Standing shooting in the Olympic Games program

     The first international competition in this subspecies of shooting sport took place in 1900, and was held in Paris. It was then that benchrest shooting was included in the program of the revived Olympic Games. At the first competitions about 400 live pigeons were used as targets and for reasons of humanity this discipline was abandoned in 1904.

     During the 1908 Games throwing machines for bench shooting were usedthrowing clay skeet. Before World War II from 1928 to 1936 and in the post-war year of 1948 there was no competition in this discipline due to lack of funds. At the next Olympics, held in 1952, the individual competition resumed. Since 1996, the women's and men's competitions have been held separately.

Varieties of benchrest shooting

     Flying target shooting competitions are a type of shooting sport and are conducted according to the rules established by the respective Federation (ISSE). Its Olympic disciplines include the following varieties:

• Stand Round (Skeet). The athlete during the exercise moves from one place to another, there are eight of them in total. His task is to hit the targets thrown by skeet throwing machinesThey are set up in protected rooms called tower and booth. The exercise starts at the command of the athlete performing it, and the delay in throwing the skeet can be up to three seconds.
• Trench Stand (Gangway). The skeet is thrown forward or sideways, the directions are changed randomly by a special program. This significantly complicates the shooter's task.
• Trench Stand (Double Trap). The exercise is performed in the same way as the previous one, the difference is that the skeets are thrown out of the machine two at a time. To hit them the shots are made in duplicate. Since 2004 in this discipline, the rules provide for a delay of up to one second for the ejection of the target.

     Sporting and hunting shooting at a flying target - sporting is very spectacular, especially during the final competitions. To increase the interest of the public and to exclude errors in judging, special skeet designs are used. With a successful shot, a cloud of brightly colored powder of red, and in some cases yellow, is formed.