The women's

double trap Double trap is a shotgun shooting sport, one of the ISSF shooting events. Participants use a shotgun to attempt to break a clay disk flung away from the shooter at high speed. The layout of double trap shooting is similar to that of trap shoot ...

competition at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

was the second of three instances, and the only one not won by

Kim Rhode Kimberly Susan Rhode (born July 16, 1979) is an American double trap and skeet shooter. A California native, she is a six-time Olympic medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap. She is the most succes ...

, who came third.

Pia Hansen Pia Hansen (born 25 September 1965) is a Swedish sport shooter. She originally competed in Nordic Trap but then moved on to Olympic trap and double trap. She won the latter at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and she also finished eighth in tr ...

raised Rhode's Olympic record by seven hits, and was only one hit from

Deborah Gelisio Deborah Gelisio (born 26 February 1976) is a former Italian sport shooter who won a silver medal in Double trap at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Biography In career she won also five medals at ISSF World Shooting Championships The ISSF World Shooti ...

's World records in both the qualification and final rounds. Gelisio won the silver medal, distanced by a four-hit margin.

Records

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

Qualification round

The qualification round consisted of 20 doubles each in the A, B and C programmes. OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final

Final

The final repeated the C programme for the top six shooters. OR Olympic record

References

Sources

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