42  )
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| date | 8-12 April 1896 |
| decisions | 5 |
At the 1st Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 , five competitions in sport shooting took place. The venue was the Skopeftirion shooting range in the suburb of Kallithea .
Medal table
| space | country |
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Third | total |
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| 1 |
Greece
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3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 2 |
.svg){kind=small} United States
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2 | 1 | - | 3 |
| 3 |
 Denmark
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- | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Results
Army rifle 300 m
| space | country | athlete | Points |
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| 1 |
GRE
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Georgios Orfanidis | 1583 |
| 2 |
GRE
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Ioannis Frangoudis | 1312 |
| 3 |
THE
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Viggo Jensen | 1305 |
| 4th |
GRE
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Anastasios Metaxas | 1102 |
| 5 |
GRE
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Pantelis Karasevdas | 1039 |
Date: April 11, 1896
20 participants from 3 countries
Army rifle 200 m
| space | country | athlete | Points |
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| 1 |
GRE
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Pantelis Karasevdas | 2320 |
| 2 |
GRE
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Pavlos Pavlidis | 1978 |
| 3 |
GRE
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Nikolaos Trikoupis | 1718 |
| 4th |
GRE
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Anastasios Metaxas | 1701 |
| 5 |
GRE
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Georgios Orfanidis | 1698 |
| 6th |
THE
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Viggo Jensen | 1640 |
| 7th |
GRE
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Georgios Diamantis | 1456 |
| 8th |
 CHE
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Albert Baumann | 1294 |
| 9 |
GRE
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Ioannis Theofilakis | 1261 |
| 10 |
 GBR
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Sidney Merlin | 1156 |
Date: April 9, 1896
42 participants from 7 countries
Free pistol 30 m
| space | country | athlete | Points |
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| 1 |
United States
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Sumner Paine | 442 |
| 2 |
THE
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Holger Louis Nielsen | k. A. |
| 3 |
GRE
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Ioannis Frangoudis | k. A. |
| 4th |
GRE
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Leonidas Morakis | k. A. |
| 5 |
GRE
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Georgios Orfanidis | k. A. |
Date: April 11, 1896
5 participants from 3 countries
Service turret 25 m
| space | country | athlete | Points |
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| 1 |
United States
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John Paine | 442 |
| 2 |
United States
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Sumner Paine | 380 |
| 3 |
GRE
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Nikolaos Morakis | 205 |
| 4th |
GRE
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Ioannis Frangoudis | k. A. |
| 5 |
THE
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Holger Nielsen | k. A. |
Date: April 10, 1896
16 participants from 4 countries
Rapid fire pistol 25 m
| space | country | athlete | Points |
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| 1 |
GRE
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Ioannis Frangoudis | 344 |
| 2 |
GRE
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Georgios Orfanidis | 249 |
| 3 |
THE
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Holger Louis Nielsen | k. A. |
| 4th |
GBR
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Sidney Merlin | DNF |
Date: April 11, 1896
4 participants from 3 countries
Web links
Commons : Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Shooting at the Olympic Games 1896 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Sports at the 1896 Summer Olympics
| Olympic: |
Fencing • Weightlifting • Athletics • Cycling • Wrestling • Shooting • Swimming • Tennis • Gymnastics |