The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Running Target World Championship has been postponed

during the pandemic ©Getty ImagesMembers of the ISSF Executive Committee praised hosts of recent major shooting

a statement, the ISSF said organisers deserved "special gratitude... for their contribution to the shooting

The United States, Colombia and Germany claimed team bronze medals over four compound and recurve competitions on day four of the Archery World Cup in Guatemala City.

beat us in the first match, but we came together strong as a team, and it's really nice when we're all shooting

Ana Vazquez marked the long-awaited return to action in the Archery World Cup by setting an Americas record score in women's recurve qualifying on the first day of the season's opening event in Guatemala City.

Cup champion Mike Schloesser topped the seeding after a 717-point qualification, with the Dutchman shooting

"Change or be changed" is International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach's favourite mantra.

figures for 2019-2020, the first COVID-affected season, aggregate pre-tax losses look set to be within shooting

Norfolk Island - April 2022Only around 2,000 people live on Norfolk Island, so returning home from the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games with a medal was unquestionably a tremendous achievement.

Shooting was on at the same time and our President was giving medals, so he had to travel up to Brisbane

sent 18 athletes to Gold Coast 2018 - in two sports - but their team in Birmingham will be smaller as shooting

 Norfolk Island will only compete in bowls at Birmingham 2022 after shooting was dropped from the

India - July 2022India is unquestionably one of the big guns at Birmingham 2022 but its relationship with the Commonwealth Games has entered a rocky period.

people, has won 181 gold medals since first participating in London in 1934.However, the decision to axe shooting

there were even threats to withdraw in protest.A proposal to hold a separate Commonwealth Archery and Shooting

Bangladesh - July 2022Bangladesh returned home from the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games with a pair of silver medals, which for them represented a good result.

Shooting is our best sport and is unfortunately not here this time," said Bangladesh's Birmingham Chef

Abdullah Hel Baki won shooting silver for Bangladesh at Gold Coast 2018, but the sport has now been dropped

athletics, boxing, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling.In the absence of shooting

country where, perhaps in a nod to the disappointment about the axing of the sport, both Gold Coast shooting

Malta - November 2021For Charlene Attard, Malta's Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022, next year's Commonwealth Games cannot come soon enough.

Coast - thanks to Brian Galea in the men's trap shooting.Brian Galea continued Malta's medal success in shooting

medals since a second and a third place finish in Melbourne in 2006.Both of these medals also came in shooting

Jersey - April 2022Not every Commonwealth Games team can return home with a glut of medals, but the smaller delegations can celebrate success in other ways.

rifle at Auckland 1990.Channel Island neighbours Guernsey also won the only gold in their history in shooting

Isle of Man - May 2022For a lot of people, thinking about the Isle of Man means thinking about bikes.

Buckley, who won the road race in Kingston in 1966, and skeet shooter Nigel Kelly at Edinburgh 1986.Shooting

"We've got an established shooting structure in place.

Games, where the Isle of Man team will be spread out across the three Athlete Villages.Tim Kneale won shooting

Guernsey - November 2021Some athletes will only learn if they are heading to the Commonwealth Games at the last moment, but that won't be the case in Guernsey.

 Guernsey is another team disappointed that shooting has not made the Birmingham 2022 programme

rapid fire pistol at Auckland 1990.The consolation prize of the standalone Commonwealth Archery and Shooting

Cyprus - July 2022Before Gold Coast 2018, the best performance from Cyprus at the Commonwealth Games came at Delhi 2010 when they won four gold medals.

performance at Birmingham 2022 will be a tough ask, particularly as Evripidou is not attending and shooting

October 2021 - Falkland IslandsYou would be hard pushed to find a team more enthused about the Commonwealth Games than the Falkland Islands.

"Shooting was the first ever sport that we took part in, and the Falklands has a very long tradition

in shooting."

vocally protested the absence of shooting.The country was due to host a separate Commonwealth Archery and Shooting

A long-term strategic plan, encompassing two Olympic cycles, has been launched by the Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC).

in every Summer Olympic Games since but, until London 2012, when they sent an athlete to compete in shooting

National Olympic Committee of Lithuania (LNOC) President Daina Gudzinevičiūtė hopes to increase the number of women working within sport, with the organisation highlighting a series of projects to combat a shortage of female officials.

Presidents, with only a dozen of the world's 200 NOCs led by women.Gudzinevičiūtė, a Sydney 2000 trap shooting