Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Men's free pistol

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The men's free pistol was one of the five sport shooting events on the Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. Six competitors entered the 30 metre pistol event on 11 April. John Paine elected not to compete, leaving Sumner to win the event alone. The five competitors represented three nations. They each shot five strings of six shots.

Place Shooter Nation Score Hits 1 2 3 4 5
1 Sumner Paine United States United States 442 24 76 64 80 120 102
2 Holger Nielsen Denmark Denmark 285 Unknown 12 85 62 24 100
3 Ioannis Phrangoudis Greece Greece Unknown
4 Leonidas Morakis Greece Greece Unknown
5 Georgios Orphanidis Greece Greece Unknown

  • 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. 
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