Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's 25 metre military pistol

Men's 25 metre military pistol at the Games of the I Olympiad
Venue	Kallithea shooting range
Date	April 10
Competitors	16 from 4 nations
Medalists
John Paine  United States   Sumner Paine  United States   Nikolaos Morakis  Greece

Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics
Rifle
200 m military rifle		men
300 m free rifle, 3 pos.		men
Pistol
25 m military pistol		men
25 m rapid fire pistol		men
30 m free pistol		men

The men's military pistol was one of the five sport shooting events on the Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme.

16 competitors from four nations entered the military pistol match, held on 10 April. Each shot thirty rounds in five strings of six at a target 25 metres away. The winner, John Paine of the United States, hit the target 25 times. His brother, Sumner Paine, hit the target 23 times. Their American-made military revolvers (Colt revolvers) were far superior to the arms used by the other contestants.

Results

Place	Shooter	Score	Hits
1	John Paine (USA)	442	25
2	Sumner Paine (USA)	380	23
3	Nikolaos Morakis (GRE)	205	Unknown
4	Ioannis Phrangoudis (GRE)	Unknown
5	Holger Nielsen (DEN)	Unknown
6-13	Zenon Mikhailidis (GRE)	Unknown
	Georgios Orphanidis (GRE)	Unknown
	Pantazidis (GRE)	Unknown
	Patsouris (GRE)	Unknown
	Pavlos Pavlidis (GRE)	Unknown
	Aristovoulos Petmezas (GRE)	Unknown
	Platis (GRE)	Unknown
	Vavis (GRE)	Unknown
–	Pantelis Karasevdas (GRE)	DNF
	Sidney Merlin (GBR)	DNF
	Sanidis (GRE)	DNF

References

• 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.