Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's trap

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.

Women's trap
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
VenueMarkópoulo Olympic Shooting
Centre
DateAugust 16, 2004
Competitors17 from 16 nations
Winning score88
Medalists
Suzanne Balogh  Australia
María Quintanal  Spain
Lee Bo-na  South Korea

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)74Nicosia, Cyprus13 June 1998
Olympic record Daina Gudzinevičiūtė (LTU)71Sydney, Australia18 September 2000
Final records
World record Elena Tkach (RUS)97 (73+24)Seoul, South Korea12 May 2001
Olympic record Daina Gudzinevičiūtė (LTU)93 (71+22)Sydney, Australia18 September 2000

Qualification round

Rank Athlete Country 1 2 3 Total Shoot-off Notes
1Suzanne Balogh Australia 23232066Q
2María Quintanal Spain 24192265Q
3Susanne Kiermayer Germany 20212162Q
4Whitly Loper United States 21202162Q
5Susan Nattrass Canada 20221961Q
6Lee Bo-na South Korea 182319602Q
7Emanuela Felici San Marino 202119601
8Taeko Takeba Japan 20192059
9Sarah Gibbins Great Britain 21172058
9Pia Hansen Sweden 19192058
9Roberta Pelosi Italy 20152358
12Stéphanie Neau France 17211957
13Irina Laricheva Russia 18182056
14Daina Gudzinevičiūtė Lithuania 19191755
15Viktoria Chuyko Ukraine 14221854
16Cynthia Meyer Canada 20161652
17Gao E China 15151848

Q Qualified for final

Final

Rank Athlete Qual Final Total
 Suzanne Balogh (AUS)662288
 María Quintanal (ESP)651984
 Lee Bo-na (KOR)602383
4 Whitly Loper (USA)622082
5 Susanne Kiermayer (GER)621779
6 Susan Nattrass (CAN)611576

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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