Shooting at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's trap

Men's trap at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Gold medalist Ennio Mattarelli
Venue	Tokorozawa Clay Pigeon Shooting Range, Tokorozawa, Saitama
Date	15–17 October 1964
Competitors	51 from 28 nations
Winning score	198 OR
Medalists
Ennio Mattarelli   Italy Pāvels Seničevs   Soviet Union William Morris   United States
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The men's trap was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held from 15 to 17 October 1964 at the Tokorozawa Clay Pigeon Shooting Range in Tokorozawa, Saitama. ^[1] 51 shooters from 28 nations competed. ^[1] Each nation could send up to two shooters. The event was won by Ennio Mattarelli of Italy, the nation's second victory in three Games in the event. Pāvels Seničevs of the Soviet Union took silver. William Morris earned the United States' first medal in the trap since 1924 with his bronze. Seničevs and Morris defeated Galliano Rossini of Italy in a three-way shoot-off for second; Rossini (who had won gold in the event in 1956 and silver in 1960) thus just missed earning a third medal in the trap. Defending champion Ion Dumitrescu of Romania finished fifth.

Background

This was the ninth 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. As with most shooting events, it was nominally open to women from 1968 to 1980; the trap remained open to women through 1992. Very few women participated these years. The event returned to being men-only for 1996, though the new double trap had separate events for men and women that year. In 2000, a separate women's event was added and it has been contested at every Games since. There was also a men's team trap event held four times from 1908 to 1924. ^{[2] [3]}

Eight of the top 11 (including a tie for 10th) shooters from the 1960 Games returned, including all three medalists: gold medalist Ion Dumitrescu of Romania, silver medalist Galliano Rossini of Italy, bronze medalist Sergei Kalinin of the Soviet Union, sixth-place finisher Joe Wheater of Great Britain, seventh-place finisher Adam Smelczyński of Poland, eighth-place finishers Claude Foussier of France and Karni Singh of India, and tenth-place finisher Laszlo Szapáry of Austria. Rossini was also a former champion (gold in 1956) and was competing in the event for the fourth time. Smelczyński had been the silver medalist to Rossini in 1956. In the two World Championships since 1960, Dumitrescu had taken a bronze (1961) and Singh had taken silver (1962). The 1961 World Champion, Ennio Mattarelli, joined Rossini for a formidable Italian pair. ^[1]

Israel, Pakistan, and Rhodesia each made their debut in the event. Great Britain made its ninth 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. The 1964 event dropped the two-round competition that had been used in 1960; only a single round of shooting was done, with all shooters facing 200 targets. Shooting was done in 8 series of 25 targets. ^{[4] [1]}

Records

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

World record
Olympic record	Galliano Rossini  (ITA)	195	Melbourne, Australia	29 November – 1 December 1956

Ennio Mattarelli of Italy set a new Olympic record at 198.

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
Thursday, 15 October 1964 Friday, 16 October 1964 Saturday, 17 October 1964	9:30	Final

Results

Rank	Shooter	Nation	Score	Notes
	Ennio Mattarelli	Italy	198	OR
	Pāvels Seničevs	Soviet Union	194	Shoot-off: 25
	William Morris	United States	194	Shoot-off: 24
4	Galliano Rossini	Italy	194	Shoot-off: 23
5	Ion Dumitrescu	Romania	193
6	Juan Enrique Lira	Chile	193
7	Bob Braithwaite	Great Britain	192
8	Joachim Marscheider	United Team of Germany	191
9	Josef Meixner	Austria	190
10	Mohamed Mehrez	Egypt	190
11	Joe Wheater	Great Britain	190
12	Floyd Nattrass	Canada	190
13	Juan Ángel Martini, Sr.	Argentina	189
14	Heinz Rehder	United Team of Germany	189
15	Mitsuo Sanami	Japan	189
16	Lennart Ahlin	Sweden	189
17	Gilberto Navarro	Chile	188
18	Armando Marques	Portugal	188
19	Georgios Pangalos	Greece	187
20	Rune Flodman	Sweden	187
21	Frank Little	United States	187
22	Sergei Kalinin	Soviet Union	187
23	An Jeong-geun	South Korea	186
24	Claude Foussier	France	186
25	Jaime Bladas	Spain	186
26	Karni Singh	India	186
27	Johannes Lamprecht	Rhodesia	186
28	Guy de Valle Flor	Portugal	186
29	Michel Prévost	France	184
30	Toshiyasu Ishige	Japan	184
31	José Luis Alonso Berbegal	Spain	184
32	Adam Smelczyński	Poland	183
33	Gheorghe Enache	Romania	182
34	Eduard de Atzel	Peru	182
35	Park Sam-gyu	South Korea	181
36	Goh Tai Yong	Malaysia	178
37	Enrique Dibos	Peru	178
38	Ahmed Kadry Genena	Egypt	178
39	Harry Willsie	Canada	177
40	Joseph Aoun	Lebanon	176
41	Lin Ho-ming	Taiwan	175
42	Jack Rickards	Rhodesia	174
43	Laszlo Szapáry	Austria	173
44	José Passera	Argentina	173
45	Fotios Isaakidis	Greece	172
46	Jaime Loyola	Puerto Rico	171
47	Maksim Kahan	Israel	170
48	Lin Wen-chu	Taiwan	170
49	Devi Singh	India	168
50	Yap Pow Thong	Malaysia	140
51	Moihuddin Khawja	Pakistan	91
—	Miguel Torres	Puerto Rico	DNS
	Antonios Saad	Lebanon

References

1. "Trap, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
2. https://www.olympedia.org/sports/SHO
3. "Historical Results". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
4. Official Report, p. 615.