Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's trap

Men's trap at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre
Date	August 14, 2004 August 15, 2004
Competitors	35 from 26 nations
Winning score	149 =OR
Medalists
Alexey Alipov  Russia Giovanni Pellielo 23x15px Italy Adam Vella  Australia

Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions		men		women
50 m rifle prone		men
10 m air rifle		men		women
Pistol
50 m pistol		men
25 m pistol				women
25 m rapid fire pistol		men
10 m air pistol		men		women
Shotgun
Trap		men		women
Double trap		men		women
Skeet		men		women
Running target
10 m running target		men

The men's trap competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 14 and 15 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 5 sets of 25 targets in trap shooting, with 10 targets being thrown to the left, 10 to the right, and 5 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 final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25 targets, where only one shot could be taken at each target. The total score from all 150 targets was used to determine final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.

Russia's Alexey Alipov attained an almost perfect score of 149 to establish an Olympic record for the gold medal in this event. The silver medal was awarded to Italy's Giovanni Pellielo with 146 points, while Australia's Adam Vella claimed the bronze with 145. Vella's teammate and two-time defending Olympic champion Michael Diamond missed a chance for his third Olympic gold in the final round, after firing only 119 birds to earn the eighth position in the prelims.

Records

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

Qualification records
World record	Lance Bade (USA)	125	Barcelona, Spain	23 July 1998
Olympic record	Michael Diamond (AUS)	124	Atlanta, United States	21 July 1996

Final records
World record	Marco Tittarelli (ITA)	150 (125+25)	Suhl, Germany	11 June 1996
Olympic record	Michael Diamond (AUS)	149	Atlanta, United States	21 July 1996

Qualification round

Rank	Athlete	Country	1	2	3	Day 1	4	5	Total	Notes
1	Alexey Alipov	Russia	25	25	24	74	25	25	124	Q, =OR
2	Lance Bade	United States	25	25	23	73	25	24	122	Q
3	Giovanni Pellielo	23x15px Italy	24	25	25	74	24	24	122	Q
4	Khaled Al-Mudhaf	Kuwait	25	24	23	72	24	25	121	Q
5	Adam Vella	Australia	24	25	23	72	25	24	121	Q
6	Ahmed Al-Maktoum	United Arab Emirates	25	25	23	73	25	23	121	Q
7	Olaf Kirchstein	Germany	25	23	23	71	23	25	119
8	Michael Diamond	Australia	25	22	25	72	24	23	119
9	Francesco Amici	San Marino	25	24	23	72	24	23	119
9	Francisco Boza	Peru	25	25	23	73	24	22	119
9	Derek Burnett	Ireland	25	24	23	72	24	23	119
9	Stéphane Clamens	France	25	24	24	73	24	22	119
13	Bret Erickson	United States	24	25	24	73	22	23	118
14	Nidal Asmar	Lebanon	23	23	24	70	24	23	117
14	Rodrigo Bastos	Brazil	24	23	23	70	23	24	117
14	Karsten Bindrich	Germany	23	23	23	69	24	24	117
14	Naser Meqlad	Kuwait	24	23	25	72	23	22	117
14	Petri Nummela	Finland	25	24	24	73	25	19	117
19	Ian Peel	Great Britain	23	24	23	70	23	23	116
19	Manavjit Singh Sandhu	India	22	25	24	71	21	24	116
21	Custódio Ezequiel	Portugal	21	24	24	69	24	22	115
21	Lee Wung Yew	Singapore	24	25	23	72	21	22	115
21	Mansher Singh	India	25	23	21	69	23	23	115
21	Oğuzhan Tüzün	Turkey	22	24	23	69	23	23	115
25	Maxim Kosarev	Russia	24	24	23	71	19	23	113
25	Edward Ling	Great Britain	24	21	24	69	22	22	113
27	Lucas Rafael Bennazar Ortiz	Puerto Rico	21	21	24	66	24	22	112
27	Yves Tronc	France	22	24	23	69	25	18	112
27	Marco Venturini	23x15px Italy	22	23	22	67	23	22	112
30	Glenn Kable	Fiji	21	22	25	68	23	20	111
31	Nikolaos Antoniadis	Greece	23	23	22	68	21	21	110
32	Jethro Dionisio	Philippines	24	20	23	67	24	18	109
33	Danilo Caro	Colombia	24	24	21	69	21	18	108
34	Bernard Yeoh Cheng Han	Malaysia	22	22	21	65	20	22	107
35	Francesc Repiso Romero	Andorra	24	23	22	69	23	14	106

Final

Rank	Athlete	Qual	Final	Total	Notes
	Alexey Alipov (RUS)	124	25	149	=OR
	22x20px Giovanni Pellielo (ITA)	122	24	146
	Adam Vella (AUS)	121	24	145
4	Ahmed Al Maktoum (UAE)	121	23	144
5	Lance Bade (USA)	122	21	143
6	Khaled Al-Mudhaf (KUW)	121	20	141

External links

• Official Results