Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's 30 metre free pistol

Men's free pistol
at the Games of the I Olympiad
Venue Kallithea shooting range
Date April 11
Competitors 5 from 3 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Sumner Paine
 United States
2nd, silver medalist(s) Holger Nielsen
 Denmark
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Ioannis Frangoudis
 Greece

The men's 30 metre individual competition with free revolver was one of the five sport shooting events on the 1896 Summer Olympics shooting program. Six competitors entered the pistol event on 11 April. John Paine elected not to compete, leaving Sumner to win the event. The five competitors represented three nations. They each shot five strings of six shots.[1]

Results

PlaceShooterScoreHits12345
1  Sumner Paine (USA) 44224766480120102
2  Holger Nielsen (DEN) 285Unknown12856224100
3  Ioannis Frangoudis (GRE) Unknown
4  Leonidas Morakis (GRE) Unknown
5  Georgios Orphanidis (GRE) Unknown

References

  1. ↑ "Shooting at the 1896 Athina Summer Games: Men's Free Pistol, 30 metres". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2017-10-07.
  • 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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