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Men's trap
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Men's trap; at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
	Silver medalist Konrad Huber (1950s)
Venue	Issy-les-Moulineaux
Dates	8–10 July
Competitors	44 from 14 nations
Winning score	98 OR
Medalists
	← 1920 1952 →

The men's trap was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fifth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 8 to 10 July 1924 at the shooting ranges at Issy-les-Moulineaux. 44 shooters from 14 nations competed.^[1] A maximum of four competitors per nation were allowed. The event was won by Gyula Halasy of Hungary, a victory in the nation's debut in the event. Silver went to Konrad Huber of Finland, that nation's first medal in the men's trap. The United States, which had earned gold in 1912 and 1920, took bronze this year with Frank Hughes on the podium.

Background

This was the fifth appearance of what would become standardised as the men's ISSF Olympic trap event. The event was held at every Summer Olympics from 1896 to 1924 (except 1904, when no shooting events were held) and from 1952 to 2016; it was open to women from 1968 to 1996.^[2]

Six of the shooters from the 1920 Games returned: sixth-place finisher Robert Montgomery of Canada, ninth-place finishers Albert Bosquet and Émile Dupont of Belgium, and also-competeds George Beattie of Canada (who had taken silver in the event in 1908), Samuel Vance of Canada, and Enoch Jenkins of Great Britain.^[3]

Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, and Spain each made their debut in the event. Great Britain made its fifth appearance, the only nation to have competed at each edition of the event to that point.

Competition format

Shooter faced up to 100 clay pigeons over the course of four stages. Two shots were allowed per clay pigeon.^[3]

The first stage consisted of 20 targets. The second stage had 30 targets again. The third stage had 50 targets, in two series of 20 and one series of 10. Each of the stages used a known-trap, unknown-angle format.^[3]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record
Olympic record	James Graham (USA)	96	Stockholm, Sweden	2–4 July 1912

Gyula Halasy and Konrad Huber tied at 98 for a new Olympic record; Frank Hughes and Robert Montgomery also exceeded the old record, while four shooters matched it.

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
Tuesday, 8 July 1924 Wednesday, 9 July 1924 Thursday, 10 July 1924		First stage Second stage Final stage

Results

The event consisted of two rounds on two consecutive days. In each round every competitor had 50 shots.^[4]

The results of the competitors which were eliminated first are unknown. They are listed in the order as they appear in the official report.

There was an extra, shoot-out round for Halasy and Huber to determine the gold medal. In this extra round both competitors had 10 shots. Halasy scored 10, while Huber scored 9.^[4] There was also a shoot-off for bronze, won by Hughes.^[3]

Rank	Shooter	Nation	Total
	Gyula Halasy	Hungary	98
	Konrad Huber	Finland	98
	Frank Hughes	United States	97
4	Robert Montgomery	Canada	97
5	Louis D'Heur	Belgium	96
6	Samuel Vance	Canada	96
	George Beattie	Canada	96
	Samuel Sharman	United States	96
9	Heinrich Bartosch	Austria	95
9	Louis Deloy	France	95
11	Werner Ekman	Finland	94
	Ole Lilloe-Olsen	Norway	94
	Enoch Jenkins	Great Britain	94
14	Hans Schödl	Austria	93
14	Fredric Landelius	Sweden	93
16	Axel Ekblom	Sweden	92
16	Oluf Wesmann-Kjær	Norway	92
18	Wilford Fawcett	United States	91
19	Eivind Holmsen	Norway	90
	Martin Stenersen	Norway	90
	Gusztáv Szomjas	Hungary	90
	László Szomjas	Hungary	90
	Giacomo Serra	Italy	90
24	Fred Etchen	United States	89
	Georg Nordblad	Finland	89
	John O'Leary	Great Britain	89
	Erik Lundquist	Sweden	89
	Erich Zoigner	Austria	89
29	August Baumgartner	Austria	88
29	Magnus Hallman	Sweden	88
—	Albert Bosquet	Belgium	unknown
	Émile Dupont	Belgium	unknown
	Louis Van Tilt	Belgium	unknown
	Hans Jacobsen	Denmark	unknown
	José María de Palleja	Spain	unknown
	Toivo Tikkanen	Finland	unknown
	Jacques d'Imecourt	France	unknown
	Cyril Mackworth-Praed	Great Britain	unknown
	Sándor Lumniczer	Hungary	unknown
	Nicola Rebisso	Italy	unknown
	Giacomo Rossi	Italy	unknown
	Kurt Riedl	Czechoslovakia	unknown
	František Schuster	Czechoslovakia	unknown
	Antonín Siegl	Czechoslovakia	unknown