How are ties broken in skeet shooting?

The shoot-off before a final:

1. The first athlete is shown one regular double from behind station 4.
2. The tied athletes shoot in turn on station 4, the lowest-ranked first.
3. Each shoots a regular double, high house then low house.
4. The athlete or athletes who miss the most targets after each double are eliminated.
5. Those still tied shoot a reverse double, low then high, then a regular double again, all on station 4, until the tie is broken.

• Time: 15 seconds to call after occupying the station, on an electronic timer.
• Absent: an athlete not in position at the start time is declared absent and takes the lower place.
• Several shoot-offs: the one for the lowest place is shot first.

The countback rule, for places not settled by a shoot-off:

1. Compare the scores in the last round of 25. The higher score ranks higher.
2. If still level, compare the round before that and keep going back.
3. If every round is equal, count backwards target by target from the last target of the last round until one athlete has a miss where the other has a hit.

A place in the final is too valuable to be decided on paper, so those ties are shot out. For lower places a shoot-off would hold up the whole programme, and the countback rewards the athlete who finished the stronger.