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

Men's military rifle
at the Games of the I Olympiad
VenueKallithea shooting range
DatesApril 8–9
Competitors42 from 7 nations
Medalists
 
 
 
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

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