Skeet, Open

This was the Olympic début for skeet shooting. It is somewhat similar to trap shooting as the shooters used a shotgun to fire at clay discs. But in skeet, the rifle is held at the hip, or mid-torso, until the target is fired and the birds are thrown from two towers above the ground, while trap discs are launched from ground level. In skeet, there is also a variable delay for the discs to be launched after they are called.

Most of the shooters used the Browning over-and-under shotgun, with the German Rottweil the most popular ammunition. At the 1967 World Championships, Germany’s Konrad Wirnhier was the champion, with Soviets Yury Tsuranov and Yevgeny Petrov placing second and third, respectively. On the first day, Chile’s Jorge Jottar led with 99, followed by Petrov, Wirnhier and Italy’s Romano Garagnani with 98. Jottar fell back on the second day, while Petrov, Wirnhier and Garagnani were clean to tie for first at 198, Tsuranov finishing fourth with 196. In the shoot-off Petrov won the gold medal with a clean 25 string, while Garagnani took the silver in a second round of shoot-offs.