The 50th ISSF World Championship, London 2012 Olympic quota places, the first Youth Olympic Games and the ISSF World Cup Series are the main ingredients of the breathtaking 2010 Shooting Season.
Following the seasonal break, the 2010 ISSF Shooting season is jet to start. Olympic Champions, World Cup protagonists, international athletes and shooting fans are starting to train for a new championship season that is announced to be tough. 2010 is going to be a year of passion and change, with the debuting Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, the 50th ISSF World Championship in all events in Munich, and the first qualifications matches for the 2012 Olympic Games.
ISSF World Cup – The 2010 Series starts in 50 days.
The 2010 ISSF World Cup Series will kick-off from Acapulco, Mexico, where the first Shotgun Stage will be conducted starting from the 1st of March. The ISSF World Cup will then move to Sydney for the first Rifle and Pistol Stage on the 20th of March, and then to Beijing (CHN), Dorchester (GBR), Fort Benning (USA), Lonato (ITA) and Belgrade (SRB). Shooters from all around the world will compete in fifteen Olympic shooting events, aiming at the title and preparing themselves to conquest the first Olympic Quota places. Find out how the ISSF World Cup Series works.
50th ISSF World Championship – Qualification to London’s Olympic Games
2010 is going to be a year Olympic qualification: the first Quota Places for the 2012 London Olympics will be awarded during the ISSF World Championship in all events taking place in Munich, starting July the 29th.
The 50th ISSF World Championship will take place at the 1972 Olympic Shooting Range in the outskirts of Munich, which has been renewed to host the most important shooting competition of the year. A record number of athletes is expected to take part in the elite match, to compete in fifteen Olympic events and in several non-Olympic and junior events.
“This venue is fantastic! I’ve been competing here in Munich during the 1972 Olympic Games! It has always been one of the best ranges of the world.” said the ISSF President Olegario Vàzquez Raña, visiting the venue during the 2009 World Cup held here “We have received a report from the organizers of the 2010 World Championships – the President continued – and I am sure that it is going to be a great event. We trust on our German friends, and the 50th ISSF World Championships is probably going to best championship we have ever been preparing.”
“The best shooters of the world will come to Germany. – Said the President of the German Shooting Federation, Josef Ambacher, speaking about the most important ISSF competition of the year – We have been entrusted by the International Shooting Sport Federation to Organize this World Championship. We are aware of the great honour and we will endeavour to make this event a successful festival with a positive response in the public. The sports facilities are in excellent condition and the final rehearsal at the World Cup 2009 has shown that even the newly-built clay target facility meets the highest international standards.”
Youth Olympic Games – 80 shooters in Singapore
Youth will be in the spotlight, during the 2010 season. Qualification competitions are taking place in all continents, leading to the first edition of the Youth Olympic Games that will kick-off in Singapore the 14th of August. There, 3200 athletes aging between 14 and 18 will compete in 26 different sports. Eighty young shooters will have a chance to compete in four events: Air Rifle and Air Pistol, Men and Women, carrying on the shooting sport Olympic tradition.
The first Youth Olympic Games quota places where awarded at the Oceania Championship in Sydney (AUS) and at the Asian Championship in Doha (QAT).
The International Shooting Sport Federation re-tested all Electronic Scoring Target systems which had been approved by the ISSF once and the result is as follows. For further information, please contact the ISSF Headquarters.
