Double Trap
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Double trap is a clay pigeon shooting
Clay pigeon shooting
Clay pigeon shooting, also known as clay target shooting, and formally known as Inanimate Bird Shooting, is the art of shooting at special flying targets, known as clay pigeons or clay targets, with a shotgun or any type of firearm....

 sport, one of the ISSF shooting events
ISSF shooting events
The International Shooting Sport Federation recognizes several shooting events, some of which have Olympic status. They are divided into four disciplines: rifle, pistol, shotgun and running target....

. Participants use a shotgun
Shotgun
A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug...

 to attempt to break a clay disk flung away from the shooter at high speed.

The layout of double trap shooting is similar to that of trap shooting
Trap shooting
Trap shooting is one of the three major forms of competitive clay pigeon shooting . The others are skeet shooting and sporting clays. There are many versions including Olympic trap, Double trap , Down-The-Line, and Nordic trap. American trap is most popular in the United States and Canada...

. The shooter stands 16 yards behind the house that releases the targets. Two targets are released simultaneously from the house. They follow set paths, usually 35 degrees to left and right of straightaway. The shooter can take one shot at each target.

In international Double Trap competitions, the course of fire is 75 doubles for men and 60 doubles for women. As the men's event enjoys Olympic
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

 status, it also involves a 25-double final for the top six competitors. The women's event was taken off the Olympic program after the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

. Final shooting for women was discontinued in international competition as a result.

World Championships, Men

This event was held in 1989-2009.
Year Place Gold Silver Bronze
1989  Italy Montecatini
Montecatini
- Places in Italy :* Montecatini Terme, health resort in Tuscany* Montecatini Val di Cecina, village and mining town to the south of Pisa*Montecatini, hamlet in the comune of San Martino in Rio...

1990  Soviet Union Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

1991  Australia Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

1993  Spain Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

1994  Italy Fagnano
Fagnano
Fagnano may refer to*Fagnano Alto, a comune in Abruzzo, Italy*Fagnano Castello, a comune in Calabria, Italy*Fagnano Olona, a comune in Lombardy, Italy*Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano, an Italian mathematician...

1995  Cyprus Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

1997  Peru Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

1998  Spain Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

1999  Finland Tampere
Tampere
Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...

2001  Egypt Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

2002  Finland Lahti
Lahti
Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

2003  Cyprus Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

2005  Italy Lonato
Lonato
Lonato del Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy. Lonato is located in the middle of northern Italy, about half way between Milan and Venice, on the south-west shore of Lake Garda, the biggest lake in Italy.The commune is bordered by those of near Castiglione...

2006  Croatia Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

2007  Cyprus Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

2009  Slovenia Maribor
Maribor
Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....

2010  Germany Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...


World Championships, Men Team

This event was held in 1989-2009.
Year Place Gold Silver Bronze
1989  Italy Montecatini
Montecatini
- Places in Italy :* Montecatini Terme, health resort in Tuscany* Montecatini Val di Cecina, village and mining town to the south of Pisa*Montecatini, hamlet in the comune of San Martino in Rio...

 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Daniele Cioni
Albano Pera
Albano Pera
Albano Pera is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta He is European champion from 1988 , and received a silver medal in 1989....


Marco Venturini
 Australia Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...


Russell Mark
Russell Mark
Russell Andrew Mark, OAM is an Australian Trap and Double Trap shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the Olympic gold medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver Olympic medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...


John Maxwell
Terry Rumbel
 Kuwait Kuwait
Kuwait
The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...


Fehaid Aldeehani
Ali Al Hammad
Abdallah Alrashidi
1990  Soviet Union Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

 France France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...


Bernard Blondeau
Jean-Paul Gros
Yves Tronc
Yves Tronc
Yves Tronc is a French sport shooter who specializes in the trap.At the 2008 Olympic Games he finished in joint thirteenth place in the trap qualification, missing a place among the top six, who progressed to the final round. He also competed at the 2004 Olympic Games.-References:...

 Australia Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...


Michael Diamond
Michael Diamond (sport shooter)
Michael Constantine Diamond, OAM is a professional target shooter from Australia. Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for trap both in Atlanta and Sydney . He also holds the world record in double trap, and held the final world record in trap between 2007...


