Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's double trap explained

See main article: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics. The men's double trap competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 20 September. Home shooter Russell Mark set a new Olympic record in the qualification round and was close to defending his inaugural double trap title from Atlanta, but lost the gold medal shoot-off to Richard Faulds. Fehaid Al Deehani won the first Olympic medal ever for Kuwait.^[1]

Records

The existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

The qualification round consisted of 25 doubles in the A programme, 25 in the B programme, and 25 in the C programme.

Rank	Athlete	A	B	C	Total	Shoot-off	Notes
1	Russell Mark	46	50	47	143		Q OR
2	Fehaid Al Deehani	46	48	47	141		Q
3	Conny Persson	46	49	46	141		Q
4	Richard Faulds	48	48	45	141		Q
5	Roland Gerebics	47	47	46	140		Q
6	Lance Bade	45	42	49	136	2	Q
7	Waldemar Schanz	45	46	45	136	1
8	Marco Innocenti	46	43	46	135
9	Michael Diamond	44	46	45	135
10	Mashfi Al-Mutairi	45	45	44	134
10	Raimo Kauppila	46	47	41	134
12	Walton Eller	45	42	46	133
12	William Keever	43	43	47	133
14	Aleksey Alipov	45	46	40	131
14	Jean-Paul Gros	44	44	43	131
16	Jiři Gach	46	43	41	130
17	Daniele Di Spigno	41	47	41	129
17	Sergio Piñero	43	42	44	129
19	Li Bo	39	45	44	128
20	Ayman Mazhar	41	40	44	125
21	Oğuzhan Tüzün	39	42	43	124
22	Michel Daou	36	43	42	121
23	Ahmed Al Maktoum	35	41	44	120
23	Danilo Caro	34	41	45	120
25	Des Coe	40	41	37	118

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

The final repeated the C programme for the top six competitors.

Rank	Qual	Final	Total	Shoot-off
	141	46	187	3
	143	44	187	2
	141	45	186
4	141	43	184
5	140	40	180
6	136	43	179

Web site: Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Double Trap . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418030648/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/SHO/mens-double-trap.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 2 March 2020.