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

Men's free rifle
at the Games of the I Olympiad
Venue Kallithea shooting range
Dates April 11–12
Competitors 20 from 3 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Georgios Orphanidis
 Greece
2nd, silver medalist(s) Ioannis Frangoudis
 Greece
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Viggo Jensen
 Denmark

The men's 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.

Results

PlaceShooterScoreHits1234
1  Georgios Orphanidis (GRE) 1,58337328520420315
2  Ioannis Frangoudis (GRE) 1,31231470192440210
3  Viggo Jensen (DEN) 1,30531392423280210
4  Anastasios Metaxas (GRE) 1,102Unknown
5  Pantelis Karasevdas (GRE) 1,039Unknown
6-18  Antelothanasis (GRE) Unknown
 Georgios Diamantis (GRE) Unknown
 Alexios Fetsios (GRE) Unknown
 Karakatsanis (GRE) Unknown
 Hatzidakis (GRE) Unknown
 Nikolaos Levidis (GRE) Unknown
 Sidney Merlin (GBR) Unknown
 Zinon Michailidis (GRE) Unknown
 Moustakopoulos (GRE) Unknown
 Panagiotis Pavlidis (GRE) Unknown
 Alexandros Theofilakis (GRE) Unknown
 Ioannis Theofilakis (GRE) Unknown
 Nikolaos Trikoupis (GRE) Unknown
–  Leonidas Langakis (GRE) DNF
 Ioannis Vourakis (GRE) DNF

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 )
  • 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 )
  • Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.
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