Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Mixed trap

The trap was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on 18 and 19 October 1968 at the shooting ranges in Mexico City. 55 shooters from 34 nations competed.[1] For the first time, the event was open to women as well as men (though none competed). Nations were limited to two shooters each. The event was won by Bob Braithwaite of Great Britain, the nation's first victory in the event and first medal of any color in the trap since 1908. Silver went to Thomas Garrigus of the United States. Kurt Czekalla of East Germany took bronze; it was the first medal in the event for East Germany as a separate nation, and the first medal for any German trap shooter since 1912.

Mixed trap
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Gold medalist Bob Braithwaite
VenueVicente Suárez Shooting Range
Dates18–19 October
Competitors55 from 34 nations
Winning score198 =OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bob Braithwaite  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Thomas Garrigus  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kurt Czekalla  East Germany
← 1964 (men's)
1972 →

Background

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This was the 10th 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]

Eight of the top 10 shooters from the 1964 Games returned: gold medalist Ennio Mattarelli of Italy, silver medalist Pāvels Seničevs of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Galliano Rossini of Italy, fifth-place finisher Ion Dumitrescu of Romania, sixth-place finisher Juan Enrique Lira of Chile, seventh-place finisher Bob Braithwaite of Great Britain, ninth-place finisher Josef Meixner of Austria, and tenth-place finisher Mohamed Mehrez of Egypt. Rossini was competing for the fifth time in the event, with a 1956 gold medal and a 1960 silver medal under his belt. Two of the three World Champions since the last Games competed: Lira (1965) and Guy Rénard of Belgium (1967); Seničevs had taken bronze in 1966.[4]

The Browning shotgun was the most popular armament for the event.[4]

Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ireland, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, and Uruguay each made their debut in the event; East and West Germany competed separately for the first time. Great Britain made its 10th appearance, the only nation to have competed at each edition of the event to that point.

Competition format

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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. Shoot-offs of 25 targets each were shot as necessary to resolve ties for medals.[4]

Records

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

World record
Olympic record   Ennio Mattarelli (ITA) 198 Tokyo, Japan 15–17 October 1964

Bob Braithwaite of Great Britain tied the Olympic record at 198.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Friday, 18 October 1968 8:30 Course 1
Saturday, 19 October 1968 8:30 Course 2

Results

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Braithwaite started his first series at 11 of 13, but then finished that series and each of the next seven perfectly (hitting 187 consecutive targets).[4][5]

A three-way tie for second place at 196 points required a shoot-off. Defending silver medalist Seničevs hit 22 on the shoot-off, while Garrigus and Czekalla both were perfect. The latter two advanced to a second shoot-off. Czekalla missed the first target, enough to put Garrigus on top for silver when the American was perfect again; Czekalla finished the second shoot-off at 23 and a bronze medal.

Rank Shooter Nation Score Notes
  Bob Braithwaite   Great Britain 198 =OR
  Thomas Garrigus   United States 196 Shoot-off 1: 25
Shoot-off 2: 25
  Kurt Czekalla   East Germany 196 Shoot-off 1: 25
Shoot-off 2: 23
4 Pāvels Seničevs   Soviet Union 196 Shoot-off 1: 22
5 Pierre Candelo   France 195
6 Adam Smelczyński   Poland 195
7 Aleksandr Alipov   Soviet Union 195
8 John Primrose   Canada 194
9 Jaime Bladas   Spain 194
10 Karni Singh   India 194
11 Ion Dumitrescu   Romania 193
12 Michel Carrega   France 193
13 Galliano Rossini   Italy 193
14 José Cusí   Spain 192
15 Juan Enrique Lira   Chile 192
16 Edward Shaske   Canada 192
17 Randhir Singh   India 192
18 Elias Salhab   Lebanon 191
19 Mohamed Mehrez   Egypt 191
20 Pedro Estay   Chile 191
21 Gheorghe Florescu   Romania 191
22 Rodolfo Guarnieri   Argentina 190
23 Rudolf Hager   East Germany 190
24 Juan Ángel Martini Jr.   Argentina 190
25 Georgios Pangalos   Greece 190
26 Ray Stafford   United States 189
27 Ennio Mattarelli   Italy 189
28 Sten Karlsson   Sweden 189
29 Werner Bühse   West Germany 189
30 Metin Salihoğlu   Turkey 188
31 George Silvernail   Puerto Rico 188
30 Ivo Orlandi   Venezuela 187
33 Miguel Barrenechea   Mexico 187
34 Eric Grantham   Great Britain 187
35 Markos Tzoumaras   Greece 187
36 Guy Rénard   Belgium 187
37 Josef Meixner   Austria 187
38 Erich Gehmann   West Germany 187
39 Kjell Sørensen   Norway 185
40 Pavitr Kachasanee   Thailand 183
41 Gustavo Zepeda   Mexico 181
42 Leo Franciosi   San Marino 181
43 Lin Ho-ming   Taiwan 181
44 Badir Shoukri   Egypt 177
45 Salvatore Pelliccioni   San Marino 177
46 Cheng Sung-gun   Taiwan 175
47 Dermot Kelly   Ireland 175
48 Walter Perón   Peru 175
49 Dipya Mongkollugsana   Thailand 175
50 Arturo Porro   Uruguay 171
51 Carlos Asbun   Bolivia 163
52 Ricardo Roberts   Bolivia 161
53 Ángel Marchand   Puerto Rico 156
54 Roberto Soundy   El Salvador 125
55 Domingo Lorenzo   Dominican Republic 124

References

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  1. ^ "Shooting at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Mixed Trap". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d "Trap, Open". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  5. ^ Official Report, p. 427.