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Over 330 athletes from 49 countries arrived in Thailand to participate in the inaugural ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup of the year, which offers the last chance to achieve Minimum Qualification Scores before the Games. The first medals will be assigned tomorrow morning (3rd of March).
The 2016 ISSF World Cup in Rifle and Pistol event in Bangkok, Thailand – the first shooting sport world cup stage of the year – has been officially opened at the NSSAT Shooting Range of Bangkok, today.
331 athletes coming from 49 countries (adding up to a total of 522 starts) arrived here in Bangkok to compete in this World Cup Stage, which offers the last chance to Rifle and Pistol shooters to secure their Minimum Qualification Scores before Rio 2016. Ten medal matches are scheduled during the event, which runs from the 2nd through the 9th of March.
The ISSF Technical Delegate Willi Grill welcomed the participants on behalf of the International Shooting Sport Federation, at today’s opening ceremony.
“The ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña and the ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber send their best regards to you all. To be back in Bangkok, four years after our last event here, is a dream that comes true,” said Mr. Grill.
“I would like to thank the Organizing Committee of this competition and the National Shooting Sport Association of Thailand under Royal Patronage for welcoming the shooting sport family with open arms.” Mr. Grill continued. “You’ve worked hard to provide us with excellent conditions to conduct the competition, and I am sure that this will be a successful event. I wish all the participants a successful and fair World Cup!”
“We welcome over 330 athletes and 100 officials here in Thailand,” said the Deputy Governor of the Sports Authority of Thailand, Mr. Nattavuth Ruengves, during the ceremony, “we are grateful to the ISSF for entrusting us to host such an important competition in the Olympic year.”
“We feel honored to organize this event,” added Mr. Tawich Chinbancehon, the President of the National Shooting Sport Association of Thailand, “with the support of the ISSF, we tried to organize the best possible competition!”
The first two medal matches will take place tomorrow, when the 10m Air Rifle Men and the 10m Air Rifle Women finals will be conducted at 11.30 AM and at 1:30 PM (UTC+7), respectively.
Check the full schedule of the World Cup Stage (link here), and follow the competitions on http://www.issf-sports.org
Starting today, the fifteen events of the three Olympic Shooting disciplines will be conducted at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi (IND), where also 35 quota places for Rio 2016 will be awarded.
With a colourful and crowded ceremony, the Asia Olympic Qualifying Competition for Shooting opened yesterday at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi (IND).
Mr. Shri Raninder Singh, Chairman of the Organizing Committee and President of the National Rifle Association of India, initially address the crowd, warmly welcoming the President of the ISSF Mr. Olegario Vazquez Raña, the Vice-President of the ISSF Mr. Gary Anderson, the Secretary General of the ISSF Mr. Franz Schreiber, the Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation Planning and Defence Government of India Mr. Rao Inderit Singh Ji, and the Guest of Honour of the ceremony, His Royal Highness Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck of Bhutan, also the President of the Bhutan Olympic Committee.
“I welcome you all to our beautiful country!” Said Mr. Singh. “I’m absolutely sure that all the athletes and the officials that arrived from the greatest countries will give their best. We are all looking forward to see some splendid performances in the coming days.”
“A very warm welcome to all the participants, especially to the 538 shooters.” Continued President Vazquez Raña. “I’m very proud and happy to be here in the beautiful city of New Delhi for this Olympic Qualifying Competition. India and Asia are very important to the shooting sport world, and I’m very satisfied with the progress of our sport within the Asian continent.”
The President of the ISSF introduced Mr. Rao Inderjit Singh Ji, who officially declared the championship open. “Shooting has always been a sport admired by many people around the world. Today, athletes from Asia come here to participate in a great event unprecedented in the history of our country.” He said.
Mr. D.V. Seetharama Rao, Secretary General of the NRAI, thanked all the guests, participants and performers. A spectacular firework display concluded the ceremony.
The first final of the Asia Olympic Qualifying Competition for Shooting will take place tomorrow at 12:30 PM (UTC+5:30), as 50m Rifle Prone Men athletes battle for the first medals and Rio 2016 quotas. The 10m Air Pistol Women will follow at 1:30 PM, while the Trap Women final will close the first day of competitions at 3:30 PM.
The Russian athlete beat Great Britain’s Tim Kneale in the Gold medal match. Kneale claimed Silver and an Olympic quota place. The Bronze medal and the second spot for Rio 2016 went to Kuwait’s Ahmad Alafasi.
