Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed trap explained

Event:	Trap
Games:	1972 Summer
Dates:	27–29 August 1972
Competitors:	57
Nations:	34
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silvernoc:	FRA
Bronzenoc:	ITA
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	199
Next:	1976

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. 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.^[1] 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.

Background

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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

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.^[3]

Records

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

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

Results

Rank	Shooter	Nation	1	2	3	4	Course 1	5	6	7	8	Total	Notes
			25	25	25	25	100	24	25	25	25	199
			24	24	25	25	98	25	25	25	25	198
			24	24	25	25	98	25	25	23	24	195
4			25	25	24	21	95	24	24	25	25	193
5			23	25	24	25	97	23	25	23	25	193
6			24	25	22	25	96	25	24	22	25	192
7			25	23	22	24	94	24	25	25	24	192
8			22	25	24	22	93	25	24	24	25	191
9			25	25	23	23	96	24	22	24	25	191
10			23	24	23	24	94	25	24	24	24	191
11			24	23	24	20	91	25	25	25	24	190
12			23	24	22	25	94	25	24	23	24	190
13			25	21	25	25	96	23	24	23	24	190
14			23	23	25	24	95	24	24	24	23	190
15			25	25	24	23	97	24	22	25	22	190
16			24	23	25	24	96	24	23	21	25	189
17			23	24	24	24	95	21	21	25	25	187
18			23	24	24	24	95	22	23	22	25	187
19			25	23	24	23	95	25	21	23	23	187
20			24	21	23	23	91	23	23	25	24	186
21			23	23	23	22	91	24	24	23	24	186
22			23	20	23	23	89	24	25	25	23	186
23			23	23	23	23	92	25	23	23	23	186
24			22	25	23	24	94	23	24	23	22	186
25			24	23	21	23	91	23	23	24	24	185
26			24	24	22	22	92	24	23	23	23	185
27			24	25	25	21	95	24	21	23	22	185
28			24	22	21	24	91	24	23	23	23	184
29			24	24	23	25	96	25	22	19	22	184
30			22	24	24	22	92	23	25	21	22	183
31			22	22	25	23	92	24	21	22	23	182
32			22	22	21	23	88	23	24	23	23	181
33			24	24	21	20	89	24	19	25	23	180
34			21	23	25	22	91	20	22	24	23	180
35			22	21	25	19	87	24	23	24	21	179
36			24	23	22	22	91	25	22	20	21	179
37			21	22	23	24	90	20	2	22	24	178
38			18	23	24	21	86	22	22	25	23	178
39			21	23	21	25	90	21	21	23	23	178
40			21	19	25	23	88	20	22	22	25	177
41			23	21	23	23	90	22	23	21	21	177
42			21	22	23	25	91	24	21	19	21	176
43			22	21	23	23	89	21	21	22	22	175
44			22	22	22	22	88	22	21	23	19	173
45			19	21	21	23	84	22	23	21	21	171
46			21	21	22	22	86	22	23	21	19	171
47			22	21	22	24	89	19	22	19	21	170
48			18	21	22	21	82	24	23	22	19	170
49			21	19	22	22	84	17	23	22	22	168
50			22	21	21	19	83	21	18	23	22	167
51			19	20	22	20	81	20	20	23	21	165
52			23	21	19	22	85	18	22	17	21	163
53			21	22	20	20	83	20	18	19	20	160
54			19	19	19	20	77	19	19	21	20	156
55			18	19	15	20	72	20	21	15	17	145
56			15	19	14	19	67	13	19	18	21	138
57			17	17	16	16	66	12	11	15	18	122
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External links

Official report pgs. 233 - 234

Notes and References

Web site: Shooting at the 1972 München Summer Games: Mixed Trap. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417233258/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1972/SHO/mixed-trap.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 6 January 2012. Sports Reference.
Web site: Historical Results. International Shooting Sport Federation. issf-sports.org. 2021-06-11.
Web site: Trap, Open . Olympedia . 16 June 2021.