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Gil secures skeet gold to claim first ISSF World Cup medal in Larnaca

  • Shooting

Argentina's Federico Gil secured his first International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup medal

-time World Cup medalist Georgios Achilleos of Cyprus to stun the home crowd at the Larnaca Olympic Shooting

This is a special day for me, I have been shooting since I was eight and this is my first World Cup medal


Para-taekwondo seminar held in Americas to boost profile of sport

  • Para-Taekwondo News

The first international Para-taekwondo seminar in the Americas took place in Lima with the aim of raising awareness of the sport across the continent.

hoped that with more support they will be able to replicate that at Paralympic level.Badminton and shooting


Wei beats Rhode to claim women's skeet gold at ISSF World Cup

  • Shooting

Kimberly Rhode of the United States to win the women's skeet event on the opening day of the International Shooting

the event at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, hit 54 targets to take gold at the Larnaca Olympic Shooting





Kuwait Shooting Federation ban lifted by ISSF after successful CAS appeal

  • Shooting

Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled in favour of the country in a case against the International Shooting

The ruling means that the Kuwait Shooting Federation will no longer be suspended from the ISSF and athletes

Government subsequently took over the running of most national sporting bodies including the Kuwait Shooting

the ISSF, but the body is listed under active members of the world governing body.The name of Kuwait Shooting

Confederation published by the Kuwait Shooting Federation ©KSCFormer Kuwaiti Sports Minister Sheikh

Sports Law.Sheikh Salman was a former ASC President who stood unsuccessfully for the International Shooting




Los Angeles 2024 reveal images of proposed Valley Sports Park

  • Paris 2024

Los Angeles 2024 has released images of proposed Olympic and Paralympic venue the Valley Sports Park as the third part of its "virtual venue tour".

the first time if Los Angeles defeats sole rival Paris.Equestrian events, as well as canoe slalom and shooting


IOC Executive Board member promises 50-50 gender equality at Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have promised to ensure full gender equality on a 50-50 basis at the 2020 Games in Tokyo, an Executive Board member has proclaimed.

July in Lausanne.Many International Federations have prioritised gender equality.Canoeing, rowing and shooting

have each proposed cutting male events to make way for female or mixed ones.In shooting, mixed team


Paris 2024 praise security services after Champs-Élysées gun attack

  • Paris 2024

Paris 2024 have praised the efforts of security services after a policeman was shot dead and two others wounded in a gun attack on the Champs-Élysées in the French capital last night.

Election, scheduled to be held on Sunday (April 23) and happened amid heightened security in Paris.The shooting


Nick Butler: Changing the Olympic programme is rather fun but a classic example of sport politics at play

  • Inside the Blogs

Whisper it quietly, but in the spirit of festivities I am going to begin with some rare praise for the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

every proposal for change is fraught with difficulty.Federations representing canoeing, rowing and shooting

Rowing are scrapping the lightweight men’s four for an open-weight women’s events while shooting are

50m pistol and double trap with three mixed team competitions.All three were tough decisions and the shooting

seems to be having the impact of a bullet ripping through the heart of the sport.Canoeing, rowing and shooting

specific countries makes this more trouble than it is worth.An IOC suggestion for the International Shooting



ISSF accuse own vice-president of "lies" over laser-gun claims

  • Shooting

International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) vice-president Luciano Rossi has been accused by the worldwide

strongly-worded statement released today, the ISSF said the Italian had "attacked the 2020 Olympic shooting

Italian wrote that the pair "discussed the use of laser guns with the IOC as [the] possible future of the shooting

sports".Rossi, who is the President of the Italian Shooting Federation, also claims his "longstanding

will be for the Italian.Reports in Italy claim the letter, which criticises the alterations to the shooting

ISSF authorities explained that there are no laser systems that could be used for ISSF shooting and that