At 43, Russian Federation’s Vasily Mosin finally grabbed one of the few awards he was missing: the World Championship Gold medal in the Double Trap Men event. He did it in Lonato (ITA), where he prevailed over Great Britain’s Tim Kneale in the Gold medal match after they both shot perfectly for the first six doubles.
After two mistakes of the British shooter, however, Mosin built a comfortable lead and never turned back anymore, closing the Gold medal match with 29 hits against Kneale’s 26.
“Since I came here for the first time in 1995 I have been dreaming about winning a championship in Lonato,” said Mosin. “Finally, my dream came true. It’s an amazing feeling to win this title in front of my friends, of my sponsors, and the whole shooting sport family.”
“This range is amazing, but at the same time it’s very difficult. I put a lot of efforts into this competition, coming here 11 days in advance to train and to get used to the facility.” Concluded the Russian athlete.
As Mosin had already collected a Rio 2016 quota place in Al-Ain (UAE) during this year’s World Cup, Kneale pocketed an Olympic spot for his country along with the Silver medal.
In the semifinal round Mosin led the group since the first doubles, and despite missing his very last target he still concluded in 1st position with 28 hits, while Kneale, shuttering 19 of his last 20 clays, climbed into the second position and earned his spot in the Gold medal match with 27 hits.
Another tie-breaking shoot-off between three athletes was necessary to determine the Bronze medal match participants, as Willett, Alafasi and Al-Athba all concluded the semifinal with 26 points.
An early mistake from the Qatari shooter opened the way for the Australian and the Kuwaiti, who took part in a third shoot-off to decide the Bronze medallist after they concluded with 24 hits each. Alafasi, the Silver medallist at the 2014 Asian Championship, won the tie-breaker by 4 hits to 3, collecting the second Olympic quota along with the Bronze.
The 2008 Olympic Gold medallist, United States’ Walton Eller, concluded the semifinal in 6th place with 24 hits.
In the team competition, Kneale, Matthew John Coward-Holley and Matthew French led Great Britain to the Gold medal with a total of 414 points, followed by the Russian Federation’s team (Mosin, Vitaly Fokeev and Artem Nekrasov) with 406. On the third step of the team’s podium, finally, India were represented by Asab Mohd, Ankur Mittal and Sangram Dahiya, with a total of 400 points.
In the Double Trap Men Junior event, China’s Huang Xiaomin claimed the Gold medal after besting Russian shooter Kirill Fokeev in the Gold medal match with a 28-to-27 score. The Junior Bronze medal went to Conner James Gorsuch of Great Britain, who prevailed over another Russian shooter, Kamil Khusaenov, finishing the Bronze medal match with a 27-to-26 score.
The Italian squad composed by Jacopo Dal Moro, Ignazio Maria Tronca and Lorenzo Ferrari collected the Junior Team Gold medal, marking a score of 393 hits, while Russians juniors Fokeev, Khusaenov and Viacheslav Yukhimenko finished in 2nd place with 387. The Junior Team Bronze medal, finally, was awarded to People’s Republic of China, who concluded with 378 hits thanks to the shooting of Gold medallist Huang along with Zhao Shiqi and Cai Jinzhan.
The ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña and the ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber welcomed the President of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), Giovanni Malagò, who visited the range and attended the two finals.
The World Championship will continue tomorrow with the Skeet Men pre-event training, and it will conclude on Thursday with the Skeet Men final, scheduled at 5:15 PM (GMT+2), and with the Skeet Men Junior final at 6:15 PM.
All finals will be broadcasted live on http://www.issf-sports.org and on the Eurovision network.
…800 athletes from 92 countries participate in the event.
800 athletes from 92 countries are going to compete in five Olympic shotgun events from the 10 through the 18 of September, trying to secure 10 Olympic quotas.
800 athletes coming from 92 countries arrived in Lonato, Italy, to participate in the 2015 ISSF Shotgun World Championship, which will assign 10 Olympic quota places in the five Olympic shotgun shooting events (men’s and women’s Trap, men’s Double Trap, men’s and women’s Skeet).
The championship has been officially opened today by the ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña at the Trap Concaverde shooting club of Lonato, at the presence of the ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber, of the ISSF Executive Committee and Administrative Council members, local authorities and representatives of the participating nations.
“Welcome to the ISSF Shotgun World Championship in Lonato!” The ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña said, speaking at the opening ceremony.
“I would like to congratulate FITAV – the Italian Shotgun Shooting Federation – for hosting this championship, and to thank the FITAV’s President Luciano Rossi for the great hospitality.”
“We are very happy to see so many athletes and officials here, today. We wish you all a successful competition!” The President concluded.
