Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's trap

The men's trap competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 14 and 15 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece. There were 35 competitors from 26 nations, with each nation having up to two shooters.[1]

Men's trap
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Gold medalist Alexey Alipov (2010)
VenueMarkópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
DatesAugust 14, 2004
August 15, 2004
Competitors35 from 26 nations
Winning score149 =OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Alexey Alipov  Russia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Giovanni Pellielo  Italy
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Adam Vella  Australia
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Russia's Alexey Alipov attained an almost perfect score of 149 to tie the Olympic record for the gold medal in this event. The silver medal was awarded to Italy's Giovanni Pellielo with 146 points, while Australia's Adam Vella claimed the bronze with 145.[2][3] Vella's teammate and two-time defending Olympic champion Michael Diamond missed a chance for his third Olympic gold in the final round, after firing only 119 birds to earn the eighth position in the prelims.[4] Alipov's victory was Russia's first gold medal in the event. Pellielo, who had taken bronze in 2000, was the fourth man to earn multiple medals in the trap.

Background

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This was the 19th 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 1992.[5]

Five of the 6 finalists from the 2000 Games returned: two-time gold medalist Michael Diamond of Australia, silver medalist Ian Peel of Great Britain, bronze medalist Giovanni Pellielo of Italy, fourth-place finisher Khaled Al-Mudhaf of Kuwait, and fifth-place finisher Marco Venturini of Italy. (The sixth finalist from Sydney, David Kostelecký of the Czech Republic, did not compete in Athens but returned to Beijing 2008 and won gold there.) The three World Champions since the 2000 Games were Diamond (2001, defending his 1999 title; he also took silver in 2002), Al-Mudhaf (2002), and Karsten Bindrich of Germany. Pellielo had made the podium twice in those three competitions (bronze in 2002 and silver in 2003). Other World medalists competing in Athens were Bret Erickson of the United States (silver 2001) and Alexey Alipov of Russia (bronze 2003). Diamond was favoured to win an unprecedented third gold in the event.[1]

Fiji made its debut in the event. Great Britain made its 18th appearance, most among nations, having missed only the 1980 Moscow Games.

Qualification

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Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to two shooters if the NOC earned enough quota sports or had enough crossover-qualified shooters. To compete, a shooter needed a quota spot and to achieve a Minimum Qualification Score (MQS). Once a shooter was using a quota spot in any shooting event, they could enter any other shooting event for which they had achieved the MQS as well (a crossover qualification). There were 32 quota spots available for the trap event: 1 at the 2001 World Championship, 4 at the 2002 World Cup events, 2 at the 2002 World Championship, 4 at the 2003 World Cup events, 5 at the 2003 European Championships, 2 at the 2003 Pan American Games, 1 at the 2003 World Championship, 3 at the 2004 Asian Championships, 2003 Oceania Championships, and 2004 Asian Championships, and various invitational and additional places. In 2004, three crossover qualifications were used in the trap, all from men qualified in the double trap.

Competition format

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The competition used the two-round 125+25 format introduced in 1996.[1]

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 5 sets of 25 targets in trap shooting, with 10 targets being thrown to the left, 10 to the right, and 5 straight-away in each set. The shooters could take two shots at each target.

The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25 targets. The total score from all 150 targets was used to determine final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.

Records

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

Qualifying round
World record   Lance Bade (USA) 125 Barcelona, Spain 23 July 1998
Olympic record   Michael Diamond (AUS) 124 Atlanta, United States 21 July 1996
Final round
World record   Marcello Tittarelli (ITA) 150 Suhl, Germany 11 June 1996
Olympic record   Michael Diamond (AUS) 149 Atlanta, United States 21 July 1996

Alexey Alipov matched the Olympic records for both the 125-target qualifying round (124) and the 150-target total (149).

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Saturday, 14 August 2004 Qualifying: Course 1
Sunday, 15 August 2004 13:30 Qualifying: Course 2
Final

Results

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Qualifying round

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Rank Shooter Nation 1 2 3 Day 1 4 5 Total Notes
1 Alexey Alipov   Russia 25 25 24 74 25 25 124 Q, =OR
2 Lance Bade   United States 25 25 23 73 25 24 122 Q
3 Giovanni Pellielo   Italy 24 25 25 74 24 24 122 Q
4 Khaled Al-Mudhaf   Kuwait 25 24 23 72 24 25 121 Q
5 Adam Vella   Australia 24 25 23 72 25 24 121 Q
6 Ahmed Al-Maktoum   United Arab Emirates 25 25 23 73 25 23 121 Q
7 Olaf Kirchstein   Germany 25 23 23 71 23 25 119
8 Michael Diamond   Australia 25 22 25 72 24 23 119
9 Francesco Amici   San Marino 25 24 23 72 24 23 119
Francisco Boza   Peru 25 25 23 73 24 22 119
Derek Burnett   Ireland 25 24 23 72 24 23 119
Stéphane Clamens   France 25 24 24 73 24 22 119
13 Bret Erickson   United States 24 25 24 73 22 23 118
14 Nidal Asmar   Lebanon 23 23 24 70 24 23 117
Rodrigo Bastos   Brazil 24 23 23 70 23 24 117
Karsten Bindrich   Germany 23 23 23 69 24 24 117
Naser Meqlad   Kuwait 24 23 25 72 23 22 117
Petri Nummela   Finland 25 24 24 73 25 19 117
19 Ian Peel   Great Britain 23 24 23 70 23 23 116
Manavjit Singh Sandhu   India 22 25 24 71 21 24 116
21 Custódio Ezequiel   Portugal 21 24 24 69 24 22 115
Lee Wung Yew   Singapore 24 25 23 72 21 22 115
Mansher Singh   India 25 23 21 69 23 23 115
Oğuzhan Tüzün   Turkey 22 24 23 69 23 23 115
25 Maxim Kosarev   Russia 24 24 23 71 19 23 113
Edward Ling   Great Britain 24 21 24 69 22 22 113
27 Lucas Rafael Bennazar Ortiz   Puerto Rico 21 21 24 66 24 22 112
Yves Tronc   France 22 24 23 69 25 18 112
Marco Venturini   Italy 22 23 22 67 23 22 112
30 Glenn Kable   Fiji 21 22 25 68 23 20 111
31 Nikolaos Antoniadis   Greece 23 23 22 68 21 21 110
32 Jethro Dionisio   Philippines 24 20 23 67 24 18 109
33 Danilo Caro   Colombia 24 24 21 69 21 18 108
34 Bernard Yeoh Cheng Han   Malaysia 22 22 21 65 20 22 107
35 Francesc Repiso Romero   Andorra 24 23 22 69 23 14 106

Final

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Rank Shooter Nation Qual Final Total Notes
  Alexey Alipov   Russia 124 25 149 =OR
  Giovanni Pellielo   Italy 122 24 146
  Adam Vella   Australia 121 24 145
4 Ahmed Al Maktoum   United Arab Emirates 121 23 144
5 Lance Bade   United States 122 21 143
6 Khaled Al-Mudhaf   Kuwait 121 20 141

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Trap, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  2. ^ Kirschbaum, Erik (15 August 2004). "Alipov wins men's trap gold". Rediff.com. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Alipov out of trap first to claim gold". Eurosport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Vella claims bronze as Alipov wins Olympic trap gold". ABC News Australia. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
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