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Trap, Open

Date	27 – 29 August 1972 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Schießanlage, Hochbrück, München
Participants	57 from 34 countries
Format	200 targets.

The 1970 World Champion was France’s Michel Carrega, but he was beaten in München by Italy’s Angelo Scalzone who broke the world record with 199. Carrega placed second over the former world record holder, Scalzone’s teammate, Silvano Basagni.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Round 1 Points	Round 2 Points	Round 3 Points	Round 4 Points	Round 5 Points	Round 6 Points	Round 7 Points	Round 8 Points
1	210	Angelo Scalzone	ITA	199	25	25	25	25	24	25	25	25	Gold	WR
2	116	Michel Carrega	FRA	198	24	24	25	25	25	25	25	25	Silver
3	200	Silvano Basagni	ITA	195	24	24	25	25	25	25	23	24	Bronze
4	145	Burckhardt Hoppe	GDR	193	25	25	24	21	24	24	25	25
5	359	Johnny Påhlsson	SWE	193	23	25	24	25	23	25	23	25
6	412	Jim Poindexter	USA	192	24	25	22	25	25	24	22	25
7	50	John Primrose	CAN	192	25	23	22	24	24	25	25	24
8	34	Marcos José Olsen	BRA	191	22	25	24	22	25	24	24	25
9	101	Ricardo Sancho	ESP	191	25	25	23	23	24	22	24	25
10	102	Eladio Vallduví	ESP	191	23	24	23	24	25	24	24	24
11	285	Adam Smelczyński	POL	190	24	23	24	20	25	25	25	24
12	158	Heinz Leibinger	FRG	190	23	24	22	25	25	24	23	24
13	389	Aleksandr Alipov	URS	190	25	21	25	25	23	24	23	24
14	326	Gheorghe Florescu	ROU	190	23	23	25	24	24	24	24	23
15	390	Aleksandr Androshkin	URS	190	25	25	24	23	24	22	25	22
16	24	Guy Rénard	BEL	189	24	23	25	24	24	23	21	25
17	407	Don Haldeman	USA	187	23	24	24	24	21	21	25	25
18	143	Manfred Geisler	GDR	187	23	24	24	24	22	23	22	25
19	292	Armando Marques	POR	187	25	23	24	23	25	21	23	23
20	15	Josef Meixner	AUT	186	24	21	23	23	23	23	25	24
21	129	Ronald Carter	GBR	186	23	23	23	22	24	24	23	24
22	9	Sperry Marshall	AUS	186	23	20	23	23	24	25	25	23
23	243	Fernando Walls	MEX	186	23	23	23	23	25	23	23	23
24	342	Silvano Raganini	SMR	186	22	25	23	24	23	24	23	22
25	128	Brian Bailey	GBR	185	24	23	21	23	23	23	24	24
26	150	Peter Blecher	FRG	185	24	24	22	22	24	23	23	23
27	234	David Alkon	MEX	185	24	25	25	21	24	21	23	22
28	114	Jean-Jacques Baud	FRA	184	24	22	21	24	24	23	23	23
29	49	Jim Platz	CAN	184	24	24	23	25	25	22	19	22
30	325	Ion Dumitrescu	ROU	183	22	24	24	22	23	25	21	22
31	350	Paul Vittet	SUI	182	22	22	25	23	24	21	22	23
32	70	Kim Tae-Seok	KOR	181	22	22	21	23	23	24	23	23
33	88	Egon Hansen	DEN	180	24	24	21	20	24	19	25	23
34	186	Karni Singh	IND	180	21	23	25	22	20	22	24	23
35	287	Grzegorz Strouhal	POL	179	22	21	25	19	24	23	24	21
36	30	Armando Salvietti	BOL	179	24	23	22	22	25	22	20	21
37	347	Vincenzo Lucchini	SUI	178	21	22	23	24	20	22	22	24
38	190	Dermot Kelly	IRL	178	18	23	24	21	22	22	25	23
39	219	Robert Carr-Hartley	KEN	178	21	23	21	25	21	21	23	23
40	385	Fettah Güney	TUR	177	21	19	25	23	20	22	22	25
41	69	Kim Nam-Gu	KOR	177	23	21	23	23	22	23	21	21
42	188	Gerry Brady	IRL	176	21	22	23	25	24	21	19	21
43	340	Guglielmo Giusti	SMR	175	22	21	23	23	21	21	22	22
44	187	Randhir Singh	IND	173	22	22	22	22	22	21	23	19
45	252	Paul Cerutti	MON	171	19	21	21	23	22	23	21	21
46	33	Marco Túllio Miraglia	BRA	171	21	21	22	22	22	23	21	19
47	364	Mounzer Khatib	SYR	170	22	21	22	24	19	22	19	21
48	228	Elias Salhab	LBN	170	18	21	22	21	24	23	22	19
49	267	Juan Jorge Giha Ali	PER	168	21	19	22	22	17	23	22	22
50	365	Joseph Mesmar	SYR	167	22	21	21	19	21	18	23	22
51	218	Brian Carr-Hartley	KEN	165	19	20	22	20	20	20	23	21
52	226	Assaad Andraos	LBN	163	23	21	19	22	18	22	17	21
53	378	Damrong Pachonyut	THA	160	21	22	20	20	20	18	19	20
54	29	Ricardo Roberts	BOL	156	19	19	19	20	19	19	21	20
55	375	Boonkua Lourvanij	THA	145	18	19	15	20	20	21	15	17
56	275	Manuel Valdes	PHI	138	15	19	14	19	13	19	18	21
57	362	Philip Serjeant	SWZ	122	17	17	16	16	12	11	15	18
DNS	81	Nicolás Rodríguez	CUB	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	92	Domingo Lorenzo	DOM	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	93	Riad Yunes	DOM	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	268	Manuel Earnshaw	PHI	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
DNS	300	Song Gi-Hyon	PRK	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–