Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Mixed skeet
The following are the results of the
Skeet competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics. All three medalists had a tied score of 195. A shoot off was held, in the shoot off 1970 world champion,
Konrad Wirnhier of
West Germany hit all 25 birds to claim the gold. Earlier in the competition co-world record holder
Yury Tsuranov of the
Soviet Union disagreed with a ruling on a lost bird, and walked off the field. For his actions he was penalized three birds. This brought his score down to 192, exactly three birds short for the shoot off for the gold medal.
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