Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Shooting
Games:	1896 Summer
Venue:	Kallithea
Dates:	8–12 April 1896
Num Events:	5 (5 men, 0 women)
Competitors:	61
Nations:	7
Next:	1900

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. Sixty-one shooters from seven nations competed.

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.

200 metre military rifle
300 metre free rifle, three positions
25 metre military pistol
25 metre rapid fire pistol
30 metre free pistol

Participating nations

A total of 61 shooters from 7 nations competed at the Athens Games:

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

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in shooting

References

• Book: Lampros, S.P. . Polites, N.G. . De Coubertin, Pierre . Philemon, P.J. . Anninos, C. . amp . The Olympic Games: BC 776  - AD 1896 . Athens . Charles Beck . 1897 . (Digitally available at http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1896/1896.pdf)
• Book: Mallon, Bill . Widlund, Ture . amp . The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary . Jefferson . McFarland . 1998 . 0-7864-0379-9 . registration . (Excerpt available at http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/Mallon/1896.pdf)
• Book: Smith, Michael Llewellyn . Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games . London . Profile Books . 2004 . 1-86197-342-X.