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Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed trap

The trap competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics was an open-gender event held from 27 to 29 August 1972 at Schießanlage. There were 57 competitors from 34 nations, with each nation limited to two shooters.[1] The 1970 and 1971 world champion and co-holder of the world record Michel Carrega of France finished a surprise second to Angelo Scalzone of Italy, who broke the world record with a near perfect performance of 199 out of 200.[2] Bronze went to Silvano Basagni, also of Italy. Scalzone's victory was Italy's third gold medal in the last five Games; Carrega's medal was France's first medal in the trap since the nation swept the medals in 1900.

Trap
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
The medalists on the podium
VenueSchießanlage
Dates27–29 August 1972
Competitors57 from 34 nations
Winning score199 WR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Angelo Scalzone  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Michel Carrega  France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Silvano Basagni  Italy
← 1968
1976 →

Background edit

This was the 11th appearance of the men's ISSF Olympic trap event. The event was held at every Summer Olympics from 1896 to 1924 (except 1904, when no shooting events were held) and from 1952 to 2016; it was open to women from 1968 to 1996.[3]

Four of the top 10 shooters from the 1968 Games returned: sixth-place finisher (and 1956 silver medalist) Adam Smelczyński of Poland, seventh-place finisher Aleksandr Alipov of the Soviet Union, eighth-place finisher John Primrose of Canada, and tenth-place finisher Karni Singh of India. Two-time (1970 and 1971) reigning World Champion Michel Carrega of France was favored in the event; 1969 World Champion (and 1964 Olympic gold medalist) Ennio Mattarelli was not on the Italian squad, with Angelo Scalzone and Silvano Basagni the pair from Italy.[1]

Brazil, Kenya, Swaziland, and Syria each made their debut in the event. Great Britain made its 11th appearance, the only nation to have competed at each edition of the event to that point.

Competition format edit

The competition used the 200-target format introduced with the return of trap to the Olympics in 1952. Only a single round of shooting was done, with all shooters facing 200 targets. Shooting was done in 8 series of 25 targets. Ties were broken by the best score in round 8, if still tied after that it goes to round 7 and continues until the tie is broken.[1]

Records edit

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record Multiple 198 Multiple Multiple
Olympic record   Ennio Mattarelli (ITA)
  Bob Braithwaite (GBR)		 198 Tokyo, Japan
Mexico City, Mexico		 15–17 October 1964
18–19 October 1968

Angelo Scalzone broke the world record, hitting 199 of 200 targets.

Schedule edit

Date Time Round
Sunday, 27 August 1972
Monday, 28 August 1972
Tuesday, 29 August 1972		 9:30 Final

