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New ISSF President still has lot of work to get shooting back on Commonwealth Games programme at Birmingham

  • Birmingham 2022

Shooting will still need to do a lot of persuading if it is to convince organisers of the 2022 Commonwealth

The newly-elected International Shooting Sport Federation President, Russia's richest man Vladimir Lisin

 In that scenario, among the events that could be sacrificed may be the Shooting Fullbore Rifle

 They will join shooting in making presentations, along with archery and disability table tennis


Norway claim first win of new IBU World Cup season as France clinch mixed relay victory

  • Biathlon

Norway claimed the first win of the new International Biathlon Union World Cup season today as their pair of Thekla Brun-Lie and Lars Helge Birkeland won the single mixed relay in Pokljuka.

were Ukraine's world silver medallist Anastasiya Merkushyna and Arten Tyshchenko, who managed the best shooting

round.On the final leg Austria's Eder attacked on the tracks but was uncharacteristically slow in the shooting


Italy awarded 2019 ISSF World Shotgun Championship

  • Shooting

Italy secured consolation for Luciano Rossi’s narrow defeat in yesterday's International Shooting Sport

timing of the event in early July follows immediately on from the 2019 European Games in Minsk at which shooting

is a participating sport.Daniele Ghelfi, a member of the Italian Skeet Shooting Federation, promised


New ISSF leadership to visit Birmingham to support shooting’s Commonwealth Games push

  • Birmingham 2022

The new International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) leadership will visit the United Kingdom next

week to promote shooting sport’s case for a place at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Shooting is one of a number of sports - the others being beach volleyball, disability table tennis, archery

of the five might be accepted.A preliminary decision is expected in mid-January.Bisley, which staged shooting

a lack of a suitable venue nearby.The decision sparked controversy and a furious response from the shooting

has featured at every Commonwealth Games since Kingston 1966, with the exception of Edinburgh 1970.Shooting



ISSF reports deficit for 2017 as foreign exchange losses and salaries rise

  • Shooting

A more than 60 per cent jump in expenditures pushed the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF

total to €825,400 (£732,400/$933,700) - an increase of 21 per cent.Labour costs at the International Shooting

than 82 per cent of ISSF income in 2017.This figure underlines emphatically how important retaining shooting



Vázquez Raña elected ISSF Honorary President as he steps down from Presidency after 38 years

  • Shooting

Olegario Vázquez Raña was elected Honorary President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (

made clear in a personal address, delivered in Spanish, that he would maintain close ties with the shooting

presented to officials deemed to have made especially significant contributions to the development of shooting

Germany.Vázquez Raña used his address chiefly to reminisce about his long career, recalling at one point how shooting



Lisin elected ISSF President following narrow victory over Rossi

  • Shooting

Vladimir Lisin of Russia has been elected President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF

votes - 148 to 144.The Russian - who now faces the task of reuniting the body and then cementing shooting

a less than wholehearted endorsement of the wealthy steel tycoon, who has been head of the European Shooting

as ISSF President after 38 years at the helm ©ISSFOn what was by any yardstick a momentous day for shooting

Shooting is my life," Rossi added.The changing of the guard was made concrete in the day’s final session


New ISSF President set to be crowned after 38 years under one man

  • Shooting

A new era will dawn for shooting sport here tomorrow when Mexico’s Olegario Vázquez Raña steps down from

the Presidency of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) after nearly four decades.

straight two-way scrap on the eve of the vote today, when Boutros Jalkh, President of the Lebanese Shooting

Member as Executive Committee Member," the document read.A press release from the Italian Skeet Shooting

Luciano Rossi - will be elected to succeed Olegario Vázquez Raña as President of the International Shooting


Vázquez Raña "happy" as he prepares to hand over ISSF reins after nearly four decades

  • Shooting

Olegario Vázquez Raña can anticipate an emotional day tomorrow.

the 83-year-old Mexican entrepreneur will finally step down from the Presidency of the International Shooting

The former Olympic shooting athlete takes satisfaction from being able to "get shooting sport to be among

All of my family, my two daughters, my son, my wife and my nine grandchildren have been involved in shooting

And I will watch some shooting sport on the internet."

Jacques Rogge was here and my grand-daughters had their shooting accreditations around their necks."