Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre military rifle

Men's military rifle at the Games of the I Olympiad
Venue	Kallithea shooting range
Dates	April 8–9
Competitors	42 from 7 nations
Medalists
Pantelis Karasevdas Greece   Pavlos Pavlidis Greece   Nicolaos Trikupis Greece

Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics
Rifle
200 m military rifle		men
300 m free rifle, 3 pos.		men
Pistol
25 m military pistol		men
25 m rapid fire pistol		men
30 m free pistol		men

The men's military rifle event was one of five sport shooting events on the Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. It was held at a distance of 200 metres, on 8 April and 9 April, with each shooter firing half of his shots on the first day and half the second. Shooters fired four strings of ten shots each, for a total of 40 shots. 42 shooters, representing each of the seven nations that had shooters in Athens, competed.

When the competition finished in the morning of 9 April, Pantelis Karasevdas of Greece had hit the target all 40 times, amassing a score of 2,350 points. Pavlos Pavlidis hit the target 38 times and came in second.

Results

Place	Shooter	Score	Hits	1	2	3	4
1	Pantelis Karasevdas (GRE)	2,350	40	480	Unknown
2	Pavlos Pavlidis (GRE)	1,978	38	Unknown
3	Nicolaos Trikupis (GRE)	1,713	34	Unknown
4	Anastasios Metaxas (GRE)	1,701	Unknown
5	Georgios Orphanidis (GRE)	1,698	Unknown
6	Viggo Jensen (DEN)	1,640	30	Unknown
7	Georgios Diamantis (GRE)	1,456	Unknown		384	Unknown
8	Albert Baumann (SUI)	1,294	Unknown
9	Ioannis Theofilakis (GRE)	1,261	Unknown		312	Unknown
10	Sidney Merlin (GBR)	1,156	Unknown	477	Unknown
11	Alexios Fetsios (GRE)	894	Unknown		272	Unknown
12	Eugen Schmidt (DEN)	845	12	Unknown
	Spiridon Stais (GRE)	845	Unknown
14-41	Charles Waldstein (USA)	Unknown		354	154	Unknown
	Machonet (GBR)	Unknown
	Rivabella (ITA)	Unknown
	Aristovoulos Petmezas (GRE)	Unknown
	Albin Lermusiaux (FRA)	Unknown
	G. Karagiannopoulos (GRE)	Unknown
	22 others, names unknown (GRE)	Unknown
–	Holger Nielsen (DEN)	Retired after two strings		Unknown		Did not finish

References

• Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; & Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck. (Digitally available at )
• Mallon, Bill; & Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9. (Excerpt available at )
• Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.