Russell Mark
Russell Mark
Russell Andrew Mark, OAM is an Australian Trap and Double Trap shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the Olympic gold medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver Olympic medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...


Craig Tilley
 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Daniele Cioni
Albano Pera
Albano Pera
Albano Pera is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta He is European champion from 1988 , and received a silver medal in 1989....


Marco Venturini
1991  Australia Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

 United Kingdom Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...


Peter Boden
Peter Croft
Kevin Gill
 United States United States of America
Richard Chordash
Bret Erickson
Jay Waldron
 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Fabio Casadei
Roberto Scalzone
Marco Venturini
1993  Spain Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Ercole Buffoli
Mirco Cenci
Albano Pera
Albano Pera
Albano Pera is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta He is European champion from 1988 , and received a silver medal in 1989....

 United States United States of America
Lance Bade
Lance Bade
Lance Thomas Bade is a target shooter and three-time Olympian.-Career:At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Bade competed in the trap and double trap. In the trap, Bade won the bronze medal...


Bret Erickson
Joshua Lakatos
 Hungary Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...


Zoltan Bodo
Karoly Gombos
Janos Kronome
1994  Italy Fagnano
Fagnano
Fagnano may refer to*Fagnano Alto, a comune in Abruzzo, Italy*Fagnano Castello, a comune in Calabria, Italy*Fagnano Olona, a comune in Lombardy, Italy*Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano, an Italian mathematician...

 United Kingdom Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...


John Grice
Kevin Gill
Michael Rouse
 Australia Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...


Benjamin Kelley
Russell Mark
Russell Mark
Russell Andrew Mark, OAM is an Australian Trap and Double Trap shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the Olympic gold medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver Olympic medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...


Craig Tilley
 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Ercole Buffoli
Mirco Cenci
Albano Pera
Albano Pera
Albano Pera is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta He is European champion from 1988 , and received a silver medal in 1989....

1995  Cyprus Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Mirco Cenci
Daniele Di Spigno
Albano Pera
Albano Pera
Albano Pera is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta He is European champion from 1988 , and received a silver medal in 1989....

 Australia Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...


Steve Haberman
Russell Mark
Russell Mark
Russell Andrew Mark, OAM is an Australian Trap and Double Trap shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the Olympic gold medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver Olympic medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...


Craig Tilley
 United States United States of America
Lance Bade
Lance Bade
Lance Thomas Bade is a target shooter and three-time Olympian.-Career:At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Bade competed in the trap and double trap. In the trap, Bade won the bronze medal...


Bret Erickson
Steve Puls
1997  Peru Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Mirco Cenci
Daniele Di Spigno
Albano Pera
Albano Pera
Albano Pera is an Italian sports shooter and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta He is European champion from 1988 , and received a silver medal in 1989....

 Australia Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...


Michael Diamond
Michael Diamond (sport shooter)
Michael Constantine Diamond, OAM is a professional target shooter from Australia. Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for trap both in Atlanta and Sydney . He also holds the world record in double trap, and held the final world record in trap between 2007...


Russell Mark
Russell Mark
Russell Andrew Mark, OAM is an Australian Trap and Double Trap shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the Olympic gold medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver Olympic medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...


Adam Vella
 United States United States of America
David Alcoriza
Lance Bade
Lance Bade
Lance Thomas Bade is a target shooter and three-time Olympian.-Career:At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Bade competed in the trap and double trap. In the trap, Bade won the bronze medal...


Charles Redding
1998  Spain Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 Australia Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...


Adam Vella
Michael Diamond
Michael Diamond (sport shooter)
Michael Constantine Diamond, OAM is a professional target shooter from Australia. Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for trap both in Atlanta and Sydney . He also holds the world record in double trap, and held the final world record in trap between 2007...


Russell Mark
Russell Mark
Russell Andrew Mark, OAM is an Australian Trap and Double Trap shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the Olympic gold medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver Olympic medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...

 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Luca Marini
Claudio Franzoni
Mirco Cenci
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Binyuan Hu
Bo Li
Bing Zhang
1999  Finland Tampere
Tampere
Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...

 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Daniele Di Spigno
Marco Innocenti
Luca Marini
 Sweden Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....


