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This list of national shooting records surpassing the world records is possible because of the International Shooting Sport Federation's rigid record regulations. Only competitions directly supervised by the ISSF – Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cups, World Cup Finals and continental championships – are approved for setting world records.
Olympic trap is a shooting sports discipline contested at the Olympic Games and sanctioned by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Usually referred to simply as "trap", the discipline is also known in the United States as international trap , bunker trap , trench or international clay pigeon . [ 1 ]
At a World Cup event held in Tucson, Arizona in 2012, Wilson set a new world record for the double trap. [8] He scored 198 out of a possible 200 in the final, beating the previous record of 196. [9] By winning a silver at the World Cup event in Chile in March 2012, he gained another quota spot for the British team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. [10]
Diamond was introduced to sport shooting at the age of eight by his father, Con, who was a sporting shooter and managed a gun club. [2]Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for trap consecutively in Atlanta in 1996 and Sydney in 2000, [3] becoming the second men's trap shooter to have done so.
The "trap" event, officially the ISSF Olympic trap, is an event held at the Summer Olympic Games.The men's event was introduced in 1900, and held at most editions of the Games (except 1904 and 1928, when no shooting events were held, and 1932 to 1948) and every edition since 1952.
Susan Marie Nattrass, OC (born November 5, 1950) is a Canadian trap shooter and medical researcher in osteoporosis.She was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta.Competing at an elite international level from the 1970s through the 2010s, Nattrass has had multiple appearances, in one or both of trap or double trap, at Olympic Games, [1] Commonwealth Games, World Championships, and Pan American Games.
There was also a men's team trap event held four times from 1908 to 1924. [2] [3] Three of the top 10 shooters from the 1980 Games returned: gold medalist Luciano Giovannetti of Italy and the Spanish team, fifth-place finisher Eladio Vallduvi and tenth-place finisher Ricardo Sancho. Vallduvi and Giovannetti had split the World Championship in 1982.
Diamond was also the reigning World Champion, winning in 1999 after silver medals in 1991 and 1995. Three-time World Champion (1995–1997) Giovanni Pellielo, the first man to score a perfect 125-target qualifying round, was a contender to unseat Diamond. Bade had also hit a perfect qualifying round.