The men's double trap event at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 12 at the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field. Walton Eller, the gold medal winner in this event, broke two Olympic records for both the qualification and final rounds.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 sets of 50 shots in trap shooting. Shots were paired, with two targets being launched at a time.

The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired one additional round of 50. The total score from all 200 shots was used to determine final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one pair at a time until there is no longer a tie.

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

During the competition, Walton Eller broke both Olympic records by a one-hit margin.

Qualification round The qualification round was held between 9:00 and 13:00 China Standard Time (UTC+8). It consisted of three programs of 25 doubles each. In the A and B programs, the two targets were simultaneously thrown with a difference of five degrees (one straight and one to the side); in the C program, this was increased to ten degrees (one to each side).

RankAthleteCountryABCTotalShoot-offNotes 1 Walton Eller 48 49 48 145 Q OR 2 Francesco D'Aniello 48 46 47 141 Q 3 Jeffrey Holguin 45 48 47 140 Q 4 Hu Binyuan 48 42 48 138 Q 5 Richard Faulds 45 46 46 137 Q 6 Russell Mark 45 48 43 6 Q 7 Ahmed Al Maktoum 46 45 45 5 8 William Chetcuti 47 45 44 3 9 Roland Gerebics 44 47 45 1 10 Daniele Di Spigno 44 46 45 135 11 Håkan Dahlby 45 45 45 135 12 Wang Nan 42 46 46 134 13 Steven Scott 43 45 46 134 14 Vasily Mosin 41 47 43 131 15 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 43 45 43 131 16 Vitaly Fokeev 45 44 41 130 17 Lucas Rafael Bennazar Ortiz 45 39 39 123 18 Graeme Ede 38 40 35 113 19 Giuseppe Di Salvatore 38 34 37 109

OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final The final was held at 15:00 China Standard Time (UTC+8). It repeated the C program for the top 6 shooters, and added the results to those of the qualification round.

RankAthleteQualFinalTotalNotes 145 45 190 OR 141 46 187 138 46 184 4 140 42 182 5 136 45 181 6 137 43 180

OR Olympic record

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