Malta missed out on a medal in the women's trap event - the first time this competition has been held at the GSSE.

Kathryn Cassar finished a distant fifth on 70 targets, while Rebecca Madyson finished fourth. The latter had to bow out to Georgia Konstantidinou of Cyprus who won a shoot-out 2-1. Earlier, both shooters were involved in a very tight battle for third place, with first Rebecca and then the Cypriot girl, in the lead. At the final shot, Rebecca was leading the Cypriot girl by one clay target. The latter did not miss and levelled before Rebecca's effort. The Maltese girl missed and that is why the shoot-off became necessary.

At the end of competition, Madyson said she was disappointed with her performance. She added that she had no excuses except that in that final shot before the shoot-off, the clapping of hands for the Cypriot girl (on hitting the last target) should not have been allowed. She added that she will now look forward to represent Malta in next year's Commonwealth Games in India.

Both Madyson and Cassar had an indifferent start to the competition.

In the opening round, Madyson started on a wrong note but recovered to finish third with 22 clay targets. Cassar, meanwhile, had a strong start, but then faded and finished joint fifth on 20 clays.

Daniela del Din and Alessandra Perilli of San Marino led the standings with 24 clays targets. No doubt they were in a class of their own and it was no surprise they went on to dominate the event winning quite comfortably.

In the second round, Kathryn Cassar showed improvement with an excellent round of 223, but Madyson dropped back one place to fourth after a poor round of 19.

At the end of the round, Del Din and Perilli also missed three targets each, but still led the field on 46 clay targets each. Cassar was third on 43 and Madyson joint fourth on 41.

Both Maltese shooters had a disastrous third round. Madyson had a score of 19 targets, while Cassar fared even worse with just 16. This meant that Madyson was back in third place on 60 and Cassar dropping back to joint fourth with Konstantinidou of Cyprus on 59 each.

Del Din had a good round of 24 to go on 70 targets, while Perilli retained second place on 68 after a round of 22.

The final round was disastrous for all the six competitors as the wind had its say. Even the top two shooters had a poor result of 20 targets each, while Konstantidinou had 15, Madyson 14, Cassar and Filippou just 11 each.