The men's military rifle event was one of five sport shooting

Shooting sports

A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

 events on the Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics

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...

 programme. It was held at a distance of 200 metre

Metre

The metre , symbol m, is the base unit of length in the International System of Units . Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole , its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology...

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

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

, competed.

When the competition finished in the morning of 9 April, Pantelis Karasevdas

Pantelis Karasevdas

Pantelis Karasevdas was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Karasevdas competed in the military rifle event. He dominated the field, hitting the target with all 40 of his shots for a total score of 2,350. His score in the first string of 10 shots was...

 of Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 had hit the target all 40 times, amassing a score of 2,350 points. Pavlos Pavlidis hit the target 38 times and came in second.

Results

Place	Shooter	Score	Hits	1	2	3	4
1		2,350	40	480	Unknown
2		1,978	38	Unknown
3		1,713	34	Unknown
4		1,701	Unknown
5		1,698	Unknown
6		1,640	30	Unknown
7		1,456	Unknown		384	Unknown
8		1,294	Unknown
9		1,261	Unknown		312	Unknown
10		1,156	Unknown	477	Unknown
11		894	Unknown		272	Unknown
12		845	12	Unknown
		845	Unknown
14-41		Unknown		354	154	Unknown
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	22 others, names unknown (GRE Greece at the 1896 Summer Olympics Greece was the host nation of the 1896 Summer Olympics held in Athens. The number of Greek contestants is commonly cited as 169, but as many as 176 Greeks contested events in all nine sports. The Greeks were by far the most successful nation in terms of total medals with 46, 26 more than the... )	Unknown
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