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The Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA) [1] serves as the governing body for the sport of American style of trapshooting. The ATA was founded in 1900 and as the American Trapshooting Association. [2] Its first president was John Philip Sousa. [3] [4]
Trap shooting is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting.The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays. [1] [2]Trap shooting is distinguished by the targets being launched from a single "house" or machine, generally away from the shooter, compared with skeet shooting where targets are launched from two "houses" crossing in front of the shooter.
The Minnesota State High School Clay Target League Championship is the largest trapshooting event in the world with over 8,000 student athletes participating in 2018. [ 2 ] In 2019, the USA Clay Target League launched the USA College Clay Target League, a program for 2-year and 4-year postsecondary institutions.
Russian Shooting Union (Strelkovii Soyuz Rossii, SSR), the successor of the Federation and the bullet trap shooting USSR, international member of ISSF. Russian High Precision Shooting Federation, [42] international member of ITCC. San Marino. San Marino Shooting Federation (Federazione Sammarinese Tiro a Segno), international member of ISSF.
A prominent trap and skeet shooter, she was inducted into the Delaware Trapshooting Hall of Fame in 1979, the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in 1983, and the Skeetshooting Hall of Fame in 2002. She was a three-time first-team All-American as selected by Sports Afield magazine and ranked as high as the second-best woman trap shooter in ...
Nora Ross is an American trap shooting champion. She is known for being perhaps the best one-eye shooter in the United States. [1] She's a 34-time All-American, 15-time All American Ladies Captain, and a 30-time Trap and Field Average winner. [2] Ross is the first woman to break 200 in doubles. She was inducted into the Trapshooting Hall of ...
Kimberly Susan Rhode (born July 16, 1979) is an American double trap and skeet shooter. [1] A California native, she is a six-time Olympic medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap.
Olympic trap is a shooting sports discipline contested at the Olympic Games and sanctioned by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Usually referred to simply as "trap", the discipline is also known in the United States as international trap , bunker trap , trench or international clay pigeon . [ 1 ]