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.

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

[edit] Medal table

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

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

[edit] Sub-Committee for Shooting

[edit] See also

[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. 


Events at the 1896 Summer Olympics (Athens)
Athletics • Cycling • Fencing • Gymnastics • Shooting • Swimming • Tennis • Weightlifting • Wrestling
Shooting at the Summer Olympics
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008
See also: List of Olympic medalists in shooting
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