Para Trap: Everything you need to know!

For the first time ever, Czechia will host a World Shooting Para Sport (WSPS) World Championships as Brno welcomes the best of the best for the Para Trap Worlds from 13 to 14 September.  

Here is everything you need to know about Para trap. 

It all began in 2017 

Para trap was adopted as a discipline by WSPS in 2017. Lonato del Garda hosted the first Para Trap World Cup in 2017 at Trap Concaverde. 

The Italian city also hosted the first Para Trap World Championships in 2018 and again in 2021. 

Brno will welcome the seventh edition of the World Championships this year at the Shotgun Shooting Range for the Olympic disciplines Skeet and Trap Brno. 

The competition programme features three medal events:  

PT1 seated mixed SG-S 

PT2 standing mixed SG-L  

PT3 standing mixed SG-U 

Locked, loaded & ready to win! 💥 🔫

In Para trap, it’s all about focus, skill, and the perfect shot🎯#ShootingParaSport pic.twitter.com/oF5xIRKu1r

— Shooting Para Sport (@ShootingPara) February 19, 2025

Italian success 

Currently over 120 active athletes from 30 countries participate in Para trap.  

Italy is the most successful nation in the discipline with 27 Para Trap World Championships medals (11 gold, eight silver, eight bronze) since Lonato 2018. 

Spain and Finland (two each), and Australia, Cyprus and Slovakia (one each) are the other five nations that have won gold at the Para Trap World Championships. 

Italy’s Gabriele Nanni (PT3) is the only athlete to have won three gold medals at the Para Trap World Championships (Al Ain 2022, Lima 2023 and Granada 2024). 

Classification 

There are three classes in Para trap shooting. 

Event PT1, Class SG-S: Athletes with poor balance and/or trunk stability, competing from a wheelchair in a standard seated position. Athletes have an impairment in the lower limb(s), but no functional limitation in the upper limbs. 

Event PT2, Class SG-L: Athletes with good balance and trunk function, competing from a standing position. Athletes have an impairment in the lower limb(s), but no functional limitation in the upper limbs. 

Event PT3, Class SG-U: Athletes with good balance and trunk function, competing from a standing position. Athletes have an impairment in the non-shooting arm. 

Historical results 

And here for a bit of history. All Para Trap World Championships medallists. 

Lonato 2018 

PT1 
Gold: Scottie Brydon (Australia) 
Silver: Oreste Lai (Italy) 
Bronze: Neofytos Nikolaou (Cyprus) 

PT2 
Gold: Vesa Jarvinen (Finland) 
Silver: Saviero Cuciti (Italy) 
Bronze: Raffaele Talamo (Italy) 

PT3 
Gold: Francesco Nespeca (Italy) 
Silver: Meliton Antonio Brinas (Spain) 
Bronze: Paolo Bortolin (Italy) 

Sydney 2019 

PT1 
Gold: Oreste Lai (Italy) 
Silver: Juha Myllymaki (Finland) 
Bronze: Allan Ritchie (Great Britain) 

PT2 
Gold: Alessandro Spagnoli (Italy) 
Silver: Saviero Cuciti (Italy) 
Bronze: Raffaele Talamo (Italy) 

PT3 
Gold: Francesco Nespeca (Italy) 
Silver: Mirko Cafaggi (Italy) 
Bronze: Emilio Poli (Italy) 

Pedro Gomez Albendea 🇪🇸 takes the World Champion title in front of a home crowd! 😍

🎯 Shotgun PT1 - Mixed Trap Seated SG-S

🥇 Pedro Gomez Albendea 🇪🇸
🥈 Thomas Hoefs 🇩🇪
🥉 Jaroslav Klimes 🇨🇿

🔗 Full results: https://t.co/AFmMCuNJTx#ShootingParaSport #Granada2024 pic.twitter.com/rndt2wsdzN

— Shooting Para Sport (@ShootingPara) June 4, 2024

Lonato 2021 

PT1 
Gold: Neofytos Nikolaou (Cyprus) 
Silver: Oreste Lai (Italy) 
Bronze: Mohammed Alhebsi (UAE) 

PT2 
Gold: Ignacio Javier Oloriz (Spain) 
Silver: Vesa Jarvinen (Finland) 
Bronze: Antonino Ventre (Italy) 

PT3 
Gold: Emilio Poli (Italy) 
Silver: Francesco Nespeca (Italy) 
Bronze: Meliton Antonio Brinas (Spain) 

Al Ain 2022 

PT1 
Gold: Oreste Lai (Italy) 
Silver: Abdolreza Tavasolikhah (Iran) 
Bronze: Keith White (Great Britain) 

PT2 
Gold: Vesa Jarvinen (Finland) 
Silver: Filip Marinov (Slovakia) 
Bronze: Saviero Cuciti (Italy) 

PT3 
Gold: Gabriele Nanni (Italy) 
Silver: Adrian Castillo Becker (Spain) 
Bronze: Francesco Nespeca (Italy) 

Lima 2023 

PT1 
Gold: Davide Fedrigucci (Italy) 
Silver: Juha Myllymaki (Finland) 
Bronze: Pedro Gomez Albendea (Spain) 

PT2 
Gold: Fabrizio Cormons (Italy) 
Silver: Raffaele Talamo (Italy) 
Bronze: Ignacio Javier Oloriz (Spain) 

PT3 
Gold: Gabriele Nanni (Italy) 
Silver: Adrian Castillo Becker (Spain) 
Bronze: Ahmad Buhaleeba (UAE) 

Granada 2024 

PT1 
Gold: Pedro Gomez Albendea (Spain) 
Silver: Thomas Hoefs (Germany) 
Bronze: Jaroslav Klimes (Czechia) 

PT2 
Gold: Filip Marinov (Slovakia) 
Silver: Fabrizio Cormons (Italy) 
Bronze: Vesa Jarvinen (Finland) 

PT3 
Gold: Gabriele Nanni (Italy) 
Silver: Adrian Castillo Becker (Spain) 
Bronze: Mirko Cafaggi (Italy)