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Paralympic shooter Jonsson serves one-month ban for positive drugs test

  • Shooting News

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has revealed that Swedish Para-shooting athlete Philip Jonsson

provided on April 27 of this year.He provided the sample after competing at the Szczecin 2017 World Shooting

 certificate was not valid at the time of the test.Philip Jonsson tested positive at the World Shooting

Para Sport Grand Prix in Polish city Szczecin ©World Shooting Para Sport/FacebookFollowing analysis


Oosthuizen claims gold medal for South Africa at UIPM Laser-Run World Championships

  • Modern Pentathlon

Pieter Oosthuizen justified his pre-event billing as he claimed the gold medal in the men's race in front of his home crowd at the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) Laser-Run World Championships in Cape Town.

03sec at the Cape Town Stadium.Oosthuizen was pushed all the way at the event, which combines laser shooting

 "The conditions were a little bit tough and the wind made shooting difficult."



World Taekwondo President pays tribute at site of Las Vegas shooting

  • Taekwondo

World Taekwondo (WT) President Chungwon Choue visited the site of the deadly Las Vegas shooting and laid

crowded music festival, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds in what is being dubbed "the deadliest shooting

 Fifty-eight people have been confirmed dead following the shooting ©Getty ImagesChoue also left

nbsp;"The worst of humanity bought out the best," said Choue, noting how passers-by assisted when the shooting




Double Olympic shooting champion Diamond succeeds in overturning gun ban

  • Shooting

Australia's two-time Olympic shooting champion Michael Diamond has succeeded in his appeal against three

months, but banned from owning or using firearms for 10-years.The ban would have effectively ended his shooting

due to the initial case.He would need to apply to have his firearms licence returned to resume his shooting

Shooting Australia has today become aware that Olympic shooting gold medallist Michael Diamond has been

successful in an appeal against his May firearms convictions," a Shooting Australia (SA) statement read

Shooting Australia’s focus remains the development of top-level athletes for now and the future; the


US Open champion among USOC Best of September nominees

  • PASO

The United States Olympic Committee has announced its nominees for the Best of September Team USA awards.

Championships title, while Dania Vizzi is named after she won the women's skeet gold medal at the International Shooting


Pistorius family threaten legal action against filmmakers

  • Athletics News

The family of Oscar Pistorius have described a film based on the life of the South African sprinter as a "gross misrepresentation of the truth" and have warned they will take legal action.

The six-time Paralympic champion was sentenced to five years in jail in 2014 for shooting dead his girlfriend


Guernsey announce first selections for Gold Coast 2018

  • Gold Coast 2018

Guernsey has selected its first seven athletes for next year's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast.

 Besides the sports already selected, they also hope to be represented in badminton, bowls, shooting




South Korea's Lee wins R4 gold at World Shooting Para Sport World Cup in Osijek

  • Shooting News

South Korea’s Jiseok Lee captured his first win of the World Shooting Para Sport World Cup season after

completed the podium with 219.2 points.Five medal events were held across the first three days of the World Shooting

Para Sport World Cup in Osijek ©World Shooting Para Sport/FacebookThe R7 men’s 50m rifle three positions

elimination.Instead, the UAE’s Saif Alnuaimi recorded his first career individual victory at a World Shooting


Olympic Day celebrated in Cyprus

  • EOC

The Cyprus Olympic Committee (COC) celebrated the "Olympic Day 2017” with an event staged at its headquarters, Olympic House, in the island's capital, Nicosia.

 Andri Elefheriou, who finished seventh in skeet shooting at and Rio 2016 participant, and