Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Men's 25 metre military pistol
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The men's military pistol was one of the five sport shooting
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 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.

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 metre
Metre
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s away. The winner, John Paine of the United States
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, hit the target 25 times. His brother, Sumner Paine
Sumner Paine
Sumner Paine was an American shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Paine entered all three of the pistol events in the 1896 Games...

, hit the target 23 times. Their American-made military revolvers (Colt revolver
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s) were far superior to the arms used by the other contestants.

Results

Place Shooter Score Hits
1 442 25
2 380 23
3 205 Unknown
4 Unknown
5 Unknown
6-13 Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
DNF
DNF
DNF
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