Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Mixed trap

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Mixed trap
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Braithwaite.jpg
Gold medalist Bob Braithwaite
VenueVicente Suárez Shooting Range
Dates18–19 October
Competitors55 from 34 nations
Winning score198 =OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bob Braithwaite  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Thomas Garrigus  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kurt Czekalla  East Germany
1972 →

The trap was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on 18 and 19 October 1968 at the shooting ranges in Mexico City. 55 shooters from 34 nations competed.[1] For the first time, the event was open to women as well as men (though none competed). Nations were limited to two shooters each. The event was won by Bob Braithwaite of Great Britain, the nation's first victory in the event and first medal of any color in the trap since 1908. Silver went to Thomas Garrigus of the United States. Kurt Czekalla of East Germany took bronze; it was the first medal in the event for East Germany as a separate nation, and the first medal for any German trap shooter since 1912.

Background[]

This was the 10th 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; it was open to women from 1968 to 1996.[2]

Eight of the top 10 shooters from the 1964 Games returned: gold medalist Ennio Mattarelli of Italy, silver medalist Pāvels Seničevs of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Galliano Rossini of Italy, fifth-place finisher Ion Dumitrescu of Romania, sixth-place finisher Juan Enrique Lira of Chile, seventh-place finisher Bob Braithwaite of Great Britain, ninth-place finisher Josef Meixner of Austria, and tenth-place finisher Mohamed Mehrez of Egypt. Rossini was competing for the fifth time in the event, with a 1956 gold medal and a 1960 silver medal. Two of the three World Champions since the last Games competed: Lira (1965) and Guy Rénard of Belgium (1967); Seničevs had taken bronze in 1966.[3]

The Browning shotgun was the most popular armament for the event.[3]

Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ireland, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, and Uruguay each made their debut in the event; East and West Germany competed separately for the first time. Great Britain made its 10th 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. Only a single round of shooting was done, with all shooters facing 200 targets. Shooting was done in 8 series of 25 targets. Shoot-offs of 25 targets each were shot as necessary to resolve ties for medals.[3]

Records[]

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

World record
Olympic record  Ennio Mattarelli (ITA) 198 Tokyo, Japan 15–17 October 1964

Bob Braithwaite of Great Britain tied the Olympic record at 198.

Schedule[]

Date Time Round
Friday, 18 October 1968 8:30 Course 1
Saturday, 19 October 1968 8:30 Course 2

Results[]

Braithwaite started his first series at 11 of 13, but then finished that series and each of the next seven perfectly (hitting 187 consecutive targets).[3][4]

A three-way tie for second place at 196 points required a shoot-off. Defending silver medalist Seničevs hit 22 on the shoot-off, while Garrigus and Czekalla both were perfect. The latter two advanced to a second shoot-off. Czekalla missed the first target, enough to put Garrigus on top for silver when the American was perfect again; Czekalla finished the second shoot-off at 23 and a bronze medal.

Rank Shooter Nation Score Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bob Braithwaite  Great Britain 198 =OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Thomas Garrigus  United States 196 Shoot-off 1: 25
Shoot-off 2: 25
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kurt Czekalla  East Germany 196 Shoot-off 1: 25
Shoot-off 2: 23
4 Pāvels Seničevs  Soviet Union 196 Shoot-off 1: 22
5 Pierre Candelo  France 195
6 Adam Smelczyński  Poland 195
7 Aleksandr Alipov  Soviet Union 195
8 John Primrose  Canada 194
9 Jaime Bladas  Spain 194
10 Karni Singh  India 194
11 Ion Dumitrescu  Romania 193
12 Michel Carrega  France 193
13 Galliano Rossini  Italy 193
14 José Cusí  Spain 192
15 Juan Enrique Lira  Chile 192
16 Edward Shaske  Canada 192
17 Randhir Singh  India 192
18 Elias Salhab  Lebanon 191
19 Mohamed Mehrez  Egypt 191
20 Pedro Estay  Chile 191
21 Gheorghe Florescu  Romania 191
22 Rodolfo Guarnieri  Argentina 190
23 Rudolf Hager  East Germany 190
24 Juan Ángel Martini Jr.  Argentina 190
25 Georgios Pangalos  Greece 190
26 Ray Stafford  United States 189
27 Ennio Mattarelli  Italy 189
28 Sten Karlsson  Sweden 189
29 Werner Bühse  West Germany 189
30 Metin Salihoğlu  Turkey 188
31 George Silvernail  Puerto Rico 188
30 Ivo Orlandi  Venezuela 187
33 Miguel Barrenechea  Mexico 187
34 Eric Grantham  Great Britain 187
35 Markos Tzoumaras  Greece 187
36 Guy Rénard  Belgium 187
37 Josef Meixner  Austria 187
38 Erich Gehmann  West Germany 187
39 Kjell Sørensen  Norway 185
40 Pavitr Kachasanee  Thailand 183
41 Gustavo Zepeda  Mexico 181
42 Leo Franciosi  San Marino 181
43 Lin Ho-ming  Taiwan 181
44 Badir Shoukri  Egypt 177
45 Salvatore Pelliccioni  San Marino 177
46 Cheng Sung-gun  Taiwan 175
47 Dermot Kelly  Ireland 175
48 Walter Perón  Peru 175
49 Dipya Mongkollugsana  Thailand 175
50 Arturo Porro  Uruguay 171
51 Carlos Asbun  Bolivia 163
52 Ricardo Roberts  Bolivia 161
53 Ángel Marchand  Puerto Rico 156
54 Roberto Soundy  El Salvador 125
55 Domingo Lorenzo  Dominican Republic 124

References[]

  1. ^ "Shooting at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Mixed Trap". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d "Trap, Open". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  4. ^ Official Report, p. 427.
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