January 4 - Raninder Singh (pictured), an international trap shooter, has been elected President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI).

Punjab in NRAI's governing body, is an active trap shooter and has also participated in International Shooting

the late Digvijay Singh stepped down following a Supreme Court directive just before the Commonwealth Shooting

January 4 - China is hoping to use the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro to give a serious boost to women's golf in the country with much of the focus centred on Yan Jing, the 14-year-old who won two silver medals at last year's Asian Games in Guangzhou.

The teenager was compared to Michelle Wie after shooting a spectacular 69 on the final day

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearDecember 31 - More secret documents have been published which shed light on the political machinations that went on as Governments tried to get their teams boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.

to have warned there might be a world war within three years.As it turned out, the hockey, yachting, shooting

By Mike RowbottomDecember 22 - Greg Searle (pictured) has set his sights on winning a gold medal at the London 2012 Games at the age of 40 - 20 years after his first Olympic gold.

London, he set a schedule of returning to the squad in 2010, aiming for a world medal in 2011 and "shooting

Amateur Rowing Association SAILING International Sailing Federation Royal Yachting Association SHOOTING

International Shooting Sport Federation Great Britain Target Shooting Federation SWIMMING Federation

By Tom DegunDecember 20 - Confusion surrounds the future of the Netherlands Antilles and whether they will be allowed to compete at the London 2012 Olympics after the autonomous Caribbean country ceased to exist as a separate territory.

Antilles at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Churandy Martina (pictured) in athletics, Philip Elhage in shooting

The International Sport Shooting Federation (ISSF) and the International Federation of Swimming (FINA

By Tom DegunDecember 17 - Multiple Paralympic medalist shooter Im Yeon Kim of South Korea has won the Asian Paralympic Committee's (APC) Athletes' Representatives election after polling more than twice as many votes as the nearest candidate and will now represent the views of athletes on the APC's Executive Board for the next four years.

took place at the spectacular Athlete's Village.Kim claimed an overwhelming majority as the Paralympic shooting

December 14 - Horst Georg Schreiber, secretary general of the International Shooting Sport Federation

Olympics.His service was always distinguished by complete, unselfish dedication to the best interests of the shooting

1959.His personal activities included leadership roles in the GAISF and in sports clubs for tennis, shooting

December 8 - With just four days to go to the start of the 2010 Asian Para Games in Guangzhou, China, officials are working on the final transformation from last month's 16th Asian Games.

seven-a-side, boccia, volleyball (sitting), wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair tennis, shooting

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearDecember 6 - Rio de Janeiro could potentially face problems when it hosts the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics, fears the United States Embassy in Brazil according to documents released by Wikileaks.

situation, a question brought to the fore on October 17 as a gunfight between drug gangs resulted in the shooting

By Tom DegunDecember 6 – The Asian Para Games in Guangzhou, which start next Sunday (December 12), will be "the opportunity of a lifetime" for disability athletes in Asia to compete in a major multi-sport event and for top competitors to rehearse for London 2012 according to Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) President Dato' Zainal Abu Zarin.

boccia, cycling, football five-a-side, football seven-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, rowing, shooting

Visitors to Qatar can go about their day-to-day lives without fear of abduction or bombing or shooting

December 4 - Grants of £1,000 ($1,600) have been given to four British Olympic hopefuls to help them train and prepare for the London 2012 Games.

Athlete Scholarships to Martin Ward in boxing, Francesca Jones in rhythmic gymnastics, Stevan Walton in shooting

By Tom DegunDecember 3 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the International Shooting

Federation (ISSF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to continue working together developing shooting

Paralympic shooting is becoming an increasingly popular sport, featuring stars such as Britain's 27

in a car accident.Xavier Gonzalez, IPC chief executive, said: "Working together with the ISSF, IPC shooting

This is an important step in growing shooting and will be beneficial for everyone involved."

exchange and general development of the Paralympic Sport and participating athletes.While the IPC's shooting

sport.These rules take into account the differences that exist between shooting for the able-bodied

December 1 - A sportsman left in a wheelchair after suffering a fall has told how taking up target shooting

I thought I would get in touch with Disability Target Shooting Great Britain and it changed my life."