Conny Persson
Hakan Dahlby
Håkan Dahlby
Håkan Dahlby is a Swedish double trap shooter, the winner of the 2003 and 2004 European Championships. In the 2004 Olympics he finished second in the qualification round, but dropped to fifth place during the final round...


Jonas Berndtsson
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Binyuan Hu
Bo Li
Hao Wang
2001  Egypt Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

 United States United States of America
David Alcoriza
Walton Eller
Walton Eller
Walton "Glenn" Eller is an American trap shooter and three-time U.S. Olympic athlete . At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in men's double trap setting both an Olympic Record and a Final Olympic Record.In 1996, Glenn was the first American to win the British Open Sporting Clay...


Jeffrey Holguin
 Kuwait Kuwait
Kuwait
The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...


Hamad Alafasi
Fehaid Aldeehani
Mashfi Almutairi
 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Mirco Cenci
Daniele Di Spigno
Marco Innocenti
2002  Finland Lahti
Lahti
Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Emanuele Bernasconi
Daniele Di Spigno
Marco Innocenti
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Binyuan Hu
Bo Li
Shuangchun Li
 Kuwait Kuwait
Kuwait
The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...


Hamad Alafasi
Fehaid Aldeehani
Mashfi Almutairi
2003  Cyprus Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

 United States United States of America
Walton Eller
Walton Eller
Walton "Glenn" Eller is an American trap shooter and three-time U.S. Olympic athlete . At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in men's double trap setting both an Olympic Record and a Final Olympic Record.In 1996, Glenn was the first American to win the British Open Sporting Clay...


Jeffrey Holguin
Bill Keever
 Australia Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...


Russell Mark
Russell Mark
Russell Andrew Mark, OAM is an Australian Trap and Double Trap shooter and Olympic Champion. He won the Olympic gold medal in Double Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He also won a silver Olympic medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...


Adam Vella
Steve Haberman
 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Daniele Di Spigno
Marco Innocenti
Luca Marini
2005  Italy Lonato
Lonato
Lonato del Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy. Lonato is located in the middle of northern Italy, about half way between Milan and Venice, on the south-west shore of Lake Garda, the biggest lake in Italy.The commune is bordered by those of near Castiglione...

 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Nan Wang
Wang Nan (sport shooter)
Wang Nan is a male Chinese sports shooter.At the 2008 Olympic Games he finished in twelfth place in the double trap qualification, missing a place among the top six, who progressed to the final round....


Bo Li
Binyuan Hu
 United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...


Ahmed Al Maktoum
Abdulla Alkendi
Saif Alshamsy
 United States United States of America
Jeffrey Holguin
Bret Erickson
Walton Eller
Walton Eller
Walton "Glenn" Eller is an American trap shooter and three-time U.S. Olympic athlete . At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in men's double trap setting both an Olympic Record and a Final Olympic Record.In 1996, Glenn was the first American to win the British Open Sporting Clay...

2006  Croatia Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

 United States United States of America
Joshua Richmond
Walton Eller
Walton Eller
Walton "Glenn" Eller is an American trap shooter and three-time U.S. Olympic athlete . At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in men's double trap setting both an Olympic Record and a Final Olympic Record.In 1996, Glenn was the first American to win the British Open Sporting Clay...


Bill Keever
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Nan Wang
Wang Nan (sport shooter)
Wang Nan is a male Chinese sports shooter.At the 2008 Olympic Games he finished in twelfth place in the double trap qualification, missing a place among the top six, who progressed to the final round....


Binyuan Hu
Qiang Pan
 Russia Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...


Vitaly Fokeev
Vitaly Fokeev
Vitaly Fokeev is a Russian sport shooter who specializes in the double trap.At the 2004 Olympic Games he finished in joint place in the double trap qualification...


Boris Morozov
Boris Morozov
Boris Ivanovich Morozov was a Muscovite statesman and boyar who led the Russian government during the early reign of Tsar Alexis, whose tutor and brother-in-law he was....


Vasily Mosin
Vasily Mosin
Vasily Mosin is a Russian sport shooter who specializes in the double trap.At the 2004 Olympic Games he finished in nineteenth place in the double trap qualification, missing out on a place among the top six, who progressed to the final round.He then finished third at the 2005 European...