“I would like to welcome all athletes and officials here in Lonato. 800 shooter coming from 92 countries arrived here in Italy to compete in this event, setting a new record of participation for an ISSF Shotgun World Championship,” said the FITAV President and ISSF Vice-President Luciano Rossi.
“I would like to thank the ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña for all what he’s doing for the shooting sport, and the President of the Trap Concaverde shooting club Ivan Carella for the excellent work of the organizing committee.”
Williams’s F1 driver Valtteri Bottas, arriving from the F1 GP in Monza, and the three-time canoe Olympic Champion Antonio Rossi, were among the special guests who shot a trap round at the opening ceremony, together with the ISSF Vice-President Luciano Rossi.
The first medals and Olympic quotas will be assigned at tomorrow’s Trap Women event scheduled at 17:30. The Trap Women Junior final will follow at 18:30 (GMT+2).
On Saturday the 12th, the Trap Men and Trap Men Junior finals will be held at 17.15 and 18.15, respectively. Double Trap Men senior and junior shooters will compete on Monday the 14th, starting from 17:30, while the last events – the Skeet Men and Skeet Men Junior finals – are going to be held on Thursday the 17th.
All finals will be broadcasted live on http://www.issf-sports.org
The first ISSF Junior Cup of the year saw over 500 young athletes coming from all over the world competing in Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun events in Suhl, Germany.
Running from June 25th until today, the the 2015 ISSF Junior Cup has just closed in Suhl, Germany.
During the one-week competition, 572 athletes from 44 nations engaged in rifle, pistol, shotgun, and mixed events, adding up to 948 starts.
The Junior Cup, which Cup had debuted last year in the same location, allows athletes that are up to 20 years of age to compete in dedicated events, including both Olympic and Youth Olympic events.
Three young shooters stood out at the competition, securing more than one medal: Russia’s Evgeniy Ishchenko, Switzerland’s Vanessa Hofstetter, and India’s Shivam Suhkla. Ishchenko won the gold at the men’s 50m Rifle Prone, and then collected silver at the 10m Air Rifle. Hofstetter came in third in the women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions, adding then a silver medal won on the lines of the 10m Air Rifle final. India’s Shukla, on his side, pocketed two Gold medals back to back, at the 25m Pistol Men and at the 25m Standard Pistol Men events.
At the end of the competition, it was the Russian Federation that finished atop of the medals’ standings, pocketing an outstanding total of 22 awards, including 13 Gold, 4 Silver and 5 Bronze medals. Switzerland followed in second place, with 10 medals (5 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze), while the junior shotgun team pushed Italy up to the third place, with 3 Gold, 7 Silver and 5 Bronze medals.
Franz Schreiber, the ISSF Secretary General, commented at the end of the event: “I feel very happy, the competition was excellently prepared, and excellently conducted.”
“It’s really a nice atmosphere in Suhl here at the Junior Cup.” He added, saying that he liked the “great mood” of everybody at the competition — juniors, officials, spectators.
“The future are our juniors,” Mr. Franz Schreiber continued. “The youth is creating our sport, and you can see here very well that juniors have their own ideas of how a final should be conducted.”
“If you go here in a final, there’s no silence. There’s a lot of noise, there’s clapping. There’s even horns, trumpets, and everything. And the noise is tremendous, but that’s the way they like it.”
“We should watch them very carefully, and make them the best possible way for the future. The juniors are the ones who create the sport for the future.”
“There are several challenges that we have to fulfill,” The Secretary General said. “But if i look here at the Junior Cup, I don’t have fear of the future because the sport is really growing. The future is, as far as we can see, very bright.”
The Junior Cup will be back in two months — a Junior Shotung Cup will take place from August 21 to August 30 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The ISSF launches its new YouKu channel, with more than 200 videos with dedicated Chinese descriptions ready to watch.
The International Shooting Sport Federation lands on YouKu, China’s most popular video-sharing website with more than 500 million active users every month.
The new ISSF YouKu channel has been launched today, at the address: http://i.youku.com/ISSFofficial.
Shooting sport footage produced by ISSF at its major competitions – including the ISSF World Cup Series and the ISSF World Championships – will be available to the Chinese shooting sport fans on demand right after each event, with dedicated interviews to Chinese champions.
The ISSF’s YouKu channel is the latest development in the ISSF’s video distribution strategy. The International Shooting Sport Federation has already established its presence on the world’s leading video-sharing platform, YouTube, with over 1000 videos and interviews loaded since 2010, and launched a Livestram program this year, broadcasting all the ISSF World Cup medal matches live on the internet.
The ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber said: “The ISSF is constantly working to reach out to a wider audience of shooting sport enthusiast worldwide, and we keep on improving thanks to the communication plan approved by the ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña. We are producing TV footage, photos and stories at each of our major competitions, and we are keen in distributing these contents both through traditional channels and social media.”
“Thanks to our new YouKu channel, the ISSF’s extensive TV production will be available to millions of users in the People’s Republic of China. This does not substitute our efforts in distributing footage through traditional TV channels – we will keep investing on that – but it aims to engage a young audience in a key market.”
The new YouKu channel is another step on the path of renovation of the ISSF’s social media communication strategy. The ISSF website http://www.issf-sports.org remains the main communication gateway of the Federation, which is now present on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, Livestream, YouTube and YouKu, and offers a a dedicated experience to mobile users on Apple and Android platforms.
“New technologies, social media, and mobile devices offer us a great chance to link with the new generations. Shooting is a traditional sport, and our heritage of universality is also our strength. We know where we come from, and we are moving forward with our values. We do not fear innovations.” Mr. Franz Schreiber concluded.
More than 300 athletes from 54 countries competed in the first ISSF World Cup Stage of the season. USA finished atop of the medal standings. Rio 2016 Olympic Quotas went to USA, Italy, Australia and the People’s Republic of China.
Today’s Skeet Men Finals concluded the 2015 ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Acapulco, Mexico, the first step of this year’s ISSF World Cup Series. More than 300 athletes coming from 54 countries competed there from the 2nd through the 9th of March, trying to secure one of the 10 Rio 2016 Olympic Quota Places distributed by the ISSF.
It was USA’s Vincent Hancock, a two-time Olympic Champion, who won the last match, the Skeet Men Finals, today. And he did it in the best possible way: shuttering all targets in the qualifications (when he equalled the world record of 125 hits), then in the semi-final and finally in the Gold medal match, leaving no chances to his opponents.
“It’s exactly what I wanted.” Hancock said, displaying self confidence after hitting 157 targets straight without a single miss. “This Wolrd Cup was the first stepping stone to get to the next Olympic Gold medal.”
The United States of America dominated the first ISSF World Cup Stage of the year, finishing atop of the Medal Standings with 4 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze medals out of 5 events.
Ten Olympic Quota Places, the qualification slots for Rio 2016, were assigned by the ISSF. The US and the Italian teams collected 3 quotas spots each, while Australia and the People’s Republic of China pocketed two each.
“It has been a wonderful competition!” The ISSF President, Olegario Vazquez Raña said, at the end of the last event. “We have to thank the Organizing Committee of this event and its President Jorge Peña Soberanis for making it possible. Acapulco’s shooting range has been renewed for this event and everything run perfectly, as the today’s high scores have proved.”
The ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber said: “The results have been tremendous, and the atmosphere here in Acapulco has been great. We are very happy to see that the changes in the finals’ formats that we’ve introduced after London 2012 are working well and improved the presentation of our sport.”
The ISSF World Cup Series moves now on to Al Ain (UAE), where the second ISSF Shotgun World Cup Stage of the season will be held starting form the 19th of March. The first medal match, the Trap Women Finals, will take place on the 21st of March.
Follow the next events live at http://www.issf-sports.org.
The 2015 ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Acapulco, Mexico, kicks-off today with the first medal match – the Trap Women Finals – scheduled to take place today’s afternoon at 16.30.
The first ISSF World Cup Stage of the season was officially opened yesterday evening by the ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña and by the President of the Mexician Shooting Federation Jorge Alfonso Pena Soberanis, at the presence of the ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber, of the President of the Mexican NOC Carlos Padilla Becerra and of the President of the Mexican Comisión Nacional de Cultura Física y Deporte Mr. Jesús Mena Campos.
Over 300 athletes coming from 54 nations arrived here in Acapulco to compete in the five Olympic events of Shotgun shooting, trying to achieve one of the 10 Olympic Quota Places to be awarded here.
The Trap Women Finals will open the competition, assigning the first medals and quotas at 16.30, today. The Trap Men Finals will follow tomorrow afternoon, while the Double Trap Men Finals will take place on the 5th of March. The Skeet Women and Men Finals will award the last medals and Olympic slots of Acapulco on the 8th and 9th of March.
The Finals will be broadcasted live on the ISSF Livestream channel at http://www.issf-sports.org/pages/livestream.ashx
34 years after his first election, the ISSF General Assembly entrusted Mr. Olegario Vazquez Raña (MEX) for the ninth consecutive time. Mr. Franz Schreiber (GER) was elected in the position of ISSF Secretary General.
