Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's trap


The Men's trap event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 9 and 10 at the Beijing Shooting Range Clay Target Field. The Czech Republic won its second shooting gold in two days through David Kostelecký, shooting a perfect 25 in the final round and establishing an Olympic record of 146 hits total after the 2005 rule change.
The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 5 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 final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25 targets, where only one shot could be taken at each target. The total score from all 150 targets was used to determine final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer a tied.

Records

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

Qualification round

The qualification round was held between 09:00 and 13:30 China Standard Time on Saturday and between 09:00 and 12:00 on Sunday.
RankAthleteCountry123Day 145TotalShoot-offNotes
1Aleksei Alipov232425722524 121 Q
2David Kostelecký242425732424 121 Q
3Erminio Frasca232425722424 120 Q
4Giovanni Pellielo252523732423 120 Q
5Michael Diamond252324722423 119.5 3Q
6Josip Glasnović252324722522 119.5 3Q
7Karsten Bindrich2423247125231192
8Mansher Singh252420692424117
9Erik Varga232524722322117
10Jesús Serrano242123682424116
11Pavel Gurkin242421692324116
12Manavjit Singh Sandhu232324702224116
13Glenn Kable242122672325115
14Mário Filipovič222424702223115
15Lee Young-sik232423702223115
16Li Yang242124692422115
17Yves Tronc242322692422115
18Naser Meqlad232424712222115
19Juan Carlos Dasque212425702421115
20Graeme Ede212420652524114
21Li Yajun182324652424113
22Bret Erickson202322652424113
23Dominic Grazioli232422692024113
24Stefan Rüttgeroth242121662423113
25Stéphane Clamens252020652324112
26Giuseppe Di Salvatore242319662323112
27Manuel Silva222323682221111
28Lee Wung Yew232422691922110
29Derek Burnett242223692219110
30Ahmed Al-Maktoum242322692219110
31Craig Henwood222123662320109
32Adham Medhat202222642321108
33Alberto Fernández242316632221106
34Cesar David Menacho Flores242221671821106
35Eric Ang192422652120106

Q Qualified for final

Final

The final was held at 15:00 China Standard Time on Sunday.
RankAthleteQualFinalTotal5th place
shoot-off		Bronze
shoot-off		Notes
12125 146 OR
12023 143
21 142.5 3
423 142 2
511921 140.5 2
620 140 1

OR Olympic record