Carole Cormenier crowned women's trap world champion as four countries book Paris 2024 quota spots

France's Carole Cormenier clinched a dramatic victory in the women's trap final at the ISSF World Championship Shotgun 2022, an Olympic Games Paris 2024 qualifier, in Croatia on Wednesday (28 September) defeating Spain's Fatima Galvez 31–29.

Olympic champion Zuzana Rehak-Stefecekova took bronze despite having dominated the earlier rounds of competition, while Catherine Skinner came fourth.

By finishing in the top two in their ranking matches and qualifying for the final, Cormenier, Galvez, Rehak-Stefecekova and Skinner all booked Paris 2024 quota spots for their countries: France, Spain, Slovakia, and Australia.

Rehak-Stefecekova, who had qualified for the ranking match by topping qualification in the morning, was a perfect 25 for 25 in the ranking match. However, she faltered early in the medal match, missing three of her opening 15 shots to set her back as Skinner was eliminated with five misses. Two further misses in the next series of 10 ensured that the Olympic champion eventually saw her eliminated in the bronze-medal position.

It meant that France's Cormenier and Spain's mixed team Olympic champion Gálvez progressed to the gold-medal round, with the Frenchwoman taking a two-shot lead into the last set of 10. Cormenier missed a shot in the first series of 5 to reduce her lead to just one hit, then the pressure seemed to tell as she appeared to miss a second.

But her coach challenged the call and she was awarded the hit on video review, and when Galvez missed her next hit, the match ended with one target to spare.