Date August 27 & 29, 1972 Winning score 199 WR | Competitors 57 from 34 nations Venue Schießanlage | |
Location Schießanlage, Garching bei München, Germany | ||
The following are the results of the Trap competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The 1970 and 1971 world champion and co-holder of the world record Michel Carrega of France finished a surprise second to Angelo Scalzone of Italy, who broke the world record with a near perfect performance of 199 out of 200.
Final
The format was: 200 targets. Four rounds of 25 targets for a total of 100 targets in each day. Ties were broken by the best score in round 8, if still tied after that it goes to round 7 and continues until the tie is broken.
References
Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed trap Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA