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Australia should boycott Birmingham 2022 if shooting not added to programme, claims union

  • Birmingham 2022

Australia should join India in threatening to boycott the 2022 Commonwealth Games if shooting is not

Shooting, while not a compulsory Commonwealth Games sport, has been part of every event since Kingston

 Australia won nine medals in shooting at Gold Coast 2018, including three golds, the second-highest

 "At the Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games in 1998, shooting events were held on the island of Langkawi

Belmont shooting range is 80 kilometres from the Gold Coast and no-one thought that was a problem for

 "Obviously if there is no shooting at the Birmingham Games, the funding for top-level shooting





Scott Field: Team GB excitement growing for Tokyo 2020 with less than year to go

  • Inside the Blogs

Amidst the euphoria of this summer’s cricket World Cup and Ashes series, a FIFA Women's World Cup, an epic Wimbledon finals weekend and Shane Lowry winning The Open on home territory you had perhaps have been forgiven for having blinked and missed the "One Year to Go" celebrations ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

places at Tokyo across archery, diving, equestrian, football, modern pentathlon, rugby sevens, sailing, shooting




India Olympic Association to "take a decision" next month on potential 2022 Commonwealth Games boycott

  • Birmingham 2022

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will make a final decision on whether to boycott the 2022 Commonwealth Games when their Executive Council meets next month, secretary general Rajeev Mehta has revealed. 

The IOA have threatened to boycott Birmingham 2022 after shooting was dropped from the schedule."

since Kingston 1966, with the exception of Edinburgh 1970.India has traditionally been strong in the shooting

Shooting has been in the Games for the longest time," she added.

still a way for the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to reconsider its decision and still keep shooting



Benfeito books Tokyo 2020 berth with Pan American Games diving success

  • Lima 2019

Meaghan Benfeito triumphed in the women’s 10 metres platform event at Lima 2019 to secure a berth at next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Hixon and Andrew Capobianco scored 404.13 for bronze.Three gold medals were claimed on the final day of shooting

competition ©Getty ImagesAt the Polígono Las Palmas venue, three gold medals were earned on the final day of shooting

placed second on 48, while Peru's Nicholas Pacheco was eliminated in third place on 40.A clean sweep of shooting


Campriani's Tokyo 2020 ambitions for refugee athletes

  • Tokyo 2020

Three-times Olympic sport shooting champion Niccolò Campriani has undertaken an ambitious challenge of

women, Khaoula and Luna.This weekend, Campriani will take the trio into their first test at the Italian Shooting





Indian athletes warn against boycott of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

  • Birmingham 2022

Indian athletes in several sports have rallied against the potential boycott of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham while conceding it will be difficult to prevent it happening if the Government decides to press ahead with the move.

Support for a boycott of the Games in three years' time in protest at the decision not to include shooting

It will only be right to take a stand and push for its [shooting] inclusion but I still hope we won't

at the 2015 World Championships in Copenhagen, was among others to publicly oppose the boycott.Like shooting

and is set to meet the country's Sports Minister to discuss a potential boycott over the omission of shooting

If you are doing this just for shooting, it is wrong."