Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, five sport shooting events were contested. These events took place at the newly constructed shooting range at Kallithea. They were organized and prepared by the Sub-Committee for Shooting. 61 shooters from seven nations competed.

Medal summary

These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal and subsequent places received no award.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
200 metre military rifle	Pantelis Karasevdas (GRE)	Panagiotis Pavlidis (GRE)	Nicolaos Trikupis (GRE)
300 metre free rifle, three positions	Georgios Orphanidis (GRE)	Ioannis Frangoudis (GRE)	Viggo Jensen (DEN)
25 metre military pistol	John Paine (USA)	Sumner Paine (USA)	Nikolaos Morakis (GRE)
25 metre rapid fire pistol	Ioannis Frangoudis (GRE)	Georgios Orphanidis (GRE)	Holger Nielsen (DEN)
30 metre free pistol	Sumner Paine  Vereinigte Staaten	Holger Nielsen  Dänemark	Ioannis Frangoudis  Griechenland

Participating nations

A total of 61 shooters from 7 nations competed at the Athens Games:

•  Dänemark (3)
•  Frankreich (1)
•  Great Britain (2)
•  Griechenland (50)
•  Italien (1)
•  Schweiz (1)
•  Vereinigte Staaten (3)

Medal table

1	Griechenland	3	3	3	9
2	Vereinigte Staaten	2	1	0	3
3	Dänemark	0	1	2	3

Sub-Committee for Shooting

• HRH Prince Nicholas of Greece, president
• Ioannis Phrangoudis, secretary
• Demosthenes Staikos
• Alc. Krassas
• Joan. Konstantinides
• Alex. Kondostavlos
• Ath. Botzaris
• Ath. Pierrakos
• Georges Antonopoulos
• Stephen Skouloudis

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in shooting

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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (Digitally available at [1])
• 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (Excerpt available at [2])
• Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.