Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics

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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.

1 Medal summary
2 Medal table
3 Sub-Committee for Shooting
4 See also
5 References

[edit] 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
Military rifle details	Pantelis Karasevdas Greece (GRE)	Pavlos Pavlidis Greece (GRE)	Nicolaos Trikupis Greece (GRE)
Free rifle details	Georgios Orphanidis Greece (GRE)	Ioannis Phrangoudis Greece (GRE)	Viggo Jensen Denmark (DEN)
25 metre military pistol details	John Paine United States (USA)	Sumner Paine United States (USA)	Nikolaos Morakis Greece (GRE)
25 metre rapid fire pistol details	Ioannis Phrangoudis Greece (GRE)	Georgios Orphanidis Greece (GRE)	Holger Nielsen Denmark (DEN)
Free pistol details	Sumner Paine United States (USA)	Holger Nielsen Denmark (DEN)	Ioannis Phrangoudis Greece (GRE)

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Greece	3	3	3	9
2	United States	2	1	0	3
3	Denmark	0	1	2	3

France, Great Britain, Italy, and Switzerland had shooters compete, but won no medals.

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

List of Olympic medalists in shooting

[edit] 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 [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. (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.

v • d • e Events at the 1896 Summer Olympics (Athens)

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v • d • e Shooting at the Summer Olympics

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