The men'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 shooti ...
competition at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
was held on August 17 at the
Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near
Athens
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,
Greece
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.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final match. In the qualifier round, each shooter fires 3 sets of 50 shots in
trap shooting
Trap shooting is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting. The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays.
Trap shooting is distinguished by the targets being launched from a single "house" or machine, ...
. Shots were paired, with two targets being launched at a time.
The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fire for one additional round of 50. The total score from all 200 shots was used to determine the final ranking. Ties are broken through a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one pair at a time until there is no longer a tie.
Ahmed Al Maktoum, a member of
Dubai
Dubai (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...
's royal family, set a historic milestone for the
United Arab Emirates
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by picking up the nation's first ever gold medal in Olympic history. He made a new Olympic record of 179 in the qualification round and increased his six-point lead to a ten-point post-final victory margin at 189.
India's
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (born 29 January 1970) is an Indian politician, Olympic medallist in shooting and retired colonel in the Indian Army. He is serving as a cabinet minister at the Industry & Commerce, Youth Affairs & Sports Department ...
, who finished fifth earlier in the prelims with 135, shot steadily in the final round to grab the silver with 179, while China's
Wang Zheng scored 178 to edge out his teammate
Hu Binyuan for the bronze by a single hit.
Defending Olympic champion
Richard Faulds failed to reach the final round after a dismal display in the prelims, posting a total record of 130 out of 150. He finished as thirteenth in a field of twenty-five shooters.
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Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round
Equalled Olympic record – Q Qualified for final
Final
Equalled Olympic record
References
External links
Official Results
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Men's Double Trap
Men's events at the 2004 Summer Olympics