The ISSF General Assembly re-elected President Olegario Vazquez Raña (MEX) for another four-year term, this morning. Mr. Vazquez Raña received 165 votes, beating the sole other candidate Sheik Salman Al Sabah (KUW), who collected 128 votes.
Olegario Vazquez Raña – a four-time Olympian and a rifle shooting record-setter – enters his ninth consecutive Presidential term since his first election in 1980.
“Thank you for your loyalty and for your trust.” Mr. Olegario Vazquez Raña said to the Delegates right after his re-election. “You have given me the opportunity to reaffirm my commitment to all sport shooters of the world and to this sport family that I love.”
“You can be certain that for the upcoming four years, changes and developments will continue. We will keep on working on our agenda, to make us stronger, to reach more athletes all around the world, so that our beloved sport will become more attractive to people and more solid in the Olympic movement. I am convinced that with your support the next four years will be really productive, because if we are united the future of our sport will be bright.”
Mr. Franz Schreiber (GER) was elected as the new ISSF Secretary General by unanimous decision of the General Assembly.
“Thank you very much for your support. I am a little speechless. I will do my best to continue working in the way I did, and I will do my best in favor of the shooting sport family.” Mr. Schreiber said.
The 2014 ISSF General Assembly is being held at the Hilton Park Hotel in Munich, Germany, where Delegates coming from 122 Countries, representing 128 Member Federations, for a total of 293 votes, met on the 2nd and 3rd of December to elect all ISSF governing bodies.
Yesterday (2nd of December), the ISSF General Assembly awarded the 2017 ISSF Shotgun World Championship to Moscow (RUS), that beat Gaj-Maribor (SLO) by 204 to 75 votes. The World Championship is to be held at the Fox Lodge shooting range, a top-class ISSF accredited training centre venue.
During the meetings, the ISSF General Assembly received the reports of the ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña and of the ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber, and unanimously approved the report of the ISSF Auditors. The organizing committees of the 2015 Shotgun World Championship in Lonato (ITA), of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and of the 2018 ISSF World Championship in all events in Changwon (KOR) reported on the progresses of their preparations.
The ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña awarded the ISSF Blue Cross – the highest recognition of our Federation – to two special guests: the IOC Member Vitaly Smirnov of the Russian Federation, and the President of the Spanish Olympic Committee Alejandro Blanco.
The 2014 ISSF General Assembly is currently undergoing, as Delegates are called to elect the four ISSF Vice-Presidents and all the governing bodies of the Federation.
ISSF Authorities unveiled today some numbers of the 2014 Season Media Report that will be presented at the ISSF General Assembly, to be held in Munich on the 2nd and 3rd of December.
The TV coverage of the 2014 ISSF World Cup Stages, World Cup Finals and World Championship reached 240 million viewers in over 100 countries, in 2014. More than 100 hours of TV footage were produced by ISSF TV and distributed all over the world, including 30 hours of live transmission at the ISSF World Championship in all Shooting events in Granada, distributed in collaboration with Eurovision. Ten TV broadcasters used the ISSF TV feed live, via satellite, while over 60 TV networks recorded our satellites feeds for delayed playback or downloaded the footage from the Eurovision WorldLink.
Press and on-line news coverage of the 2014 ISSF World Championship in all Shooting events in Granada, Spain, was measured by an independent consulting company, reporting excellent results. Over 600 newspapers from all over the world covered the event, writing more than 3 thousand articles within 10 days, and reaching a potential readership of 1.5 Billion people.
Internet and Social Media have been a key future of the 2014 ISSF communication strategy. More than 200 articles and 2.200 photos were published online on http://www.issf-sports.org, and the Federations’ website recorded 1.6 million visits during the season, 23% more than in 2013.
Videoclips of ISSF World Cups and World Championship were watched 2.8 million times on YouTube, where the International Shooting Sport Federation is offering 1000 videos and interviews recorded on the fields of play. 75.000 Facebook fans interacted with the ISSF throughout the season, and shooting sport content was also offered to thousand of followers on Twitter and Flickr.
“The media coverage of the 2014 ISSF Season has been fantastic.” The ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber said. “There’s a tough competition among sports for TV spaces, and the international sport calendar is really crowded nowadays, but in spite of it we’ve achieved great results.”
“Numbers tell us that we’re on the right path.” Mr. Franz Schreiber continued. “The communication strategy approved by the ISSF President Olegario Vàzquez Raña tuned out to be successful and effective: indeed we are not spending money, we are investing on the future of our sport, and results are paying off.”
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