Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Mixed trap

Trap was one of the thirteen shooting events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. It was the last Olympic trap competition open to both men and women. It was held from 31 July to 2 August 1992 at the Mollet del Vallès.[1] There were 54 competitors from 36 nations, with each nation having up to 3 shooters.[1] The competition consisted of a qualification round of 150 targets, a semifinal of 50 targets for the top 24 competitors, and a final of 25 targets for the top six. Petr Hrdlička and Kazumi Watanabe both hit 219 of the 225 targets, with Hrdlička winning the gold medal shoot-off. One hit behind, another shoot-off determined the bronze medalist, with Marco Venturini defeating Jörg Damme.[2][3] Hrdlička's victory was the first gold medal for Czechoslovakia in the trap, shortly after the nation won its first medal in the event (silver in 1988). Watanabe's silver was Japan's first medal in the trap. Venturini put Italy back on the podium after a one-Games absence in 1988 broke a four-Games medal streak in the event.

Trap
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Gold medalist Petr Hrdlička (2012)
VenueMollet del Vallès
Dates31 July – 2 August
Competitors54 from 36 nations
Winning score219
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Petr Hrdlička  Czechoslovakia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kazumi Watanabe  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Marco Venturini  Italy
← 1988
1996 →

Background

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This was the 16th 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.[4][5]

Three of the 6 finalists from the 1988 Games returned: bronze medalist Frans Peeters of Belgium, fourth-place finisher Francisco Boza of Peru, and sixth-place finisher Kazumi Watanabe of Japan. Favourites in the event included Marco Venturini of Italy (World Champion in 1989 and 1991) and Jörg Damme of Germany (World Champion in 1990). Other World Championship medalists competing were Daniele Cioni of Italy (silver in 1990) and Michael Diamond of Australia (silver in 1991).[1]

Croatia, Estonia, Kuwait, and the Netherlands Antilles each made their debut in the event; twelve former Soviet republics competed together as the Unified Team. Great Britain made its 15th appearance, most among nations, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games.

Competition format

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The competition used the three-round, 225-target total format introduced in 1988. The qualification 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 qualification 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.[1]

Records

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

World record
Olympic record   Dmitry Monakov (URS)
  Miloslav Bednařík (TCH)
222 Seoul, South Korea 20 September 1988

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

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After the 1988 Games used a one-day format, the 1992 competition returned to a three-day event.

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date Time Round
Friday, 31 July 1992
Saturday, 1 August 1992
9:00 Qualifying round
Sunday, 2 August 1992 9:00 Semifinal
Final

Results

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Qualifying round

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Rank Shooter Nation Score Notes
1 Kazumi Watanabe   Japan 148 Q
2 Jörg Damme   Germany 148 Q
3 Jay Waldron   United States 147 Q
4 Pavel Kubec   Czechoslovakia 147 Q
5 Michael Diamond   Australia 147 Q
6 Manuel Silva   Portugal 146 Q
7 Zhang Bing   China 146 Q
8 Marco Venturini   Italy 146 Q
9 Petr Hrdlička   Czechoslovakia 146 Q
10 João Rebelo   Portugal 145 Q
11 Giovanni Pellielo   Italy 145 Q
12 Jean-Paul Gros   France 145 Q
13 Bret Erickson   United States 145 Q
14 Antonio Palminha   Portugal 145 Q
15 Frans Peeters   Belgium 144 Q
16 Aleksandr Lavrinenko   Unified Team 144 Q
17 José Bladas Torras   Spain 144 Q
18 Russell Mark   Australia 144 Q
19 George Leary   Canada 143 Q
20 Daniele Cioni   Italy 143 Q
21 Muriel Bernard   France 143 Q
22 Aleksandr Assanov   Unified Team 143 Q
23 Susan Nattrass   Canada 142 Q
24 Francesco Amici   San Marino 142 Q
25 Zoltan Bodo   Hungary 141
Francisco Boza   Peru 141
Kevin Gill   Great Britain 141
Alp Kizilsu   Turkey 141
29 Fehaid Al Deehani   Kuwait 140
Joan Besoli   Andorra 140
James Graves   United States 140
Michel Think   Luxembourg 140
33 Rafael Axpe Elejalde   Spain 139
Ivan Derevsky   Unified Team 139
Demetris Lordos   Cyprus 139
John Primrose   Canada 139
Sherif Saleh   Egypt 139
Željko Vadić   Croatia 139
39 Thomas Knutsson   Sweden 137
Horace Micallef   Malta 137
István Putz   Hungary 137
Urmas Saaliste   Estonia 137
Zhang Yongjie   China 137
44 Ari Nummela   Finland 136
Gema Usieto Blázquez   Spain 136
46 Xavier Bouvier   Switzerland 135
Kim Kun-il   South Korea 135
48 Chng Seng Mok   Singapore 134
49 Jaime Recio   Philippines 133
50 Jesús Tirado   Puerto Rico 132
51 César Ortíz   Mexico 130
52 Corné Bornman   South Africa 127
Tarek Sabet   Egypt 127
54 Michel Daou   Netherlands Antilles 118

Semifinal

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Rank Shooter Nation Qual Semifinal Total Notes
1 Pavel Kubec   Czechoslovakia 147 49 196 Q
2 Petr Hrdlička   Czechoslovakia 146 49 195 Q
3 Kazumi Watanabe   Japan 148 47 195 Q
4 Marco Venturini   Italy 146 49 195 Q
5 Jay Waldron   United States 147 48 195 Q
6 Jörg Damme   Germany 148 47 195 Q
7 José Bladas Torras   Spain 144 50 194
8 Zhang Bing   China 146 48 194
9 Russell Mark   Australia 144 49 193
10 Giovanni Pellielo   Italy 145 48 193
11 Michael Diamond   Australia 147 46 193
11 Antonio Palminha   Portugal 145 48 193
11 Manuel Silva   Portugal 146 47 193
14 Daniele Cioni   Italy 143 49 192
14 Frans Peeters   Belgium 144 48 192
16 Bret Erickson   United States 145 46 191
16 Jean-Paul Gros   France 145 46 191
16 Aleksandr Lavrinenko   Unified Team 144 47 191
16 George Leary   Canada 143 48 191
16 João Rebelo   Portugal 145 46 191
21 Francesco Amici   San Marino 142 46 188
21 Aleksandr Assanov   Unified Team 143 45 188
21 Muriel Bernard   France 143 45 188
21 Susan Nattrass   Canada 142 46 188

Final

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Rank Shooter Nation Qual+SF Final Total Bronze
shoot-off
Gold
shoot-off
  Petr Hrdlička   Czechoslovakia 195 24 219 1
  Kazumi Watanabe   Japan 195 24 219 0
  Marco Venturini   Italy 195 23 218 9
4 Jörg Damme   Germany 195 23 218 8
5 Pavel Kubec   Czechoslovakia 196 22 218
6 Jay Waldron   United States 195 22 217

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Trap, Open". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Barcelona 1992 Shooting - Olympic Results by Discipline".
  3. ^ "Shooting at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Mixed Trap". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  4. ^ "Olympedia – Shooting".
  5. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 11 June 2021.

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