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Nepal names squad of 384 athletes for South Asian Games

  • OCA

A total of 384 Nepalese athletes will represent their country at the upcoming South Asian Games in Indian cities Guwahati and Shillong, the Nepal Olympic Committee (NOC) has announced.

Bikram Lakhe and Dharma Kumar Shrestha have been appointed as deputy Chefs de Mission.London 2012 shooting


Oeberg seals second IBU Junior World Championships gold as Doherty takes junior men's pursuit glory

  • Biathlon

Sweden’s Hanna Oeberg clinched her second gold medal at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Junior World Championships as she reigned supreme in the women’s junior 10 kilometres pursuit race in Cheile Grădiştei, Romania today.

"Lena was crazy on the skis today, so I knew I had to manage a good shooting to get a win.

"At the shooting range I wasn't nervous, as yesterday, and I felt pretty confident despite the wind.



UAE claim first gold as Japanese run continues at Asian Olympic Shooting Qualifier

  • Shooting

tradition in the double trap event today with a Rio 2016 quota place-earning gold medal at the Asian Shooting

Aldeehani - competing as an independent participant due to his country's suspension from the International Shooting

Sport Federation - taking the silver medal.After shooting 28 in the semi-final, Alkaabi fought back


Leitner claims second gold of IBU Junior World Championships with sprint victory

  • Biathlon

Austrian Felix Leitner picked up his second gold medal of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Junior World Championships as he added the 10 kilometres sprint crown to his individual title in Cheile Grădiştei in Romania today.

“Actually I was not really nervous on the shooting range today, but before the last shot I had to take


RIOU Rector Professor congratulates student Olyunin on historic snowboard cross sprint victory

  • Skiing

Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) Rector Professor Lev Belousov has congratulated Nikolay Olyunin, a student on RIOU’s flagship Master of Sport Administration (MSA) course, on becoming one of the first-ever winners of a snowboard cross sprint event last week.

RIOUOlyunin is joined on the third edition of the MSA course by fellow elite athletes, including Russian shooting



Erdal and Malinovskii secure youth sprint gold at IBU Junior World Championships

  • Biathlon

Karoline Erdal of Norway and Russia’s Igor Malinovskii both sprinted to gold medals at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Junior World Championships as they took victory in the women’s and men’s youth sprint events respectively in Cheile Grădiştei in Romania today.

powered around the course in 20:32.9, with Norwegian Endre Stroemsheim unable to claim gold despite shooting

Malinovskii’s compatriot Viacheslav Maleev coming through to take third.This was in spite of a disappointing shooting




Nearly 600 shooters registered for European Shooting Championship

  • Shooting

A total of 588 shooters have registered to compete in the 2016 European Shooting 10 metre Championship

The competition is scheduled to take place from February 22 to 28, with the European Shooting Confederation

which have 83 and 71 competitors respectively.Mixed team competitions will feature at the European Shooting



Norwegian and German biathletes scoop opening golds at IBU World Junior Championships

  • Biathlon

Norway's Harald Øygard dominated the men's 12.5 kilometres individual youth event on the opening day of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Junior Championships in the Romanian resort of Cheile Grădiştei today.

A superb blend of skiing and shooting proved a class above the rest of the field in the under-19 competition


Wang and Zhang headline field at United States' Rio 2016 table tennis trials

  • Table Tennis

Timothy Wang and Lily Zhang are among five Olympians who will be targeting a place in the United States’ Rio 2016 table tennis team after USA Table Tennis (USATT) announced 81 athletes will compete at their trials.

oldest ever Olympian is Sweden’s Oscar Swahn, who was 72 years, 281 days old when he competed in shooting


Sidhu earns gold and Rio 2016 quota for India as Asia Olympic Shooting Qualifier opens

  • Shooting

India’s Heena Sidhu claimed the gold medal in the women’s 10 metres air pistol event at the Asia Olympic Qualifying competition to earn her country’s ninth quota place at this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

2016, Li’s efforts were rewarded by winning China a berth.A total of 15 events in the three Olympic Shooting

contested at the competition which began yesterday with an Opening Ceremony attended by International Shooting

in November after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) withdrew their recognition of the Asian Shooting

Confederation.With Kuwait’s ban remaining in place, their shooters have been entered as Independent Shooting

“India and Asia are very important to the shooting sport world, and I’m very satisfied with the progress