Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's trap

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Women's trap
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Centro Nacional de Tiro - Rio de Janeiro.jpg
View of the outdoor field at the National Shooting Center, where the Women's trap took place.
Venue National Shooting Center
Date7 August 2016
Competitors21 from 17 nations
Winning score12/15 (in the gold medal match)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Catherine Skinner Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Silver medal icon.svg Natalie Rooney Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Bronze medal icon.svg Corey Cogdell Flag of the United States.svg  United States
  2012
2020  

The women's trap event at the 2016 Olympic Games took place on 7 August 2016 at the National Shooting Center. [1]

National Shooting Center

The National Shooting Center, known as the Olympic Shooting Centre during the 2016 Summer Olympics, is a firing range in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The range was opened in 2007 and was upgraded to host the sports shooting events for the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

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Competition format

The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 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 semifinal round. There, they fired one round of 15 targets, where only one shot could be taken at each target. Best 2 in the semifinal round advance to gold medal match, while 3rd and 4th advance to bronze medal match. The medal match is an additional round of 15 targets.

Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tie.

The medals were presented by Sam Ramsamy, IOC member, South Africa and Medhat Wahdan, Honorary Member and Technical Delegates of the International Shooting Sport Federation.

Sam Ramsamy OIS is an educator, activist and sports administrator from South Africa.

International Olympic Committee ruling body of the Olympic movement

The International Olympic Committee is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas in 1894, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern Summer and Winter Olympic Games.

International Shooting Sport Federation international shooting sports governing body

The International Shooting Sport Federation, also known with the acronym ISSF, is the governing body of the Olympic Shooting events in Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun disciplines, and of several non-Olympic Shooting sport events. ISSF’s activities include regulation of the sport, Olympic qualifications and organization of international competitions such as the ISSF World Cup Series, the ISSF World Cup Finals, the ISSF Separate World Championship in Shotgun events and the ISSF World Championship in all events.

Records

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

Qualification records
World recordFlag of Italy.svg  Jessica Rossi  (ITA)
Flag of the United States.svg  Corey Cogdell  (USA)
75 London, United Kingdom
Granada, Spain
4 August 2012
5 July 2013
Olympic recordFlag of Italy.svg  Jessica Rossi  (ITA)75 London, United Kingdom 4 August 2012

Qualification round

RankAthleteCountry123Shoot-offTotalNotes
1 Laetisha Scanlan Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 22252370Q
2 Jessica Rossi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 24212469Q
3 Fátima Gálvez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 24222369Q
4 Natalie Rooney Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 24232168Q
5 Corey Cogdell Flag of the United States.svg  United States 22232268Q
6 Catherine Skinner Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 222124+267Q
7 Cynthia Meyer Flag of Canada.svg  Canada 212323+167
8 Mariya Dmitriyenko Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 24202266
9 Gaby Ahrens Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia 23222166
10 Satu Mäkelä-Nummela Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 22242066
11 Ekaterina Rabaya Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 22202365
12 Pak Yong-hui Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea 23202265
13 Arianna Perilli Flag of San Marino.svg  San Marino 21232165
14 Ray Bassil Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon 23222065
15 Chen Fang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 23212064
16 Alessandra Perilli Flag of San Marino.svg  San Marino 22221963
17 Lin Yi-chun Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 22202062
18 Tatiana Barsuk Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 21221962
19 Jana Beckmann Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 20202161
20 Yukie Nakayama Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 19222061
21 Janice Teixeira Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 22211760

Semifinal

RankAthleteCountryTotalShoot-offNotes
1 Catherine Skinner Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 14Gold Medal Match
2 Natalie Rooney Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 13+1Gold Medal Match
3 Corey Cogdell Flag of the United States.svg  United States 13+0Bronze Medal Match
4 Fátima Gálvez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 12Bronze Medal Match
5 Laetisha Scanlan Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 10
6 Jessica Rossi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 10

Final (medal matches)

RankAthleteCountryTotalShoot-offNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Catherine Skinner Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 12
Silver medal icon.svg Natalie Rooney Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 11
Bronze medal icon.svg Corey Cogdell Flag of the United States.svg  United States 13+1
4 Fátima Gálvez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 13+0

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References

  1. "Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's trap". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.