Results edit

Rank Shooter Nation 1 2 3 4 Course 1 5 6 7 8 Total Notes
  Angelo Scalzone   Italy 25 25 25 25 100 24 25 25 25 199 WR
  Michel Carrega   France 24 24 25 25 98 25 25 25 25 198
  Silvano Basagni   Italy 24 24 25 25 98 25 25 23 24 195
4 Burckhardt Hoppe   East Germany 25 25 24 21 95 24 24 25 25 193
5 Johnny Påhlsson   Sweden 23 25 24 25 97 23 25 23 25 193
6 James Poindexter   United States 24 25 22 25 96 25 24 22 25 192
7 John Primrose   Canada 25 23 22 24 94 24 25 25 24 192
8 Marcos José Olsen   Brazil 22 25 24 22 93 25 24 24 25 191
9 Ricardo Sancho   Spain 25 25 23 23 96 24 22 24 25 191
10 Eladio Vallduvi   Spain 23 24 23 24 94 25 24 24 24 191
11 Adam Smelczyński   Poland 24 23 24 20 91 25 25 25 24 190
12 Heinz Leibinger   West Germany 23 24 22 25 94 25 24 23 24 190
13 Aleksandr Alipov   Soviet Union 25 21 25 25 96 23 24 23 24 190
14 Gheorghe Florescu   Romania 23 23 25 24 95 24 24 24 23 190
15 Aleksandr Androshkin   Soviet Union 25 25 24 23 97 24 22 25 22 190
16 Guy Rénard   Belgium 24 23 25 24 96 24 23 21 25 189
17 Donald Haldeman   United States 23 24 24 24 95 21 21 25 25 187
18 Manfred Geisler   East Germany 23 24 24 24 95 22 23 22 25 187
19 Armando Marques   Portugal 25 23 24 23 95 25 21 23 23 187
20 Josef Meixner   Austria 24 21 23 23 91 23 23 25 24 186
21 Ronald Carter   Great Britain 23 23 23 22 91 24 24 23 24 186
22 Sperry Marshall   Australia 23 20 23 23 89 24 25 25 23 186
23 Fernando Walls   Mexico 23 23 23 23 92 25 23 23 23 186
24 Silvano Raganini   San Marino 22 25 23 24 94 23 24 23 22 186
25 Brian Bailey   Great Britain 24 23 21 23 91 23 23 24 24 185
26 Peter Blecher   West Germany 24 24 22 22 92 24 23 23 23 185
27 David Alkon   Mexico 24 25 25 21 95 24 21 23 22 185
28 Jean-Jacques Baud   France 24 22 21 24 91 24 23 23 23 184
29 James Platz   Canada 24 24 23 25 96 25 22 19 22 184
30 Ion Dumitrescu   Romania 22 24 24 22 92 23 25 21 22 183
31 Paul Vittet   Switzerland 22 22 25 23 92 24 21 22 23 182
32 Kim Tae-seok   South Korea 22 22 21 23 88 23 24 23 23 181
33 Egon Hansen   Denmark 24 24 21 20 89 24 19 25 23 180
34 Karni Singh   India 21 23 25 22 91 20 22 24 23 180
35 Grzegorz Strouhal   Poland 22 21 25 19 87 24 23 24 21 179
36 Armando Salvietti   Bolivia 24 23 22 22 91 25 22 20 21 179
37 Vincenzo Lucchini   Switzerland 21 22 23 24 90 20 2 22 24 178
38 Dermot Kelly   Ireland 18 23 24 21 86 22 22 25 23 178
39 Michael Carr-Hartley   Kenya 21 23 21 25 90 21 21 23 23 178
40 Fettah Güney   Turkey 21 19 25 23 88 20 22 22 25 177
41 Kim Nam-gu   South Korea 23 21 23 23 90 22 23 21 21 177
42 Gerry Brady   Ireland 21 22 23 25 91 24 21 19 21 176
43 Guglielmo Giusti   San Marino 22 21 23 23 89 21 21 22 22 175
44 Randhir Singh   India 22 22 22 22 88 22 21 23 19 173
45 Paul Cerutti   Monaco 19 21 21 23 84 22 23 21 21 171
46 Túlio Miraglia   Brazil 21 21 22 22 86 22 23 21 19 171
47 Mounzer Khatib   Syria 22 21 22 24 89 19 22 19 21 170
48 Elias Salhab   Lebanon 18 21 22 21 82 24 23 22 19 170
49 Juan Jorge Giha Sr.   Peru 21 19 22 22 84 17 23 22 22 168
50 Joseph Mesmar   Syria 22 21 21 19 83 21 18 23 22 167
51 Brian Carr-Hartley   Kenya 19 20 22 20 81 20 20 23 21 165
52 Assaad Andraos   Lebanon 23 21 19 22 85 18 22 17 21 163
53 Damrong Pachonyut   Thailand 21 22 20 20 83 20 18 19 20 160
54 Ricardo Roberts   Bolivia 19 19 19 20 77 19 19 21 20 156
55 Boonkua Lourvanij   Thailand 18 19 15 20 72 20 21 15 17 145
56 Manuel Valdes   Philippines 15 19 14 19 67 13 19 18 21 138
57 Philip Serjeant   Swaziland 17 17 16 16 66 12 11 15 18 122
— Nicolas Rodríguez   Cuba DNS
Domingo Lorenxo   Dominican Republic DNS
Riad Yunes   Dominican Republic DNS
Manuel Earnshaw   Philippines DNS
Song Gi-Hyon   North Korea DNS

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Trap, Open". Olympedia. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  2. ^ Sports Reference. "Shooting at the 1972 München Summer Games: Mixed Trap". Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 11 June 2021.

External links edit

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