Competitors 25 from 20 nations Date 20 September 2000 | Winning score 187 | |
Venue Sydney International Shooting Centre | ||
The men's double trap competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 20 September. Home shooter Russell Mark set a new Olympic record in the qualification round and was close to defending his inaugural double trap title from Atlanta, 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
Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's double trap Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA