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Shooting at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's trap

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Men's trap
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Gold medalist Ennio Mattarelli
VenueTokorozawa Clay Pigeon Shooting Range, Tokorozawa, Saitama
Date15–17 October 1964
Competitors51 from 28 nations
Winning score198 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ennio Mattarelli  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pāvels Seničevs  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) William Morris  United States
← 1960
1968 →

The men's trap was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held from 15 to 17 October 1964 at the Tokorozawa Clay Pigeon Shooting Range in Tokorozawa, Saitama.[1] 51 shooters from 28 nations competed.[1] Each nation could send up to two shooters. The event was won by Ennio Mattarelli of Italy, the nation's second victory in three Games in the event. Pāvels Seničevs of the Soviet Union took silver. William Morris earned the United States' first medal in the trap since 1924 with his bronze. Seničevs and Morris defeated Galliano Rossini of Italy in a three-way shoot-off for second; Rossini (who had won gold in the event in 1956 and silver in 1960) thus just missed earning a third medal in the trap. Defending champion Ion Dumitrescu of Romania finished fifth.

Background

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This was the ninth 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.[2][3]

Eight of the top 11 (including a tie for 10th) shooters from the 1960 Games returned, including all three medalists: gold medalist Ion Dumitrescu of Romania, silver medalist Galliano Rossini of Italy, bronze medalist Sergei Kalinin of the Soviet Union, sixth-place finisher Joe Wheater of Great Britain, seventh-place finisher Adam Smelczyński of Poland, eighth-place finishers Claude Foussier of France and Karni Singh of India, and tenth-place finisher Laszlo Szapáry of Austria. Rossini was also a former champion (gold in 1956) and was competing in the event for the fourth time. Smelczyński had been the silver medalist to Rossini in 1956. In the two World Championships since 1960, Dumitrescu had taken a bronze (1961) and Singh had taken silver (1962). The 1961 World Champion, Ennio Mattarelli, joined Rossini for a formidable Italian pair.[1]

Israel, Pakistan, and Rhodesia each made their debut in the event. Great Britain made its ninth appearance, the only nation to have competed at each edition of the event to that point.

Competition format

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The competition used the 200-target format introduced with the return of trap to the Olympics in 1952. The 1964 event dropped the two-round competition that had been used in 1960; only a single round of shooting was done, with all shooters facing 200 targets. Shooting was done in 8 series of 25 targets.[4][1]

Records

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

World record
Olympic record  Galliano Rossini (ITA) 195 Melbourne, Australia 29 November – 1 December 1956

Ennio Mattarelli of Italy set a new Olympic record at 198.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Thursday, 15 October 1964
Friday, 16 October 1964
Saturday, 17 October 1964
9:30 Final

Results

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Rank Shooter Nation Score Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ennio Mattarelli  Italy 198 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pāvels Seničevs  Soviet Union 194 Shoot-off: 25
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) William Morris  United States 194 Shoot-off: 24
4 Galliano Rossini  Italy 194 Shoot-off: 23
5 Ion Dumitrescu  Romania 193
6 Juan Enrique Lira  Chile 193
7 Bob Braithwaite  Great Britain 192
8 Joachim Marscheider  United Team of Germany 191
9 Josef Meixner  Austria 190
10 Mohamed Mehrez  Egypt 190
11 Joe Wheater  Great Britain 190
12 Floyd Nattrass  Canada 190
13 Juan Ángel Martini, Sr.  Argentina 189
14 Heinz Rehder  United Team of Germany 189
15 Mitsuo Sanami  Japan 189
16 Lennart Ahlin  Sweden 189
17 Gilberto Navarro  Chile 188
18 Armando Marques  Portugal 188
19 Georgios Pangalos  Greece 187
20 Rune Flodman  Sweden 187
21 Frank Little  United States 187
22 Sergei Kalinin  Soviet Union 187
23 An Jeong-geun  South Korea 186
24 Claude Foussier  France 186
25 Jaime Bladas  Spain 186
26 Karni Singh  India 186
27 Johannes Lamprecht  Rhodesia 186
28 Guy de Valle Flor  Portugal 186
29 Michel Prévost  France 184
30 Toshiyasu Ishige  Japan 184
31 José Luis Alonso Berbegal  Spain 184
32 Adam Smelczyński  Poland 183
33 Gheorghe Enache  Romania 182
34 Eduard de Atzel  Peru 182
35 Park Sam-gyu  South Korea 181
36 Goh Tai Yong  Malaysia 178
37 Enrique Dibos  Peru 178
38 Ahmed Kadry Genena  Egypt 178
39 Harry Willsie  Canada 177
40 Joseph Aoun  Lebanon 176
41 Lin Ho-ming  Taiwan 175
42 Jack Rickards  Rhodesia 174
43 Laszlo Szapáry  Austria 173
44 José Passera  Argentina 173
45 Fotios Isaakidis  Greece 172
46 Jaime Loyola  Puerto Rico 171
47 Maksim Kahan  Israel 170
48 Lin Wen-chu  Taiwan 170
49 Devi Singh  India 168
50 Yap Pow Thong  Malaysia 140
51 Moihuddin Khawja  Pakistan 91
Miguel Torres  Puerto Rico DNS
Antonios Saad  Lebanon

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Trap, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
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  3. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  4. ^ Official Report, p. 615.