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Trap, Men

Date29 November – 1 December 1956 — 9:00
StatusOlympic
LocationRoyal Australian Air Force Station, Laverton, Victoria
Participants32 from 18 countries
Format200 targets in three courses of 75, 75, and 50.

This was the only 1956 shooting event in which the USSR shooters did not win a medal. But they came very close. The gold medal was won by Italy’s Galliano Rossini, who was unchallenged with 195 birds, winning by five. Rossini was a distant descendent of the composer, Giacomo Puccini. Third-place was originally a tie between three shooters – Italy’s Alessandro Ciceri, and Nikolay Mogilevsky and Yury Nikandrov of the Soviet Union. But Ciceri shut-out the Soviets from the medals, winning the shoot-off with 24, to 23 for Mogilevsky and 22 for Nikandrov.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCPointsShoot-Off
1–Galliano RossiniITA195–GoldOR
2–Adam SmelczyńskiPOL190–Silver
3–Alessandro CiceriITA18824Bronze
4–Nikolay MogilevskyURS18823
5–Yury NikandrovURS18822
6–František ČapekTCH187–
7–Knut HolmqvistSWE178–
8–Hans LiljedahlSWE177–
9–John BryantAUS176–
10–Robert PignardFRA176–
11–Hans AasnæsNOR176–
12–Ioannis KoutsisGRE175–
13–Franco MigniniVEN172–
14–Michel PrévostFRA171–
15–Zygmunt KiszkurnoPOL170–
16–Juan GindreARG170–
17–Earl CaldwellCAN169–
18–Joe WheaterGBR168–
19–Raúl OlivoVEN165–
20–Clement MudfordAUS164–
21–Ernest FearGBR162–
22–William PieterszCOL155–
23–Tokusaburo IwataJPN155–
24–Enrique BeechPHI152–
25–Igor TreybalTCH148–
26–Federico VallePUR147–
27–León BozziARG146–
28–Moe Fu KiatMAL145–
29–Liew Foh SinMAL140–
30–Ujitoshi KonomiJPN140–
31–Fernando JiménezPUR126–
32–Frank OpsalCAN118–