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Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre

Olympic venue in Athens, Greece

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ3235007 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre was the site of the shooting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The venue is located in Markópoulo, on the outskirts of the eastern suburbs of Athens. It has a seating capacity of 4,000, though a public capacity of only 2,330 for the Olympics. The venue was completed in March, 2004 and officially opened on August 2, 2004, shortly before the beginning of the Olympics.

The facility is now in the process of being converted to the official shooting range and training center of the Hellenic Police.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre” as olympic venue in Athens, Greece. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Markopoulo, Olympic and Shooting can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as olympic venue in Athens, Greece. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3235007. Authority coordinates are 37.871, 23.907. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.