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Details announced of first multi-sport preparation camp on 1,000 days road to Rio 2016

  • Rio 2016 Paralympics

By Nick ButlerDecember 11 - Details of the first in a series of multi-sport preparation camps to support athletes in the final 1,000 days of their preparations for Rio 2016 have been announced by the British Paralympic Association (BPA).

from ten sports will attend - consisting of athletics, boccia, cycling, canoeing, triathlon, rowing, shooting


Glasgow 2014 fires starting gun for construction on shooting venue

  • Glasgow 2014

10 - Construction work is underway to prepare the Barry Buddon range in Carnoustie for hosting the shooting

location is primarily used as a Ministry of Defence (MOD) Training Centre and hosted full bore rifle shooting

Barry Buddon will be a world-class venue for the shooting competition at the Games and represents an

story at [email protected] Related storiesAugust 2013: Satellite Village set-up for shooting


David Owen: Ryan Giggs in­­­ the pantheon of sporting veterans

  • Inside the Blogs

oldest Olympic gold medallist, Sweden's Oscar Swahn, was 64 when he won his third and last Olympic shooting

101 years ago.Oscar Swahn is the oldest Olympic gold medallist, having won his third and last Olympic shooting

world chess championship for the final time at 60, and Swahn, the aged Olympian, whose speciality was a shooting


Former Boomer's guard joins Basketball Australia

  • Basketball

By Paul OsborneDecember 3 - Brad Davidson has been appointed the new national shooting coach and talent

through scholarship programmes and nationally targeted athletes.He will also help in delivering national shooting

Quite simply, our percentages need to improve, not just shooting, but shooting under pressure," said

Even if there is only a small improvement in shooting percentage, that can be the difference between



"We want to change lives" claims Agitos Foundation as IPC General Assembly opens

  • Paralympics

Nick Butler at the Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel in AthensNovember 22 - Director of the Agitos Foundation Georg Schlachtenberger has described his organisation's specific aims for 2014 as well as their general purpose to "change lives and contribute to an inclusive society".

be affected by the strategic plans ©Getty ImagesAs well as athletics, these consist of powerlifting, shooting


Baku 2015 Sports

  • Baku Content

Crowds can expect some spellbinding shooting from Europe’s finest.

Shooting Baku Shooting Centre will be completely upgraded for the

Baku Shooting Centre The Baku Shooting Centre is a 30-minute drive west of the


Exclusive: England reveal Team Leaders for Glasgow 2014

  • Glasgow 2014

By Duncan MackayNovember 20 - Peter Stanley, the man behind the incredible success of triple jumper Jonathan Edwards, and Alexei Evangulov, one of the world's best-known diving coaches, are among the 18 Team Leaders appointed by Commonwealth Games England (CGE) for Glasgow 2014, insidethegames can reveal.

Roberts; Lawn bowls - John Bell; Netball - Sarah Gandon; Rugby sevens - Nadine Cooke; Shooting


We owe Olympic survival to embracing technology, admits taekwondo chief

  • Taekwondo

By Nick Butler at the Rolex Learning Centre in LausanneNovember 13 - Jean-Marie Ayer, secretary general of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), has admitted here the survival of taekwondo's Olympic status was dependent on the sport's successful embracing of new technologies introduced in the aftermath of Beijing 2008.

with advances in technology for measuring power output, which has revolutionised training methods, and shooting


Shooting star on target in IPC Athlete of the Month poll

  • Shooting News

By Gary AndersonNovember 13 - German shooting star Natascha Hiltrop has picked up the International Paralympic

Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month award for October following her exploits at the IPC Shooting European

award.Germany's Natascha Hiltrop produced a superb display of accuracy to take the IPC European Shooting

performance in Alicante will surely raise expectations that she can secure a home win at next year's IPC Shooting

Athlete of Month Award for October headed by table tennis players and shootersOctober 2013: New shooting



China dominant in ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Finals

  • Shooting

By Paul OsborneNovember 9 - China raced ahead of the competition at the International Shooting Sports

I had to change a bit my position and adapt my shooting style, to compete here, but luckily everything

consecutive stages in Munich and Fort Manning in May.The youngster built a steady lead over his opponents shooting

I had seen some shooting competitions on TV, and I got fascinated by the sport, that's why I started.


Best shooters meet in Munich for ISSF Pistol and Rifle World Cup Finals

  • Shooting

OsborneNovember 8 - The best shooters in the world met in Munich today as the start of the International Shooting

shooters, selected by their performances throughout this year's World Cup stages, met at the 1972 Olympic Shooting

in Hochbruck to compete for the 2013 World Cup titles in the 10 Olympic events of rifle and pistol shooting

I started shooting seven years ago.I used to be a timid person, but when I became a competitive athlete

My founding memory in shooting is Atlanta1996, the Olympic Games."

I know Munich's shooting range very well: this is a difficult venue, and I was facing strong athletes


National Olympic Committees take part in Rio 2016 inspection

  • Rio 2016

By Gary AndersonNovember 6 - A total of 29 representatives from 13 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have spent two days visiting Olympic sites in Rio as part of the third Rio 2016 NOC Open Day.

Flamengo Park and Marina da Gloria in the South Zone, and the National Equestrian Centre and the National Shooting


IPC Athlete of Month Award for October headed by table tennis players and shooters

  • Paralympics

By Gary AndersonNovember 5 - Table table players Robert Davies of Britain and China's Pan Feng Feng, along with shooters Natascha Hiltrop of Germany and Sweden's Jonas Jacobsson, are among the six athletes nominated for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month award for October, it was announced today.

golds and as the world's top ranked player.Germany's Natacha Hiltrop announced her arrival on the world shooting

At the IPC Shooting European Championships in Alicante, 17-time Paralympic champion Jacobsson achieved

Jacobsson takes gold and sets qualification world record at European ChampionshipsOctober 2013: New shooting