Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Mixed trap explained

Event:	Trap
Games:	1988 Summer
Venue:	Taereung International Shooting Range
Date:	20 September 1988
Competitors:	49
Nations:	28
Goldnoc:	URS
Silvernoc:	TCH
Bronzenoc:	BEL
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	222
Next:	1992

Trap was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. It was held on 20 September 1988 at the Taereung International Shooting Range. There were 49 competitors from 28 nations, with each nation having up to four shooters (up from two per nation in prior editions). The event was decided by a shoot-off between Dmitry Monakov of the Soviet Union and Miloslav Bednařík of Czechoslovakia, with Monakov emerging as the winner with 8–7.^[1] Frans Peeters of Belgium took bronze after a three-way shoot-off. Monakov's victory was the first gold medal for the Soviet Union in the trap; Czechoslovakia and Belgium each received their first medal in the event as well. Italy's four-Games medal streak ended.

Background

This was the 15th 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.^{[2] [3]}

Six of the top 10 shooters from the 1984 Games, including all three medalists, returned: two-time gold medalist Luciano Giovannetti of Italy, silver medalist Francisco Boza of Peru, bronze medalist Daniel Carlisle of the United States, fourth-place finisher Timo Nieminen of Finland, eighth-place finisher Johnny Påhlsson of Sweden, and ninth-place finisher Sherif Saleh of Egypt. The favorites in the event were the last two World Champions, Miloslav Bednařík of Czechoslovakia (1985 and 1986) and Dmitry Monakov of the Soviet Union (1987).^[4]

The People's Republic of China and Saudi Arabia each made their debut in the event. Great Britain made its 14th appearance, most among nations, having missed only the 1980 Moscow Games.

Competition format

For the first time since 1956, the trap competition consisted of multiple rounds. The total for finalists also increased, from 200 to 225.

The qualifying round consisted of six series of 25 shots (150 total). The top 24 shooters advanced to the semifinal. The semifinal featured an additional two series of 25 shots (50 total for the semifinal), with the score added to the qualifying round score for a 200-target semifinal total. The top 6 shooters at that point moved on to the final. One additional series of 25 targets was used for the final, with a total score out of 225. Shoot-offs were used as necessary to break ties for medals.^[4]

Records

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

Dmitry Monakov and Miloslav Bednařík set the initial 225-target Olympic record at 222.

Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time adjusted for daylight savings (UTC+10)

Results

Qualifying round

Rank	Shooter	Nation	Score	Notes
1	Dmitry Monakov		149
2	Miloslav Bednařík		148
3	Bean van Limbeek		148
4	Frans Peeters		147
5	Francisco Boza		147
6	Kazumi Watanabe		147
7	Arimatti Nummela		147
8	Daniel Carlisle		147
9	Ourmas Saaliste		146
10	Albano Pera		145
11	Eladio Vallduvi		145
12	John Maxwell		145
13	Rafael Axpe		145
14	Christophe Guelpa		144
15	Russell Mark		144
16	Daniele Cioni		144
17	Brian Ballard		144
18	Jose Bladas		144
19	Park Chul-sung		144
20	John Primrose		143
21	Jörg Damme		143
22	Luciano Giovannetti		143
23	George Haas III		143
24	João Rebelo		143
25	Kim Kon-il		142
	Aleksandr Lavrinenko		142
	Johnny Påhlsson		142
	Ian Peel		142
	Sherif Saleh		142
30	Byun Kyung-soo		141
	Peter Aagaard Jensen		141
	Susan Nattrass		141
33	Gian Nicola Berti		140
	George Leary		140
	Gemma Usieto		140
	Alfredo Valentini		140
37	Hélder Cavaco		139
	Domingo Diaz		139
39	Alfredo Cuentas		138
40	Rodrigo Bastos		137
	Gao E		137
42	Luis Garrido		136
43	Zoltán Bodó		135
	Timo Nieminen		135
	Zhang Bing		135
46	Pia Lucia Baldisserri		134
47	Carolyn Koch		130
48	Matar Al Harthi		128
49	Rodney Tudor-Cole		125

Semifinal

Rank	Shooter	Nation	Qual !	1	2	Semifinal	Total	Notes
1			149	23	25	48	197
2			148	25	24	49	197
3			147	23	25	48	195
4			147	?	?	48	195
5			147	25	23	48	195
6			148	24	23	47	195
7			146	24	24	48	194
8			147	23	24	47	194
9			147	24	23	47	194
10			145	24	24	48	193
11			145	25	23	48	193
12			144	24	24	48	192
			143	25	24	49	192
			145	25	22	47	192
15			143	24	24	48	191
			144	24	23	47	191
			144	23	24	47	191
18			144	23	23	46	190
			143	24	23	47	190
			143	24	23	47	190
			143	24	23	47	190
22			144	22	23	45	189
			145	22	22	44	189
24			144	24	20	44	188

Final

Rank	Shooter	Nation	Qual+SF !	Final	Total	Bronze shoot-off	Gold shoot-off	Notes
			197	25	222	rowspan=2	8
			197	25	222	7
			195	24	219	16	rowspan=3
4			195	24	219	15
5			195	24	219	7
6			195	21	216

Sources

• Book: XXIVth Olympiad Seoul 1988 Official Report – Volume 2 Part 2 . PDF . 28 September 2008.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Shooting at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Mixed Trap . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418124531/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1988/SHO/mixed-trap.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 21 February 2020.
2. https://www.olympedia.org/sports/SHO
3. Web site: Historical Results. International Shooting Sport Federation. issf-sports.org. 2021-06-11.
4. Web site: Trap, Open . Olympedia . 17 June 2021.