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Trap, Open

Date	29 November – 1 December 1956 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Royal Australian Air Force Station, Laverton, Victoria
Participants	32 from 18 countries
Format	200 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.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Points	Day 1 Points	Day 1 Course 1 Points	Day 1 Course 2 Points	Day 1 Course 3 Points	Day 2 Points	Day 2 Course 1 Points	Day 2 Course 2 Points	Day 2 Course 3 Points	Day 3 Points	Day 3 Course 1 Points	Day 3 Course 2 Points
1	Galliano Rossini	ITA	195	74	24	25	25	71	24	24	23	50	25	25	Gold	OR
2	Adam Smelczyński	POL	190	70	23	24	23	73	24	24	25	47	24	23	Silver
3	Alessandro Ciceri	ITA	188	71	24	23	24	69	21	24	24	48	23	25	Bronze
4	Nikolay Mogilevsky	URS	188	73	23	25	25	70	25	24	21	45	23	22
5	Yury Nikandrov	URS	188	71	23	23	25	71	24	23	24	46	24	22
6	František Čapek	TCH	187	69	22	23	24	69	23	23	23	49	25	24
7	Knut Holmqvist	SWE	178	67	23	24	20	63	22	21	20	48	24	24
8	Hans Liljedahl	SWE	177	65	22	23	20	65	22	23	20	47	23	24
9	John Bryant	AUS	176	66	22	22	22	64	24	23	17	46	23	23
10	Robert Pignard	FRA	176	66	23	22	21	64	22	25	17	46	22	24
11	Hans Aasnæs	NOR	176	62	21	19	22	67	22	22	23	47	22	25
12	Ioannis Koutsis	GRE	175	66	23	22	21	66	25	21	20	43	21	22
13	Franco Mignini	VEN	172	60	21	20	19	66	22	19	25	46	24	22
14	Michel Prévost	FRA	171	60	20	22	18	70	24	22	24	41	21	20
15	Zygmunt Kiszkurno	POL	170	61	21	20	20	65	18	24	23	44	23	21
16	Juan Gindre	ARG	170	62	22	23	17	64	22	22	20	44	22	22
17	Earl Caldwell	CAN	169	60	17	20	23	67	21	23	23	42	22	20
18	Joe Wheater	GBR	168	64	19	25	20	62	20	23	19	42	21	21
19	Raúl Olivo	VEN	165	60	21	18	21	61	23	20	18	44	22	22
20	Clement Mudford	AUS	164	60	22	21	17	60	24	20	16	44	21	23
21	Ernest Fear	GBR	162	57	22	19	16	62	21	22	19	43	20	23
22	William Pietersz	COL	155	53	19	19	15	59	20	22	17	43	20	23
23	Tokusaburo Iwata	JPN	155	57	20	19	18	60	23	16	21	38	16	22
24	Enrique Beech	PHI	152	54	17	19	18	54	20	19	15	44	23	21
25	Igor Treybal	TCH	148	55	22	16	17	51	17	17	17	42	23	19
26	Federico Valle	PUR	147	54	18	17	19	59	18	22	19	34	19	15
27	León Bozzi	ARG	146	57	21	15	21	55	17	20	18	34	20	14
28	Moe Fu Kiat	MAL	145	59	22	18	19	51	15	17	19	35	19	16
29	Liew Foh Sin	MAL	140	48	18	15	15	52	16	20	16	40	18	22
30	Ujitoshi Konomi	JPN	140	50	16	20	14	47	17	15	15	43	22	21
31	Fernando Jiménez	PUR	126	46	14	14	18	49	15	14	20	31	17	14
32	Frank Opsal	CAN	118	43	15	15	13	49	16	18	15	26	14	12

Shoot-Off 3-5

Date	1 December 1956
Format	25 targets to determine places 3-5.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Points
1	Alessandro Ciceri	ITA	24
2	Nikolay Mogilevsky	URS	23
3	Yury Nikandrov	URS	22