Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre military rifle
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Men's military rifle at the Games of the I Olympiad
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Venue | Kallithea shooting range | |||||||||
Dates | April 8–9 | |||||||||
Competitors | 42 from 7 nations | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics |
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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 |
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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 |