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Para-shooting legend Kosmala retires after 12 Paralympics and 13 medals

  • Shooting News

Australian Paralympic shooter Libby Kosmala has retired from the sport at the age of 78, having won 13 medals at the Games in total.

Although her success largely came in Para-shooting, Kosmala also competed in swimming and athletics -

2020 before the Games were postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.All of her Paralympic shooting

Over 12 years, from 1976 onwards, Kosmala won nine gold medals and three silver medals in shooting at

Paralympics.Having gone from not knowing where the trigger was when she was first given the opportunity to try shooting


Esports among seven sports set to feature at IWAS World Games

  • Paralympics

Esports is set to make its International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) World Games debut later this year.

the IWAS World Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from December 10 to 17.Athletics, powerlifting, shooting



Panam Sports confirms September dates for Cali 2021 Junior Pan American Games

  • PASO

Panam Sports and the Colombian Government have confirmed the Cali 2021 Junior Pan American Games is still planned to go ahead next year, with the event scheduled for September 9 to 19.

basketball, bowling, boxing, canoeing, fencing, handball, judo, karate, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting


Schloesser breaks 1440 round archery world record

  • Archery

The Netherlands' Mike Schloesser has broken the world record for the 1440 Round in archery with a new score of 1421, defeating his Dutch teammate Peter Elzinga's previous mark.

I was shooting with Steve Wijler and I told him at the end that it was just great to shoot a normal competition




Djokovic wins as Osaka withdraws on finals day at Cincinnati Masters

  • Tennis

Novak Djokovic equalled Rafael Nadal's record of 35 Masters Series 1000 titles after coming from a set down to beat Milos Raonic in the final of the Cincinnati Masters.

Wednesday (August 26) prior to her scheduled semi-final against Belgium's Elise Mertens in response to the shooting



Chargers' first SoFi Stadium scrimmage cancelled to protest Jacob Blake shooting

  • Los Angeles 2028

practice at SoFi Stadium - their new home stadium and a key Los Angeles 2028 venue - to protest the police shooting

have all been called off after Milwaukee Bucks players opted to boycott a game in proest at Blake's shooting

semi-final.Blake's attorney has said that he is now paralysed.The US Department of Justice is now investigating the shooting


German archer Richter to miss Tokyo 2020 after shock retirement

  • Archery

Germany’s archery team have been dealt a blow ahead of next year’s Olympic Games following Elena Richter’s unexpected retirement.

’ve been struggling with this decision for several weeks," Richter said in an interview with German Shooting


Cincinnati Masters play suspended as Osaka withdraws over Kenosha shooting

  • Tennis

Play has been suspended for a day at the Cincinnati Masters to take "a stance against racial inequality and social injustice" following Naomi Osaka's withdrawal from the event.

scheduled.The decision came shortly after Japan's Osaka pulled out of the competition in response to the police shooting


Bucks-led player boycotts spread across US sport to protest Jacob Blake shooting

  • Summer Sports

major American sports leagues including the National Basketball Association (NBA) to protest the police shooting

2020In a statement, Bucks players said that their "focus today cannot be on basketball" because of the shooting

day prior, the National Football League's Detroit Lions had boycotted practice to protest against the shooting