Milan Trkulja, the Team CZ Shooting Manager, is introducing a new shooting discipline to be run under auspices of the very successful Ceska Zbrojovka Inc. Shooting program. Starting January 2009, the Team CZ Shooting will engage in the Olympic trap shooting discipline. Reason behind this announcement is the CZ Management effort to help to increase company’s marketing drive in an area of shotgun sales. This is by means of placement of the competitive shooter behind the competitive shotgun on the trap shooting circuit.
Officially referred to only as trap, and also known as international trap, bunker trap, trench or international clay pigeon, the single-target Olympic trap shooting event has a history over a hundred years old. It is considered more difficult than most other trap versions in that the distance to the targets and the speed with which they are thrown are both greater.
Until 1992, the Olympic trap event was open to both men and women. In 1996, it was open to men only, and from 2000 men and women have had separate competitions.
The course of fire is 125 targets in the qualification round for men and 75 for women, and 25 additional targets in the final round for the six best shooters. In 2005, the final rules were changed so that only one shot can now be taken at each target, as opposed to two in the qualification round.
The Team CZ Shooting will be represented on trap shooting circle by young, and a very talented Czech trap shooter, Miroslav Matejik.
Short profile:
Name: Miroslav Matejik
Age: 25
Place of birth: Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic
Place of residence: Zahorovice
Employed at: Ceska Zbrojovka Inc.
Shooting Club: Kometa Brno/Team CZ Shooting
Competition Shotgun: BRNO TRAP COMPETITION
Begin to compete: at the age of 14
Successes: 4 times Czech Junior Trap Champion, 1 x Czech double-
trap Junior Champion, member of the Czech National
Trap Team, rates among the top 4 Czech Trap shooters
Miroslav was introduced to trap shooting at the age of 12 by his father Miroslav senior, who was also a very successful trap shooter him self. At the age of 14 he was accepted to the clays shooting program of the Kometa Brno, the top Sporting Shooting Club widely recognized for producing top clay shooters, this is including World, European and even Olympic Champions.
Miroslav Matějík was competing thorough his entire shooting carrier with the Berretta shotgun, model 682 Gold Team. From now on, his competition gun will be the model BRNO TRAP COMPETITION, produced especially for him by the BRNO RIFLES Company, the subsidiary company of the Ceska Zbrojovka Inc. Uhersky Brod, Czech Republic.