Adam Vella

Adam Vella medal table
Sport shooting
Australia
Olympic games
bronze	Athens 2004	Trap
World championships
bronze	Lima 1997	Trap (M)
silver	Lima 1997	Double trap (M)
gold	Barcelona 1998	Double trap (M)
silver	Lahti 2002	Trap (M)
silver	Nicosia 2003	Double trap (M)
silver	Lonato 2005	Trap (M)
Commonwealth Games
silver	Manchester 2002	Trap
gold	Manchester 2002	Double trap (P)
gold	Melbourne 2006	Double trap (P)
gold	New Delhi 2010	Double trap (P)
gold	Glasgow 2014	Trap

Adam Joseph Vella (born June 12, 1971 in Melbourne ) is a former Australian sports shooter in the disciplines of trap and double trap .

successes

Adam Vella took part in three Olympic Games . In 2004 he finished fifth in the trap in Athens with 121 points. In the final he scored a further 24 hits and placed third with a total of 145 points, so that he received the bronze medal. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , he missed another final entry in the trap with rank 15. He finished the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro in twelfth place.

At the 1998 World Championships in Barcelona , Vella won the team title in a double trap. In this discipline he was also vice world champion in Lima in 1997 and in Nicosia in 2003 , as well as in Lahti in 2002 and in Lonato del Garda in 2005 with the trap team. In 1997 he also secured bronze with this. In 2002 he succeeded in winning the silver medal in the trap at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in the individual competition, while he won gold in the pair competition. Both in Melbourne in 2006 and in New Delhi in 2010 , he repeated this success in the pair competition. At the Commonwealth Games 2014 he won gold in the trap singles for the first time.

Vella is married and has two children.

Web links

• Adam Vella in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
• Adam Vella in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )