The men's double trap event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 10 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center.
Competition format The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 5 sets of 30 targets in trap shooting, with 10 targets being thrown to the left, 10 to the right, and 10 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 semifinal round. There, they fired one round of 15 targets, where only one shot could be taken at each target. The top two in the semifinal round advance to gold medal match, while the third and fourth-place shooters relegate to bronze medal match. The medal match is an additional round of 15 targets.
Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round RankAthleteCountry12345TotalQS-offNotes1 Andreas Löw 29 27 28 28 28 140 Q, 2 James Willett 30 24 30 29 27 140 Q, 3 Tim Kneale 28 27 29 30 25 139 Q4 Steven Scott 28 25 27 29 29 138 Q5 Marco Innocenti 28 28 30 26 24 136 Q6 Fehaid Al-Deehani 27 24 28 27 29 135 +12 Q7 Joshua Richmond 27 27 23 29 29 135 +11 8 Hu Binyuan 26 23 28 29 29 135 +7 9 Khaled Al-Kaabi 27 28 25 25 29 134 10 Enrique Brol 27 20 17 28 28 133 11 Vitaly Fokeev 27 25 27 27 27 133 12 Pan Qiang 28 28 29 24 24 133 13 Vasily Mosin 26 23 26 29 28 132 14 Walton Eller 24 27 26 26 28 131 15 Ahmad Al-Afasi 24 26 27 26 25 128 16 Antonino Barillà 25 25 25 27 23 125 17 William Chetcuti 22 25 24 26 26 125 18 Håkan Dahlby 26 24 24 25 22 125 19 Sean Nicholson 24 23 24 24 24 119 20 Hebert Brol 22 24 21 26 24 116 21 Mohamed Ramah 23 18 28 22 24 115 22 Paulo Reichardt 25 23 17 19 22 106
Semifinal RankAthleteCountryTotalShoot-offNotes1 Fehaid Al-Deehani 28 Gold Medal Match2 Marco Innocenti 27 Gold Medal Match3 Tim Kneale 26 +2 Bronze Medal Match 4 Steven Scott 26 +2 Bronze Medal Match 5 James Willett 26 +1 6 Andreas Löw 25
Final (medal matches) RankAthleteCountryTotalShoot-offNotes Fehaid Al-Deehani 26 Marco Innocenti 24 Steven Scott 30 4 Tim Kneale 28
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