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Trap, Open

Date	25 – 26 July 1952 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Huopalahden Suomen Metsästysyhdistyksen ampumarata, Huopalahti, Helsinki
Participants	40 from 22 countries
Format	Two courses of 100 targets each.

The UIT World Championships were shot in Oslo shortly before the Olympics. These were won by Knut Holmqvist in a shoot-off with the young Canadian George Genereaux, who was only 17 years old. In Helsinki, Hans Liljedahl (SWE) and Hans Aasnæs (NOR) led with 96, with Holmqvist and Genereaux tied for second with 95 birds. On the second day, Genereaux posted the high score with 97, to defeat Holmqvist by one shot. Holmqvist needed a perfect final round of 25, but missed his 24th bird to finish second. Genereaux’s win was a major surprise, especially since he was using an outdated single-barrel rifle.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Points	Day 1 Points	Day 2 Points	Day 1 Course 1 Points	Day 1 Course 2 Points	Day 1 Course 3 Points	Day 1 Course 4 Points	Day 2 Course 1 Points	Day 2 Course 2 Points	Day 2 Course 3 Points	Day 2 Course 4 Points
1	George Genereux	CAN	192	95	97	24	24	24	23	24	24	25	24	Gold	OR
2	Knut Holmqvist	SWE	191	95	96	22	24	25	24	24	24	24	24	Silver
3	Hans Liljedahl	SWE	190	96	94	23	24	24	25	24	24	21	25	Bronze
4	František Čapek	TCH	188	95	93	24	23	24	24	20	25	23	25
5	Konni Huber	FIN	188	93	95	25	22	21	25	25	24	23	23
6	Ioannis Koutsis	GRE	187	90	97	23	23	22	22	23	24	25	25
7	Galliano Rossini	ITA	187	94	93	25	24	23	22	25	20	23	25
8	Italo Bellini	ITA	186	89	97	21	22	23	23	24	25	23	25
9	Józef Kiszkurno	POL	185	92	93	24	24	24	20	23	24	22	24
10	Ivan Isayev	URS	185	91	94	25	20	22	24	23	25	23	23
11	Hans Aasnæs	NOR	185	96	89	23	24	25	24	22	23	22	22
12	Seifollah Ghaleb	EGY	184	91	93	23	23	24	21	24	24	21	24
13	Roy Cole	CAN	184	94	90	24	22	24	24	23	23	22	22
14	Enoch Jenkins	GBR	183	89	94	23	20	23	23	24	22	23	25
15	Yury Nikandrov	URS	183	92	91	23	22	23	24	22	24	23	22
16	Ivan Ivanov	BUL	182	92	90	24	20	24	24	23	23	23	21
17	Youssef Fares	EGY	181	87	94	21	21	22	23	22	24	24	24
18	André Taupin	FRA	181	88	93	20	24	23	21	20	25	25	23
19	Igor Treybal	TCH	181	87	94	23	24	22	18	22	24	25	23
20	Olgierd Darżynkiewicz	POL	181	88	93	22	23	20	23	25	24	21	23
21	Albert Fichefet	BEL	178	90	88	24	22	22	22	21	22	22	23
22	Laszlo Szapáry	AUT	178	87	91	22	23	19	23	22	24	23	22
23	Kurt Schöbel	GER	175	86	89	23	21	20	22	22	20	22	25
24	Panagiotis Linardakis	GRE	175	84	91	21	19	22	22	23	20	24	24
25	Juan de Giacomi	ARG	175	87	88	21	22	23	21	22	22	22	22
26	Claude Lagarde	FRA	173	88	85	24	20	22	22	19	24	20	22
27	Rafael de Juan	ESP	173	82	91	20	22	20	20	24	22	24	21
28	Gaston Van Roy	BEL	169	78	91	19	22	19	18	23	24	21	23
29	Sven-Erik Rosenlew	FIN	168	83	85	21	23	20	19	23	22	18	22
30	Hristo Shopov	BUL	168	82	86	21	17	23	21	22	21	23	20
31	Allan Christensen	DEN	165	81	84	15	24	22	20	21	20	21	22
32	Georges Robini	MON	165	80	85	22	22	20	16	22	22	20	21
33	Antonio Vega	ESP	164	80	84	22	19	21	18	22	20	21	21
34	Luigi Cavalli	SUI	159	83	76	20	17	25	21	19	18	20	19
35	Charles Lucas	GBR	159	79	80	19	19	22	19	21	24	16	19
36	Pierre-André Flückiger	SUI	159	83	76	23	18	21	21	20	21	18	17
37	Svein Helling	NOR	148	92	56	23	24	23	22	19	20	17	—
38	Marcel Rué	MON	146	76	70	19	22	13	22	19	18	16	17
39	José Ángel Galiñanes	PUR	117	53	64	10	14	15	14	12	16	21	15
40	Fulvio Rocchi	ARG	109	75	34	15	19	19	22	18	16	—	—