The following are the results of the Skeet competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics. All three medalists had a tied score of 195. A shoot off was held, in the shoot off 1970 world champion, Konrad Wirnhier of West Germany hit all 25 birds to claim the gold. Earlier in the competition co-world record holder Yury Tsuranov of the Soviet Union disagreed with a ruling on a lost bird, and walked off the field. For his actions he was penalized three birds. This brought his score down to 192, exactly three birds short for the shoot off for the gold medal.
Final The format was: 200 targets. Four rounds of 25 targets for a total of 100 targets in each day. Ties for the medals were broken with a shoot off, all other ties are broken by the best score in round 8, if still tied after that it goes to round 7 and continues until the tie is broken.
Rank Name Nationality 1 2 3 4 Day 1 5 6 7 8 Total Shoot off Konrad Wirnhier 24 25 24 25 98 23 25 25 24 195 25 Yevgeni Petrov 25 24 24 24 97 24 25 25 24 195 24 Michael Buchheim 25 25 23 24 97 25 25 23 25 195 23 4 Joe Neville 24 25 25 25 99 21 24 25 25 194 5 Roberto Castrillo 23 24 25 24 96 25 24 25 24 194 6 Klaus Reschke 24 24 23 25 95 25 24 23 25 193 7 Élie Pénot 23 24 24 25 96 25 25 23 24 193 8 Lakis Georgiou 23 25 22 23 93 25 25 24 25 192 9 Jack Johnson 23 23 24 24 94 25 25 23 25 192 10 Romano Garagnani 23 23 25 24 94 23 25 25 24 192 11 Miguel Marina 24 25 25 23 97 23 25 23 24 192 12 Ari Westergård 24 25 25 23 97 24 24 23 24 192 13 Yury Tsuranov 25 24 21 25 95 25 25 24 23 192 14 Francis Cornet 22 24 25 25 96 24 25 24 23 192 15 Lucian Cojocaru 25 21 25 23 94 24 23 25 25 191 16 Colin Sephton 23 23 24 25 95 24 23 24 25 191 17 Jorge Uauy 24 24 22 23 93 24 25 25 24 191 18 Carlo Alberto Lodi 23 23 23 24 93 25 24 25 24 191 19 Niels-Ove Mikkelsen 23 24 25 22 94 24 25 25 23 191 20 Artur Rogowski 22 23 24 25 94 21 25 25 25 190 21 Panagiotis Xanthakos 25 21 24 23 93 25 24 24 24 190 22 Walter Wrigge 23 22 25 25 95 23 25 23 24 190 23 Gleb Pintilie 24 24 23 23 94 23 25 25 23 190 24 Servilio Torres 24 23 24 24 95 24 24 24 23 190 25 Bruno De Costa 24 24 25 25 98 23 21 23 23 188 26 Firmo Roberti 22 23 24 25 94 24 25 23 22 188 27 Gerardo González 24 20 24 22 90 25 23 24 25 187 28 Özman Gıraud 23 24 23 24 94 21 24 23 25 187 29 Lars-Erik Söderberg 23 25 20 22 90 24 24 25 24 187 30 Güneş Yunus 23 22 23 22 90 24 25 24 24 187 31 Ben Pon 23 25 22 24 94 23 24 22 24 187 32 Antonio Yaqigi 22 22 24 24 92 25 24 24 22 187 33 Anton Manolov 24 23 24 23 94 24 24 23 22 187 34 Tony Rosetti 23 21 23 23 90 24 24 24 24 186 35 Eric Swinkels 22 23 25 23 93 25 21 23 24 186 36 Karni Singh 21 24 22 24 91 24 25 23 23 186 37 Roger Mangin 24 23 22 22 91 24 21 24 25 185 38 Nuria Ortíz 22 23 24 23 92 22 23 25 23 185 39 Wiesław Gawlikowski 23 23 22 22 90 23 25 24 23 185 40 Antoine Saade 21 25 20 25 91 24 25 22 23 185 41 Juan Bueno 24 23 23 20 90 24 23 23 24 184 42 Gert-Åke Bengtsson 23 23 20 23 89 24 24 21 25 183 43 Manuel González 21 22 22 23 88 24 24 22 24 182 44 Park Do-keun 21 24 23 22 90 24 23 22 23 182 45 Juan Ávalos 23 20 23 24 90 22 24 24 22 182 46 Ole Justesen 23 21 22 22 88 24 21 22 25 180 47 Andrés Amador 21 22 23 22 88 23 22 24 23 180 48 Chris Binet 23 21 23 25 92 20 23 25 20 180 49 José de Matos 21 22 24 21 88 23 24 21 23 179 50 Donald Sanderlin 19 23 23 23 88 22 25 22 21 178 51 Rafael Batista 25 23 21 20 89 21 23 19 24 176 52 William Campbell 22 21 19 22 84 23 23 21 24 175 53 Arthur McMahon 20 20 23 21 84 22 24 22 22 174 54 Maurice Tabet 21 21 21 21 84 21 22 19 25 171 55 Joseph Grech 21 23 23 20 87 24 20 19 20 170 56 Park Seong-tae 18 23 18 20 79 22 22 23 22 168 57 Melchor Yap 20 22 20 22 84 19 21 22 21 167 58 Riad Yunes 18 22 22 19 81 22 19 20 24 166 59 Carlos Asbun 16 22 22 20 80 21 19 23 19 162 60 Armando Salvietti 18 22 20 21 81 20 22 17 21 161 61 Raymundo Quitoriano 17 16 16 19 68 17 21 19 21 143 62 Domingo Lorenzo 19 14 20 17 70 17 17 18 20 142 — Philip Serjeant DNF — Ratcho Kossev DNS — Heikki Lindfors DNS — Robert Carr-Hartley DNS
References
External links Official report pg. 234