The men's 200 metre military rifle event was one of five
sport shooting
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events on the
Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics
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 se ...
programme. It was held at a distance of 200
metre
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s, on 8 April and 9 April, with each shooter firing half of his shots on the first day and half the second. Shooters fired four strings of ten shots each, for a total of 40 shots. 42 shooters, representing each of the seven nations that had shooters in
Athens
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, competed.
When the competition finished in the morning of 9 April,
Pantelis Karasevdas
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of
Greece
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had hit the target all 40 times, amassing a score of 2,350 points.
Panagiotis Pavlidis
Pavlos Pavlidis ( el, Παύλος Παυλίδης, died 1968) was a Greek sport shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Pavlidis placed second in the military rifle competition with a score of 1,978. He had hit the tar ...
hit the target 38 times and came in second.
Background
This was the only appearance of the 200 metre military rifle event. Military rifle categories would return in 1920 (a three positions event) and 1924 (seven events at ). It was the first event held at the newly inaugurated
Kallithea
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shooting range. A ceremonial first shot was fired by
Olga Constantinovna of Russia
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, the queen consort of the Hellenes.
[Official Report, part 2, p. 73.]
Competition format
The competition had each shooter fire 40 shots, in 4 strings of 10, at a range of 200 metres. Scoring involved multiplying target hits by points scored in each string.
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Schedule
Results
Only partial results are known.
References
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