2007  Cyprus Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Daniele Di Spigno
Francesco D'Aniello
Francesco D'Aniello
Francesco D'Aniello is an Italian trap shooter. At the 2008 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the men's double trap event. After realizing he had won silver, D'Aniello was overcome with emotion and collapsed to his knees weeping.-References:...


Claudio Franzoni
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Binyuan Hu
Nan Wang
Wang Nan (sport shooter)
Wang Nan is a male Chinese sports shooter.At the 2008 Olympic Games he finished in twelfth place in the double trap qualification, missing a place among the top six, who progressed to the final round....


Qiang Pan
 United Kingdom Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...


Steven Scott
Steven Scott
Steven Scott is a shooter from Battle who won a gold medal in Commonwealth Games held from 3–14 October 2010 in Delhi, India.He won, with Stevan Walton, the men's double trap pairs event on 6 October 2010.-References:...


Richard Faulds
Richard Faulds
Richard Bruce Faulds MBE , is an English sport shooter, who competed for Great Britain in the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the men's double trap....


Peter Robert Russell Wilson
2009  Slovenia Maribor
Maribor
Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....

 United States United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 United Kingdom Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...


World Championships, Women

This event was held in 1989-2006.
Year Place Gold Silver Bronze
1989  Italy Montecatini
Montecatini
- Places in Italy :* Montecatini Terme, health resort in Tuscany* Montecatini Val di Cecina, village and mining town to the south of Pisa*Montecatini, hamlet in the comune of San Martino in Rio...

1990  Soviet Union Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

1991  Australia Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

1993  Spain Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

1994  Italy Fagnano
Fagnano
Fagnano may refer to*Fagnano Alto, a comune in Abruzzo, Italy*Fagnano Castello, a comune in Calabria, Italy*Fagnano Olona, a comune in Lombardy, Italy*Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano, an Italian mathematician...

1995  Cyprus Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

1997  Peru Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

1998  Spain Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

1999  Finland Tampere
Tampere
Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...

2001  Egypt Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

2002  Finland Lahti
Lahti
Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

2003  Cyprus Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

2005  Italy Lonato
Lonato
Lonato del Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy. Lonato is located in the middle of northern Italy, about half way between Milan and Venice, on the south-west shore of Lake Garda, the biggest lake in Italy.The commune is bordered by those of near Castiglione...

2006  Croatia Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...


World Championships, Women Team

This event was held in 1990-2003.
Year Place Gold Silver Bronze
1990  Soviet Union Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

 Soviet Union Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....


Maya Gubieva
Irina Laricheva
Elena Shishirina
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Ruizhen Lu
Yujin Wang
Weiping Yin
 United States United States of America
Carol Gephart
Audrey Grosch
Denise Morrison
1991  Australia Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

 Soviet Union Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....


Victoria Chuyko
Elena Shishirina
Elena Tkach
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Li Li
Yujin Wang
Weiping Yin
 France France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...


Muriel Bernard
Mauricette Colavito
Gisele Renaud
1993  Spain Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 United States United States of America
Terry Bankey
Deena Julin
Frances Strodtman
 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Anna Maria Di Giovanni
Deborah Gelisio
Deborah Gelisio
Deborah Gelisio is an Italian sport shooter who won a silver medal in Double trap at the 2000 Summer Olympics.-Biography:In career she won also seven gold and three silver medal at ISSF World Shooting Championships....


Zdenka Ratek
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Gao E
Gao E (sport shooter)
Gao E is a female Chinese sports shooter who won two Olympic bronze medals, at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.-Olympic results:-External links:*...


Yujin Wang
Weiping Yin
1994  Italy Fagnano
Fagnano
Fagnano may refer to*Fagnano Alto, a comune in Abruzzo, Italy*Fagnano Castello, a comune in Calabria, Italy*Fagnano Olona, a comune in Lombardy, Italy*Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano, an Italian mathematician...

 Russia Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...


Svetlana Demina
Svetlana Demina
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Demina is a Russian sport shooter, specializing in the skeet shootings event. She won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in the skeet event. She has competed at five Olympic Games: 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 ....


Irina Laricheva
Elena Shishirina
 Finland Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...


