Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Mixed trap

The trap was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held between 20 and 22 July 1980 at the shooting ranges in Moscow. 34 shooters from 19 nations competed.[1] Each nation was limited to two shooters. The event was won by Luciano Giovannetti of Italy, the nation's fourth victory in the trap (most among nations, moving out of a tie with the United States). Silver went to the host Soviet Union's Rustam Yambulatov, that nation's first medal in the event since 1964. Jörg Damme of East Germany took bronze. The second through fourth places required a shoot-off, with a second shoot-off for silver and bronze.

Mixed trap
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Gold medalist Luciano giovannetti (1987)
VenueMoscow, Soviet Union
Dates20–22 July
Competitors34 from 19 nations
Winning score198
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Luciano Giovannetti  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Rustam Yambulatov  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jörg Damme  East Germany
← 1976
1984 →

Background

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This was the 13th 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]

Only one of the top 10 shooters from the 1976 Games returned: fourth-place finisher Burckhardt Hoppe of East Germany. The reigning champion, Donald Haldeman of the United States, was kept out by the American-led boycott. Three different Italian shooters had earned medals at the World Championships since the 1976 Games; Silvano Basagni was among the two shooters selected for the Olympic team. Basagni had earned Olympic bronze in 1972 and a World silver in 1978. He was joined by Luciano Giovannetti on the Italian squad. None of the three World Champions competed in Moscow; indeed, Basagni and 1979 silver medalist Aleksandr Asanov of the Soviet Union were the only two World medalists from the last three years.[4]

Jordan made its debut in the event. Great Britain missed the event for the first time; Italy was the competing nation with the most appearances (9), with four nations (Great Britain, Canada, France, and Sweden) with more appearances not competing.

Competition format

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The competition used the 200-target format introduced with the return of trap to the Olympics in 1952. Only a single round of shooting was done, with all shooters facing 200 targets. Shooting was done in 8 series of 25 targets. The first three series (75 shots) were on day 1, the next three (75 shots) on day 2, and the final two series (50 shots) on day 3. Shoot-offs of 25 shots were used as necessary to break ties for medals.[4]

Records

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

World record   Angelo Scalzone (ITA) 199 Munich, West Germany 27–29 August 1972
Olympic record   Angelo Scalzone (ITA) 199 Munich, West Germany 27–29 August 1972

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

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Sunday, 20 July 1980 10:00 Course 1
Monday, 21 July 1980 10:00 Course 2
Tuesday, 22 July 1980 10:00 Final course

Results

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Rank Shooter Nation Total Shoot-off 1 Shoot-off 2
  Luciano Giovannetti   Italy 198
  Rustam Yambulatov   Soviet Union 196 24 25
  Jörg Damme   East Germany 196 24 24
4 Josef Hojný   Czechoslovakia 196 23
5 Eladio Vallduvi   Spain 195
6 Aleksandr Asanov   Soviet Union 195
7 Silvano Basagni   Italy 194
8 Burckhardt Hoppe   East Germany 192
9 István Putz   Hungary 191
10 Ricardo Sancho   Spain 190
11 Thomas Hewitt   Ireland 189
Josef Machan   Czechoslovakia 189
Larry Vella   Malta 189
14 László Ludmann   Hungary 188
Heinrich Münzberger   Austria 188
Karni Singh   India 188
Pencho Vichev   Bulgaria 188
18 Stayko Nenov   Bulgaria 187
Marcos José Olsen   Brazil 187
Nikolaus Reinprecht   Austria 187
21 Randhir Singh   India 186
22 Leo Franciosi   San Marino 185
Elio Gasperoni   San Marino 185
24 Francesco Gaset   Andorra 184
25 Paul Meyer   Zimbabwe 183
26 Adnan Houjeij   Syria 181
Joan Tomas   Andorra 181
28 Frans Chetcuti   Malta 179
29 Nidal Nasser   Syria 178
30 Francisco Romero Portilla   Guatemala 172
31 Mohamed Issa Shahin   Jordan 171
32 Francisco Boza   Peru 169
33 Jason Cambitzis   Zimbabwe 165
34 Nader George Shalhoub   Jordan 66

References

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  1. ^ "Shooting at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Mixed Trap". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Shooting". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Trap, Open". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 June 2021.