| | Event type
Free Rifle, Any Position, 300 metres, Men1
| Date | 11 – 12 April 1896 — 13:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Skopeftirion, Kallithea | |
| Participants | 20 from 3 countries | |
| Format | 300 metres. Four ten-shot strings. Score for each string determined by multiplying target hits by points scored. | |
The champion, Georgios Orfanidis, was the son of a university professor. The event began on 11 April but was postponed at the request of the competitors when they were unable to finish the competition before darkness.
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Targets Hit | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgios Orfanidis |  GRE | 37 | 1,583 | Gold | ||
| 2 | Ioannis Fragkoudis | GRE | 31 | 1,312 | Silver | ||
| 3 | Viggo Jensen |  DEN | 31 | 1,305 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Anastasios Metaxas | GRE | – | 1,102 | |||
| 5 | Pantelis Karasevdas | GRE | – | 1,039 | |||
| Xenon Michailidis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Nikolaos Trikoupis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Ioannis Theofilakis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Alexandros Theofilakis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Pavlos Pavlidis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Moustakopoulos | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Sidney Merlin |  GBR | – | – | ||||
| Nikolaos Levidis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Karakatsanis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Alexios Fetsis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Georgios Diamantis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Chatzidakis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Antelothanasis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Ioannis Vourakis | GRE | – | – | ||||
| Leonidas Lanngakis | GRE | – | – |