Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's 300 metre free rifle

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Men's 300 metre free rifle
at the Games of the I Olympiad
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Georgios Orphanidis (1897)
Venue Kallithea shooting range
Dates April 11–12
Competitors 20 from 3 nations
Winning score 1583
Medalists
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1st Georgios Orphanidis
 Greece
2nd Ioannis Frangoudis
 Greece
3rd Viggo Jensen
 Denmark
Shooting at the
1896 Summer Olympics
Shooting pictogram.svg
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 300 metre free rifle was one of the five sport shooting events on the Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. The second rifle event and last of the shooting events, the free rifle was begun on 11 April. Each marksman fired 40 shots, in four strings of ten. 25 men entered the event, though only 20 actually competed. They represented three nations. Frangoudis led after the first day, but when the event was continued on 12 April, Orphanidis took the lead and held on to win first place. He hit the target 37 times.

Background

This was the only appearance of the men's 300 metre free rifle event without position requirements.[1][2] A three-positions event would be introduced in 1900 (along with team and individual position medals) and held 11 times between then and 1972.[3]

Competition format

The competition had each shooter fire 40 shots, in 4 strings of 10, at a range of 300 metres. Scoring involved multiplying target hits by points scored in each string.[3]

Schedule

The free rifle was the last of the shooting events, starting in the afternoon of day 6 of competition. It went until it was too dark to shoot, then was postponed until the next morning. It finished at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Precise start times for each session are not known.

Date Time Round
Gregorian Julian
Saturday, 11 April 1896
Sunday, 12 April 1896		 Saturday, 30 March 1896
Sunday, 31 March 1896		 Final

Results

Rank Shooter Nation Score Hits 1 2 3 4
1st Georgios Orphanidis  Greece 1,583 37 328 520 420 315
2nd Ioannis Frangoudis  Greece 1,312 31 470 192 440 210
3rd Viggo Jensen  Denmark 1,305 31 392 423 280 210
4 Anastasios Metaxas  Greece 1,102 Unknown
5 Pantelis Karasevdas  Greece 1,039 Unknown
6–18 Antelothanasis  Greece Unknown
Georgios Diamantis  Greece Unknown'
Alexios Fetsios  Greece Unknown
Karakatsanis  Greece Unknown
Hatzidakis  Greece Unknown
Nikolaos Levidis  Greece Unknown
Sidney Merlin  Great Britain Unknown
Xenon Mikhailidis  Greece Unknown
Moustakopoulos  Greece Unknown
Panagiotis Pavlidis  Greece Unknown
Alexandros Theofilakis  Greece Unknown
Ioannis Theofilakis  Greece Unknown
Nikolaos Trikoupis  Greece Unknown
— Leonidas Langakis  Greece DNF
Ioannis Vourakis  Greece DNF

References

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