| Date | 8 – 9 April 1896 — 10:30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Skopeftirion, Kallithea | |
| Participants | 20 from 7 countries | |
| Format | 200 metres. Four 10-shot strings. Score for each string determined by multiplying target hits by points scored. | |
Pantelis Karasevdas was a law student. He won the military rifle competition by a huge margin, and was successful in hitting the target on all 40 of his shots.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Targets Hit | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pantelis Karasevdas |  GRE | 40 | 2,350 | Gold | ||
| 2 | Pavlos Pavlidis | GRE | 38 | 1,978 | Silver | ||
| 3 | Nikolaos Trikoupis | GRE | 34 | 1,713 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Anastasios Metaxas | GRE | – | 1,701 | |||
| 5 | Georgios Orfanidis | GRE | – | 1,698 | |||
| 6 | Viggo Jensen |  DEN | 30 | 1,640 | |||
| 7 | Georgios Diamantis | GRE | – | 1,456 | |||
| 8 | Albert Baumann |  SUI | – | 1,294 | |||
| 9 | Ioannis Theofilakis | GRE | – | 1,261 | |||
| 10 | Sidney Merlin |  GBR | – | 1,156 | |||
| 11 | Alexios Fetsis | GRE | – | 894 | |||
| =12 | Eugen Schmidt | DEN | 26 | 845 | |||
| =12 | Spyridon Stais | GRE | – | – | |||
| Charles Waldstein |  USA | – | – | ||||
| Machonet | GBR | – | – | ||||
| Giuseppe Rivabella |  ITA | – | – | ||||
| Aristovoulos Petmezas | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Albin Lermusiaux |  FRA | – | – | ||||
| G. Karagiannopoulos | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Holger Nielsen | DEN | – | – | ||||
| Roberto Minervini | ITA | – | – |
