322 best European athletes from 48 nations are taking part in the 2nd European Games in Minsk, Belarus. They are competing for the right to ascend the podium and for 12 Quota Places for Tokyo-2020 – one in each individual Olympic event. The first winners of the competitions were determined on Saturday in 10m Air […]
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Commonwealth Games 2022 Will Not Include Shooting Sports
The ISSF learned with great regret the decision of the Birmingham Organizing Committee of the Commonwealth Games 2022, that the Shooting Sports would not be included in the program for the Games. A large number of countries and territories will now not have the opportunity to send their best athletes to Birmingham. Most importantly, many […]
Records Set In Munich As The Sport Looks To The Future
The Olympic Shooting Range hosted the highest ever number of participating nations in a ISSF World Cup, with 96 countries taking part. There was also a record number of countries taking part in the new Mixed Team formats; 76 in Air Rifle and 72 in Air Pistol – 72. Overall there were 902 athletes competing in Munich and […]
India Take Fifth Gold At Munich World Cup
It was Saurabh’s second gold of the week, having already won the men’s final, breaking his own world record. Team India also added a silver in Munich to take their overall haul to 5 gold medals and 1 silver. Ukraine were unable to beat the Indian teeangers; former Olympic Champion Olena Kostevych and Oleh Omelchuk weren’t able […]
World Cup Gold Medal For Team India 1 In The 10M Air Rifle Mixed Team Event In Munich
On the last day of the World Cup competition in Munich Anjum Moudgil, the silver medalist of the 2018 World Championships in Changwon, and Singh Divyansh Panwar, the silver medalist of the 2019 World Cup in Beijing, defeated their compatriots, winning with a landslide victory of 16 points to 2. The India 2 team won […]
Anna Korakaki From Greece Wins Gold In The 10M Air Pistol Event In Munich
The Rio 2016 Olympic Champion Anna Korakaki from Greece won Gold in the 10m Air Pistol Women’s Final at the ISSF World Cup in Munich. In a closely contested final Anna snatched the victory from China’s Wei Qian with the last shot. Wei won both a silver medal and the quota for the Olympic Games […]
Teenager Grabs Gold And Claims New World Record In Munich
The Indian athlete’s 246.3 in the final was 1.3 better than his score when he took World Cup gold on home soil in New Dehli earlier this year., Russia’s Artem Chernousov took the silver and Wei Pang from China was the bronze medallist. Both Pang Wei and his team mate Wu Jiayu, who finished fourth, […]
Czech Teenager Takes Top Spot At World Cup In Munich
19 year old Filip Nepejchal has won Gold in the 10m Air Rifle Final in Munich, making it a hat trick of World Cup career victories in the event. Nepejchal was in a tight battle for the top spot with Croatian athlete Petar Corsa, but five very strong shots at the end of the final […]
Apurvi Chandela Wins Second World Cup Gold Medal
Apurvi Chandela from India won the 10m Air Rifle Women’s Final at the 2019 ISSF World Cup in Munich today having, only won her first World Cup Gold medal earlier this year on her home soil in New Delhi. Chandela scored 633.0 points in qualification, where she was ranked first, and 251.0 points in the […]
39 Nations From 5 Continents Have Already Secured Olympic Places
A total of 66 Quotas were awarded in 2018, 48 of which were won at the World Championship in Changwon Korea, and 18 at the American Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico. A further 47 places were awarded in 2019 at the ISSF World Cups in New-Delhi (14), Acapulco (8), Al-Ain (8) and Beijing (17). The continental league […]