Being in Baku, the time difference for today’s announcement of sports shortlisted for the second stage of consideration for inclusion at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was rather convenient.

of the world, and is a precision-event broadly similar to others already at the Games like archery, shooting

Spain's Miguel Alvarino Garcia sealed European Games men’s individual gold medal,  thrashing Dutchman Sjef Van Den Berg 7-1 as the archery at Baku 2015 came to a conclusion here today.

I was already shooting very well and I was expecting a medal but the fact that it is a gold medal, it

Italy secured two Baku 2015 European Games golds on the final day of competition here, claiming victories in both the mixed team skeet and mixed team 10 metre air rifle events.

Lucie Anastassiou and Anthony Terras secured the bronze medal after taking advantage of some wayward shooting

the podium finishers.Germany's Monika Karsch celebrates with Christian Reitz after winning the final shooting

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A perfect fourth set of three 10s here in scorching sun and gusting, swirling wind secured Germany’s Karina Winter the women’s individual title in the European Games archery competition.

competition which had seen the elimination of Natalia Valeeva, four years her senior, who had been shooting

Germany’s Christian Reitz claimed the men’s 25 metres rapid fire pistol gold medal here today, after confusion surrounded the awarding of the bronze medal.

men's 50m rifle three positions title ©Getty ImagesElsewhere on the penultimate day of European Games shooting

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Australian Jason Day carded a two-under 68 to move to joint-top on the US Open leaderboard at Chambers Bay despite admitting to feeling “groggy” due to drugs he is taking to combat vertigo.

finds himself languishing on one-over.South African Oosthuizen produced the performance of the day, shooting

Serbia’s Damir Mikec produced another supreme display to clinch his second European Games gold medal as he won the men’s 50 metre pistol title to add to his 10m crown here today.

rounded off the podium by beating Danka Bartekova of Slovakia to bronze.Elsewhere on a fascinating day of shooting

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and insurmountable mental strength to claim respective 50 metres rifle 3 positions and double trap shooting

performance, leading after the qualification phase before dominating the final.Combining the three skills of shooting

Hungarian unable to recover from two early misses on a day in which the lack of wind created perfect shooting

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Marketing giants Dentsu Inc. have been appointed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to orchestrate promotional efforts in Japan for the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo.

the IPC acts as the International Federation for.These consist of athletics; swimming, powerlifting, shooting

A bilateral cooperation agreement has been signed between the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC) and National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka, opening up a "new chapter of sports exchange and cooperation".

at Sydney 2000, with a seven-strong team competing across the four sports of athletics, badminton, shooting

Germany’s Henri Junghaenel defeated a stellar field to earn European Games gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone men's event here, and the second gold of the day, in the new event of the mixed team trap, went to the Slovakian pairing of Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova and world champion Erik Varga, who earned an emphatic 27-21 win over Russia’s newly crowned men’s champion Alexey Alipov and Elena Tkach.

Having a competition like this with men and women shooting together is something new for people to see

qualifying and their semi-final, in which they beat Spain 28-24, the Russians seemed destined to be shooting

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Having been in Baku for close to three weeks it feels quite strange to be reaching what I’d perceive to be the twilight of my stay in the Azerbaijani capital at a time when the Baku 2015 European Games is still very much in its infancy.

ImagesHowever, having witnessed medal events in wrestling, karate, gymnastics, taekwondo and, today, shooting

Serbia claimed the men’s and women’s 10 metres air pistol double here today as Damir Mikec and Zorana Arunovic won the respective titles to increase their country’s European Games gold medal tally in the sport to three.

The shooting action continues tomorrow with the men's 50m rifle prone and mixed team trap events.

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National Olympic Committee of San Marino President Gian-Primo Giardi has told insidethegames how they are targeting a first Olympic medal at next year's Games in Rio after shooter Arianna Perilli's historic silver here at the European Games.

He added that, while shooting is unequivocally their strongest sport, shown by a further bronze medal

Sergey Bubka has defended his decision to stand for vice-president, as well as President, of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on the grounds that athletics "is his life" so he is committed to working for the sport he loves in any capacity he can.

indication he fears he will be unsuccessful with his foremost aim.But, speaking today during a visit to the shooting