Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's trap

Women's trap
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
VenueMarkópoulo Olympic Shooting
Centre
DateAugust 16, 2004
Competitors17 from 16 nations
Winning score88
Medalists
   Australia
   Spain
   South Korea
Shooting at the
2004 Summer Olympics
Rifle
50 m rifle three positions men women
50 m rifle prone men
10 m air rifle   men   women
Pistol
50 m pistol men
25 m pistol women
25 m rapid fire pistol men
10 m air pistol men women
Shotgun
Trap men women
Double trap men women
Skeet men women
Running target
10 m running target men

The women's trap competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 16 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece. Suzanne Balogh of Australia won the competition by a wide four-hit margin.

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 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 100 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 tie.

Australia's Suzanne Balogh battled her way against the gusty winds on a mountaintop range outside Athens to claim the gold medal in this event with a total score of 88 clay pigeons.[1] Spain's María Quintanal took the silver with 84, while South Korea's Lee Bo-na hit 23 out of 25 targets for a combined record of 83 to grab a bronze, overwhelming 17-year-old American high school student Whitly Loper by just one shot.[2][3]

Normally, no more than one competitor per country would be allowed in this event, but an exception was made for Canada to let Susan Nattrass take use of a redistributed quota place. 28 years after her Olympic debut, Nattrass reached the final but finished sixth.

Records

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

Qualification records
World record  Viktoria Chuyko (UKR) 74 Nicosia, Cyprus 13 June 1998
Olympic record  Daina Gudzinevičiūtė (LTU) 71 Sydney, Australia 18 September 2000
Final records
World record  Elena Tkach (RUS) 97 (73+24) Seoul, South Korea 12 May 2001
Olympic record  Daina Gudzinevičiūtė (LTU) 93 (71+22) Sydney, Australia 18 September 2000

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 Total Shoot-off Notes
1 Suzanne Balogh Australia 23232066 Q
2 María Quintanal Spain 24192265 Q
3 Susanne Kiermayer Germany 20212162 Q
4 Whitly Loper United States 21202162 Q
5 Susan Nattrass Canada 20221961 Q
6 Lee Bo-na South Korea 18231960 2 Q
7 Emanuela Felici San Marino 20211960 1
8 Taeko Takeba Japan 20192059
9 Sarah Gibbins Great Britain 21172058
9 Pia Hansen Sweden 19192058
9 Roberta Pelosi Italy 20152358
12 Stéphanie Neau France 17211957
13 Irina Laritcheva Russia 18182056
14 Daina Gudzinevičiūtė Lithuania 19191755
15 Viktoria Chuyko Ukraine 14221854
16 Cynthia Meyer Canada 20161652
17 Gao E China 15151848

Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total
1st  Suzanne Balogh (AUS) 66 22 88
2nd  María Quintanal (ESP) 65 19 84
3rd  Lee Bo-na (KOR) 60 23 83
4  Whitly Loper (USA) 62 20 82
5  Susanne Kiermayer (GER) 62 17 79
6  Susan Nattrass (CAN) 61 15 76

References

  1. "Top shot's Athens efforts trigger gold". ABC News Australia. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. "Balogh wins gold". Times of Malta. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  3. "A longshot takes aim". The New York Sun. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 18 July 2015.

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