How are ties broken in trap shooting?

The shoot-off before a final:

1. A left and a right target are shown from each of the five stations.
2. The tied athletes line up behind station 1, the lowest-ranked shooting first.
3. Each in turn steps on, loads one cartridge and shoots one target. Only one shot is permitted.
4. If the tie remains after everyone has shot on station 1, they all move to station 2 and repeat.
5. The targets alternate: station 1 left, station 2 right, station 3 left, station 4 right, station 5 left, then station 1 right and so on.

• Time: 12 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.