Satu Makela
Riitta-Mari Murtoniemi
Satu Pusila
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Gao E
Gao E (sport shooter)
Gao E is a female Chinese sports shooter who won two Olympic bronze medals, at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.-Olympic results:-External links:*...


Yingzi Liu
Yujin Wang
1995  Cyprus Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Deborah Gelisio
Deborah Gelisio
Deborah Gelisio is an Italian sport shooter who won a silver medal in Double trap at the 2000 Summer Olympics.-Biography:In career she won also seven gold and three silver medal at ISSF World Shooting Championships....


Nadia Innocenti
Giovanna Pasello
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Hongping Ding
Yujin Wang
Xing Xu
 United States United States of America
Deena Julin
Kimberly Rhode
Theresa Wentzel
1997  Peru Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

 Italy Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Deborah Gelisio
Deborah Gelisio
Deborah Gelisio is an Italian sport shooter who won a silver medal in Double trap at the 2000 Summer Olympics.-Biography:In career she won also seven gold and three silver medal at ISSF World Shooting Championships....


Nadia Innocenti
Arianna Perilli
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Hongping Ding
Xiaoguang Jiang
Yunxia Wu
 Russia Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...


Elena Kravtchouk
Elena Rabaia
Elena Tkach
1998  Spain Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 United States United States of America
Kimberly Rhode
Deena Minyard
Cindy Gentry
 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Mei Zhu
Gao E
Gao E (sport shooter)
Gao E is a female Chinese sports shooter who won two Olympic bronze medals, at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.-Olympic results:-External links:*...


Hongping Ding
 South Korea Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...


Hye Kyoung Son
Eun Sim Lee
Hyun Ok Jin
1999  Finland Tampere
Tampere
Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...

 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Yafei Zhang
Gao E
Gao E (sport shooter)
Gao E is a female Chinese sports shooter who won two Olympic bronze medals, at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.-Olympic results:-External links:*...


Hongping Ding
 Japan Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...


Yoshiko Miura
Yukie Nakayama
Akane Tahara
 Finland Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...


Pia Julin
Satu Pusila
Riitta-Mari Murtoniemi
2001  Egypt Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Hongping Ding
Qingnian Li
Yafei Zhang
 United States United States of America
Kyndra Hogan
Kimberly Rhode
Elizabeth Schad
 Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei
Chinese Taipei
Chinese Taipei is the designated name used by the Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, to participate in some international organizations and almost all sporting events, such as the Olympics, Paralympics, Asian Games and Asian Para Games...


Yi Chun Lin
Kai Lu Wen
Meng Ying Wu
2002  Finland Lahti
Lahti
Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Hongping Ding
Jing Lin Wang
Yafei Zhang
 United States United States of America
Joetta Dement
Theresa Dewitt
Kimberly Rhode
 Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei
Chinese Taipei
Chinese Taipei is the designated name used by the Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, to participate in some international organizations and almost all sporting events, such as the Olympics, Paralympics, Asian Games and Asian Para Games...


Yi Chun Lin
Kai Lu Wen
Meng Ying Wu
2003  Cyprus Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

 People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...


Qingnian Li
Jing Lin Wang
Fang Chen
 United States United States of America
Kimberly Rhode
Joetta Dement
Kyndra Hogan
 Russia Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...


Elena Rabaia
Elena Dudnik
Liudmila Khokhlova

World Championships, total medals

1  Italy 18 5 12 35
2  United States 10 10 9 29
3  Mainland China 7 15 9 31
4  Australia 5 8 0 13
5  Finland 4 1 3 8
6  United Kingdom 3 2 4 9
7  Soviet Union 2 2 0 4
8  Russia 2 1 4 7
9  Kuwait 1 1 3 5
10  Chinese Taipei 1 1 2 4
11  Spain 1 1 0 2
11  United Arab Emirates 1 1 0 2
13  South Korea 1 0 4 5
14  Early Modern France 1 0 2 3
15  Sweden 0 3 0 3
16  Germany 0 2 0 2
17  Hungary 0 1 2 3
18  Japan 0 1 1 2
19  Canada 0 1 0 1
19  Turkey 0 1 0 1
21  Czech Republic 0 0 1 1
21  India 0 0 1 1
Total 57 57 57 171

Current world records

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Current world records in double trap
Men
Junior Men
Women
Junior Women
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