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 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 ...
was held on 20 September. Home shooter
Russell Mark
Russell Andrew Mark, (born 25 February 1964 in Hoppers Crossing, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian Olympic Champion Shooter. He won the Olympic gold medal in double trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won an Olympic sil ...
set a new Olympic record in the qualification round and was close to defending his inaugural double trap title from
Atlanta
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, but lost the gold medal shoot-off to
Richard Faulds.
Fehaid Al Deehani won the first Olympic medal ever for
Kuwait
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.
Records
The existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
Qualification round
The qualification round consisted of 25 doubles in the A programme, 25 in the B programme, and 25 in the C programme.
OR Olympic record – Q Qualified for final
Final
The final repeated the C programme for the top six competitors.
References
Sources
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Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Men's events at the 2000 Summer Olympics