Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Mixed trap

This was the 12th appearance of 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.[3]

Seven of the top 10 shooters from the 1972 Games returned: silver medalist Michel Carrega of France, bronze medalist Silvano Basagni of Italy, fourth-place finisher Burckhardt Hoppe of East Germany, fifth-place finisher Johnny Påhlsson of Sweden, seventh-place finisher John Primrose of Canada, eighth-place finisher Marcos José Olsen of Brazil, and tenth-place finisher Eladio Vallduvi of Spain. Primrose had also been in the top 10 in 1968. Adam Smelczyński of Poland made his sixth appearance in the event; he had taken silver in his first, in 1956. The three World Champions since the last Games were Aleksandr Androshkin of the Soviet Union (1973), Carrega (1974), and Primrose (1975).[2]

Andorra, Guatemala, Iran, Papua New Guinea, and Singapore each made their debut in the event. Great Britain made its 12th appearance, the only nation to have competed at each edition of the event to that point.

The competition used the 200-target format introduced with the return of trap to the Olympics in 1952. Only a single round of shooting was done, with all shooters facing 200 targets. Shooting was done in 8 series of 25 targets. The first three series (75 shots) were on day 1, the next three (75 shots) on day 2, and the final two series (50 shots) on day 3.[2]

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

World record	Angelo Scalzone (ITA)	199	Munich, West Germany	27–29 August 1972
Olympic record	Angelo Scalzone (ITA)	199	Munich, West Germany	27–29 August 1972

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Cerutti was disqualified after it was discovered he had been taking amphetamines. The stimulants didn't help his performance - he finished 43rd out of a field of 44.[4]

Rank	Shooter	Nation	Score	Notes
	Donald Haldeman	United States	190
	Armando Marques	Portugal	189
	Ubaldesco Baldi	Italy	189
4	Burckhardt Hoppe	East Germany	186
5	Aleksandr Androshkin	Soviet Union	185
6	Adam Smelczyński	Poland	183
7	John Primrose	Canada	183
8	Bernard Blondeau	France	182
9	Jacques Colon	Belgium	182
10	Johnny Påhlsson	Sweden	181
11	Esteban Azcue	Spain	181
	Charvin Dixon	United States	181
	Marcos José Olsen	Brazil	181
14	Aleksandr Alipov	Soviet Union	180
15	Richard Flynn	Ireland	179
16	Jitsuka Matsuoka	Japan	178
	Josef Meixner	Austria	178
18	György Gruber	Hungary	177
	Toshiyasu Ishige	Japan	177
	Malcolm Jenkins	Great Britain	177
21	Silvano Basagni	Italy	175
	Leo Franciosi	San Marino	175
	Randhir Singh	India	175
	Eladio Vallduvi	Spain	175
25	Susan Nattrass	Canada	173
	Nikolaus Reinprecht	Austria	173
	Peter Wray	Australia	173
28	Peter Boden	Great Britain	169
29	Justo Fernández	Mexico	168
	Silvano Raganini	San Marino	168
31	Michel Carrega	France	167
32	Hugo Dufey	Chile	166
33	Joan Tomas	Andorra	162
34	Pavitr Kachasanee	Thailand	160
35	Trevan Clough	Papua New Guinea	159
	Esteve Dolsa	Andorra	159
37	Fernando Walls	Mexico	158
38	Eduardo Echeverría	Guatemala	156
39	Damrong Pachonyut	Thailand	153
40	Frank Oh	Singapore	152
41	Mohammad Alidjani-Momer	Iran	150
42	Marcel Rué	Monaco	141
43	Houshang Ghazvini	Iran	71	5 rounds[5]
—	Paul Cerutti	Monaco	129	DPG