Shooting at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's trap explained

Event:Men's trap
Games:1964 Summer
Venue:Tokorozawa Clay Pigeon Shooting Range, Tokorozawa, Saitama
Date:15–17 October 1964
Competitors:51
Nations:28
Win Label:Winning score
Win Value:198
Goldnoc:ITA
Silvernoc:URS
Bronzenoc:USA
Next:1968

The men's trap was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held from 15 to 17 October 1964 at the Tokorozawa Clay Pigeon Shooting Range in Tokorozawa, Saitama. 51 shooters from 28 nations competed. Each nation could send up to two shooters. The event was won by Ennio Mattarelli of Italy, the nation's second victory in three Games in the event. Pāvels Seničevs of the Soviet Union took silver. William Morris earned the United States' first medal in the trap since 1924 with his bronze. Seničevs and Morris defeated Galliano Rossini of Italy in a three-way shoot-off for second; Rossini (who had won gold in the event in 1956 and silver in 1960) thus just missed earning a third medal in the trap. Defending champion Ion Dumitrescu of Romania finished fifth.

Background

This was the ninth 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. As with most shooting events, it was nominally open to women from 1968 to 1980; the trap remained open to women through 1992. Very few women participated these years. The event returned to being men-only for 1996, though the new double trap had separate events for men and women that year. In 2000, a separate women's event was added and it has been contested at every Games since. There was also a men's team trap event held four times from 1908 to 1924.[1] [2]

Eight of the top 11 (including a tie for 10th) shooters from the 1960 Games returned, including all three medalists: gold medalist Ion Dumitrescu of Romania, silver medalist Galliano Rossini of Italy, bronze medalist Sergei Kalinin of the Soviet Union, sixth-place finisher Joe Wheater of Great Britain, seventh-place finisher Adam Smelczyński of Poland, eighth-place finishers Claude Foussier of France and Karni Singh of India, and tenth-place finisher Laszlo Szapáry of Austria. Rossini was also a former champion (gold in 1956) and was competing in the event for the fourth time. Smelczyński had been the silver medalist to Rossini in 1956. In the two World Championships since 1960, Dumitrescu had taken a bronze (1961) and Singh had taken silver (1962). The 1961 World Champion, Ennio Mattarelli, joined Rossini for a formidable Italian pair.[3]

Israel, Pakistan, and Rhodesia each made their debut in the event. Great Britain made its ninth appearance, the only nation to have competed at each edition of the event to that point.

Competition format

The competition used the 200-target format introduced with the return of trap to the Olympics in 1952. The 1964 event dropped the two-round competition that had been used in 1960; only a single round of shooting was done, with all shooters facing 200 targets. Shooting was done in 8 series of 25 targets.[4] [3]

Records

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

Ennio Mattarelli of Italy set a new Olympic record at 198.

Results

Rank Shooter Nation Score Notes
Ennio Mattarelli198
Pāvels Seničevs194Shoot-off: 25
William Morris194Shoot-off: 24
4Galliano Rossini194Shoot-off: 23
5Ion Dumitrescu193
6Juan Enrique Lira193
7Bob Braithwaite192
8Joachim Marscheider191
9Josef Meixner190
10Mohamed Mehrez190
11Joe Wheater190
12Floyd Nattrass190
13Juan Ángel Martini, Sr.189
14Heinz Rehder189
15Mitsuo Sanami189
16Lennart Ahlin189
17Gilberto Navarro188
18Armando Marques188
19Georgios Pangalos187
20Rune Flodman187
21Frank Little187
22Sergei Kalinin187
23An Jeong-geun186
24Claude Foussier186
25Jaime Bladas186
26Karni Singh186
27Johannes Lamprecht186
28Guy de Valle Flor186
29Michel Prévost184
30Toshiyasu Ishige184
31José Luis Alonso Berbegal184
32Adam Smelczyński183
33Gheorghe Enache182
34Eduard de Atzel182
35Park Sam-gyu181
36Goh Tai Yong178
37Enrique Dibos178
38Ahmed Kadry Genena178
39Harry Willsie177
40Joseph Aoun176
41Lin Ho-ming175
42Jack Rickards174
43Laszlo Szapáry173
44José Passera173
45Fotios Isaakidis172
46Jaime Loyola171
47Maksim Kahan170
48Lin Wen-chu170
49Devi Singh168
50Yap Pow Thong140
51Moihuddin Khawja91
Miguel Torres
Antonios Saad

Notes and References

  1. https://www.olympedia.org/sports/SHO
  2. Web site: Historical Results. International Shooting Sport Federation. issf-sports.org. 2021-06-11.
  3. Web site: Trap, Men . Olympedia . 14 June 2021.
  4. Official Report, p. 615.