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

Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol at the Games of the I Olympiad
Venue	Kallithea shooting range
Date	April 11
Competitors	4 from 3 nations
Medalists
Ioannis Frangoudis  Greece   Georgios Orphanidis  Greece   Holger Nielsen  Denmark

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 rapid fire pistol was one of the five sport shooting events on the Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. With the American Paine brothers disqualified from entering due to their armament not being of the required specification for the event (only muzzle-loading pistols of .45 caliber were allowed), only four shooters entered the fourth shooting event. Three nations were represented. Each shooter fired five strings of six shots at a target 25 metres distant. The competition was held on 11 April and resulted in the top two places going to the Greek marksmen. Nielsen took third place and Merlin did not finish.

Results

Place	Shooter	Score	Hits
1	Ioannis Frangoudis (GRE)	344	23
2	Georgios Orphanidis (GRE)	249	20
3	Holger Nielsen (DEN)	Unknown
–	Sidney Merlin (GBR)	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 978-0-7864-0379-0.  (Excerpt available at )
• Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-86197-342-9.