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Oeberg follows sister's Olympic gold with IBU Youth World Championships title

  • Biathlon

Elvira Karin Oeberg won gold at the International Biathlon Union Youth/Junior World Championships on her birthday - and just days after her sister Hanna sealed Olympic glory in Pyeongchang.

Today I was aiming for clean shooting, but I did not succeed, that upset me, but I had to fight for the


Athens 2004 Paralympic gold medallist Minna Leinonen retires after losing desire to compete

  • Shooting News

Finland’s four-time Paralympian Minna Leinonen has retired from shooting and will not defend her world

I feel that I've given my all to shooting and got everything I ever wanted from it," she told Paralympic.org

decided to have a year off after Rio and give myself enough time to find out if I'll start missing shooting

it feels good to have time and power to study and do many other things that I couldn't do during my shooting

Finland's Minna Leinonen is retiring after 17 years competing shooting, including winning a Paralympic






IBSA confirm appointments of subcommittee chairs

  • Paralympics

The International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Executive Board has confirmed the appointments of a string of subcommittee chairs. 

game.IBSA is the governing body for blind sport ©Getty ImagesBritain's Michael Whapples will head up the Shooting


Sweden claim shock relay gold in final biathlon event at Pyeongchang 2018

  • Biathlon

Fredrik Lindström anchored Sweden to a surprise victory in the men's 4x7.5 kilometres relay as the country secured their maiden Winter Olympic Games gold medal in the event at Pyeongchang 2018 today.

Lindström moved ahead of Norway's Emil Hegle Svendsen just before the prone shooting stage on the fourth


Birmingham standing by to add another rich layer to indoor athletics’ historic legacy

  • The Big Read

The Who, Oasis, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Kings of Leon, Beyonce, Arctic Monkeys, Tina Turner and, of course, Black Sabbath are among the acts who have played at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena, re-branded four years ago as Arena Birmingham. 

Cremorne House led the "tuition and practice of skilful and manly exercises" at The Stadium - that is shooting





Fourcade secures third Pyeongchang 2018 gold medal by leading France to mixed relay title

  • Biathlon

A stunning final leg from Martin Fourcade propelled France to the mixed relay gold as he wiped out a huge German lead to secure his third biathlon medal of Pyeongchang 2018 and fifth Winter Olympic Games title of his career here today.

almost 38 seconds at the fourth leg exchange but caught and passed the German, whose error on the prone shooting

eat into the German's lead.Peiffer seemingly felt the pressure as he missed two shots at his first shooting

never recovered as Fourcade surged to the front.Once the superstar Frenchman shot clean in the last shooting