Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's trap

The men's trap was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme. It was the eighth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 5 to 9 September 1960 at the shooting ranges in Rome. 66 shooters from 38 nations competed. Each nation could send up to two shooters. The event was won by Ion Dumitrescu of Romania, the nation's first medal in the men's trap. The defending champion, Galliano Rossini of Italy, took silver this time to become the first person to earn multiple medals in the trap competition. Soviet shooter Sergei Kalinin received bronze.

Background

This was the eighth 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.

Three of the top 10 shooters from the 1956 Games returned: gold medalist Galliano Rossini of Italy, silver medalist Adam Smelczyński of Poland, and fifth-place finisher Yury Nikandrov of the Soviet Union. Since winning the Olympic gold in 1956, Rossini had reached the podium at both of the intervening World Championships: silver in 1958 and bronze in 1959. His teammate in Rome, Edoardo Casciano, had also taken medals at both Worlds (bronze in 1958, silver in 1959). The reigning World Champion, Hussam El-Badrawi of Egypt (now competing for the United Arab Republic) was also competing in 1960.

Chile, the Republic of China, India, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Peru, Portugal, San Marino, South Africa, South Korea, the United Arab Republic, and Zimbabwe each made their debut in the event; East and West Germany competed together as the United Team of Germany for the first time. Great Britain made its eighth appearance, the only nation to have competed at each edition of the event to that point.

Competition format

The competition used the 200-target format introduced with the return of trap to the Olympics in 1952. The 1960 event, with a much larger field than in 1952 and 1956, added a 100-target preliminary round. The top 36 shooters advanced from the 100-target preliminary round to shoot the 200-target final round. The qualification round was shot in 2 series of 50 shots; the final round was shot in 8 series of 25 shots. Scores were reset between rounds (only the final round counted for those qualifying).Official Report, p. 959.

Records

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

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

Schedule

Date Time Round Monday, 5 September 1960Tuesday, 6 September 1960 9:00 Qualification round Thursday, 8 September 1960Friday, 9 September 1960 9:00 Final round

Results

Andersson and Nikandrov had the best scores of the qualifying round, hitting 97 of 100 targets. The cut-off for the final round turned out to be 85 hits. Scores of those shooters not advancing are not known.

The Soviets, Kalinin and Nikandrov, hit all 25 targets in the first series of the final. Kalinin kept up the pace, perfect in the 2nd and 4th series as well on his way to a 99 of 100 score to lead the first half. Rossini, the defending champion, was close behind at 98. The second half of the final did not go as well for the leaders, with Rossini hitting only 93 (191 total) and Kalinin 91 (190 total). Those scores were enough to keep them on the podium, however, though not enough to win: Dumitrescu's 98 in the second half put him over the top at 192 total.

Rank Shooter Nation Qualification Final Ion Dumitrescu 92 192 Galliano Rossini 89 191 Sergei Kalinin 89 190 4 James Clark 90 188 5 Hans Aasnæs 87 185 Joe Wheater 93 185 7 Adam Smelczyński 88 184 8 Claude Foussier 90 183 Karni Singh 89 183 10 Elias Salhab 89 182 Laszlo Szapáry 89 182 12 Rune Andersson 97 181 Hussam El-Badrawi 94 181 Victor Huthart 86 181 15 Guy de Valle Flor 85 180 Yury Nikandrov 97 180 17 Juan Enrique Lira 93 179 Gerhard Aßmus 89 179 19 Ede Szomjas 93 178 Platon Georgitsis 89 178 Kenichi Kumagai 85 178 22 Bram Zanella 93 177 Heinz Kramer 88 177 24 Leo Franciosi 93 176 Maurice Tabet 94 176 26 Gilberto Navarro 85 174 27 Pierre-André Flückiger 95 173 28 Franz Sarnitz 86 172 29 Josef Hrach 92 170 30 Arnold Riegger 87 168 31 Károly Kulin-Nagy 85 167 32 Juan Malo 90 166 Václav Zavázal 87 166 34 Edoardo Casciano 92 165 35 Wim Peeters 87 162 36 Enrique Dibos 88 155 37–66 Marcel Chennaux Unknown Did not advance Enrique Beech Gheorghe Enache Gilbert Henderson Väinö Broman Hassan Moaffi Wenzu Vella Sen Keshav Louis von Sonnenberg Sim Myeong-hui Georgios Pangalos Eduard de Atzel Wang Ching-rui Mitsuo Yamane Bill Gulliver Francis Bonafede Guglielmo Giusti Juan Gindre Juan Ángel Martini Sr. Eric Lucke William Jones Carl Beck-Friis Joseph Grech Rafael de Juan Marcel Rué Aly Knepper Xavier Zequeira Ong Hock Eng Franco Bonato Marcel Otto-Bruc — B. Bratinov K. Lee Jong J. Graf Kesselstatt M. Ouhafsa Zygmunt Kiszkurno F. Rua Jose

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