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Marine Corps win fourth Chairman's Cup as 2013 Warrior Games conclude in Colorado

  • Paralympics

By Emily GoddardMay 16 - The Marine Corps secured their fourth Chairman's Cup with a haul of 93 medals of the 264 awarded at the 2013 Warrior Games to outperform the other service branches at the competition, which concluded at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

thanks to their 34 gold, 33 silver and 26 bronze medals, which also saw them leading the medal count in shooting


Johnson to lead Paralympics New Zealand shooting team at UK World Cup in Stoke Mandeville

  • Shooting News

London 2012 bronze medallist Michael Johnson is set to lead the five-member Paralympic New Zealand shooting

represents New Zealand's best medal chance having recently taken two gold medals at the International Shooting

This is a great team and one of the largest NZ Shooting teams to be sent internationally," said Paralympics

been going on for some time behind the scenes to identify and develop athletes within the sport of shooting


Cooke claims first ever World Cup victory in Budapest

  • Modern Pentathlon

By Tom DegunMay 12 - Britain's Jamie Cooke has won the first UIPM World Cup event of his career by taking a superb gold medal in Budapest in Hungary.

claim victory with 5,872 points.The highlight of the final event saw Cooke claim a world record in the shooting

My shooting was definitely the key today."




World Cup silver medallist to lead Australian shooting team to Kazan

  • Kazan 2013

7 - World Cup silver medallist Catherine Skinner has been named in the Australian Uniroos three-man shooting

and high gun titles, finishing third overall at the national championships.Australian International Shooting

completes the team as he is pencilled in to compete in the men's trap on his Universiade debut.The shooting

events will be held at the Sviyaga Shooting Range, kicking off on July 12 and running through to July


McFadden tops IPC Athlete of the Month shortlist after securing London Marathon record

  • Paralympics

By Emily GoddardMay 2 - Tatyana McFadden has made it onto the shortlist for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month award for April after the American wheelchair racer secured victory at the Boston and London Marathons – setting a course record in the latter.

winning gold and setting a new world record of 204.9 in the standing SH1 10m air rifle event at the IPC Shooting



British disability shooters impress at Hanover competition

  • Shooting News

James CrookApril 28 - Britain's disability shooters took two gold medals at the 2013 International Shooting

Butler qualified for the final of the event in eighth place but blew away her competition shooting 206.2

four 50m rifle shooters in this competition, mainly because there are no 50m rifle events at the IPC Shooting

Poland, Turkey and Great Britain so it was good competition experience for them," Disability Target Shooting


Promising start to Rio 2016 build-up for British shooters

  • Shooting News

By Duncan MackayApril 21 -  Britain's top disability shooters have started the new Paralympic cycle by winning four medals at their first international competition since London 2012.

The team travelled to Szczecin in Poland for the first International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting

cycle, the event also marked the start of new rules for the finals, introduced by the International Shooting

Veronika Vadovicova of Slovakia taking bronze.Britain's second individual medal was won in the pistol shooting

Disability Target Shooting Great Britain (DTSGB) team manager and head coach, Pasan Kularatne, said:

the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesFebruary 2013: IPC Shooting


Earthquake fails to shake Tymoshchenko off his stride

  • Modern Pentathlon

By Duncan MackayApril 20 - A major earthquake failed to stop the men's event in the third round of the UIPM World Cup taking place in Chengdu.

Keeping his nerve when he needed it most, he was first away from the range after the last round of shooting

I really enjoyed it, and then in the combined I was hardly missing in the shooting.



Men far outnumbered women at London 2012, reveals report

  • London 2012

By Emily GoddardApril 16 - The London 2012 Olympics included 1,233 more male athletes and offered 30 more medal events for men than for women competitors, according to a new report by researchers at University of Southern California (USC) and the University of Toronto's Centre for Sport Policy Studies.

Nearly half of the sports, including racewalking, canoe/kayak, rowing, shooting, boxing and wrestling


Chengdu set to host third round of UIPM World Cup

  • Modern Pentathlon

By Duncan MackayApril 16 - The Pierre de Coubertin Modern Pentathlon Stadium in Chengdu will host the third round of the UIPM World Cup event this week. 

"The laser shooting and combined event make the time much shorter, five hours, this is what makes it