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Air Pistol and Air Rifle Mixed Team events, two new shooting competitions, have been accepted by the IOC and will be included in program of the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing.

The ISSF is very pleased to report that two additional shooting events will be included in the program of the 2014 Youth Olympic Games, taking place in Nanjing (CHN) from the 16 through the 28 of August 2014.

The Shooting program will be increased from four events (Air rifle and Air pistol, men and women) staged at the first YOG in Singapore, in 2010, to six events in Nanjing, including the new Air Pistol and Air Rifle Mixed Team events.

The additional events will not modify the total number of YOG Quota Places for our sport: 80 young shooters will compete in Nanjing.

At the same time, the ISSF proposal of including two new shotgun events in the Youth Olympic Games program could not be accepted in order to control YOG costs, which would have been affected by a second venue for shotgun shooting.

“We are extremely satisfied of the fact that we will have two additional events in the YOG program.” The ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber said.

“Our first proposal included two new Shotgun events, but this would have required an additional venue for shooting, and therefore the proposal could not be accepted.”

“The ISSF has been supporting and will keep on supporting the Youth Olympic Games, as we believe in the values carried on by this sport event. We are looking forward to a successful second edition of the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, with extra opportunities given to our young shooters by the new events.”  Mr. Franz Schreiber concluded.

A major objective of this competition will be to give all shooting athletes in the Youth Olympic Games an additional competition experience that brings them together in a special event stressing international cooperation and friendship.

In the new Air Pistol and Air Rifle Mixed Team events, each team will be composed of one male and one female athlete, based on their final rankings in the individual Air Rifle and Air Pistol men and women events. The first place Air Rifle men athlete will be paired with the 20th place Air Rifle women athlete. The second place Air Rifle men athlete will be paired with the 19th place Air Rifle women athlete and so on. The pairing will continue until the 20th place Air Rifle men athlete is paired with the first place Air Rifle women athlete to form twenty total Air Rifle teams. The same system will be used to form twenty Air Pistol teams. The team pairings will be adjusted to ensure that no two athletes from one nation are on the same team.

The team events will take place over two days, following the four days of individual competitions.

On the first day, all team members will shoot a qualification program of 40 shots. The scores of each team member will be added and the combined results will determine the best 16 teams that advance to a “round of 16 competition” on the same day. In the quarterfinals eight pairs of teams will compete. The highest scoring team in the qualification will shoot against the lowest scoring team, the second highest scoring team will shoot against the next to the lowest scoring team etc. In the team pairs competitions, the two members of each team will each fire one shot. The

scores of the two team members will be added and compared with the two shot score total of the other team. The team with the highest total will score one point.

The paired teams will continue to fire one shot contests until one team scores ten points during that round of competition. The eight winning teams in each team event will advance to the quarterfinal, semi-final and final round competitions on the second day. Team pairs will use the same ten-point format in each successive round of competition. The four winning teams in each quarterfinal event will compete in the semi-final to determine the teams that compete for the gold and silver medals and the teams that compete for the bronze medal.

The 2014 YOG qualification period will start on April 1, 2013 and will end on June 8, 2014. Final regulations for this competition format will be provided.

2011 Dakar rally Champion secured a spot for London 2012, while Kuwait’s father and son won Olympic Quota. China atop of the medal standings with 75 medals.

The People’s Republic of China topped the medal standings of this year’s Asian Championship, staged in Doha, Qatar, from the 11th trough the 22nd of January.

The Chinese team placed atop of the final rankings with an outstanding total of 75 medals (33 Gold, 27 Silver and 15 Bronze awards). Korea followed in second place, with 28 medals, while India stepped up in third with 27 awards. The home team, Qatar, finished in fourth place, with four Gold, two Silver and one Bronze medals.

Thirty-three Quota Places – the entrance tickets to the 2012 Olympic Games – were distributed during this year’s Asian Championships.

Kuwait celebrated a “family” success, with two Quota Places won by the young 2011 Trap Junior World Champion Talal Alrashidi, 19, and by his father, the 49–year old three-time Skeet World Champion Abdullah Alrashidi.

“I am so proud of my son. I have encouraged him to start shooting, but he choose independently to shoot Trap.” The Skeet champion Alrashidi said during the last ISSF World Championship in Belgrade, in September. “I dream about going to the Olympic together with my son!” The proud father added.

The hosting nation, Qatar, secured three Olympic Quotas, also thanks to the 2011 Dakar Rally winner Nasser Al-Attiya who won the Skeet event with an outstanding perfect total score of 150 hits out 150 targets, equalling the current World Record. Al-Attiya had just came back from South America, where he was racing in this year’s edition of the Dakar rally, to try to secure a pass to the next Olympic Games. “I have two passions: shooting and rally. I won the 2011 Dakar rally, and after finishing in fourth at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, my sights are aiming to the London Games.”

The qualification path to the Games is almost completed: the last Quota Places to be assigned through ISSF competitions will be distributed at the 10m European Championship in Vierumaeki, Finland, kicking off the next 14th of February.

Check out the assigned quota places chart here: http://www.issf-sports.org/results/og_qualification/quota_places.ashx

12^th Asian Championship Medal Standings

12th Asian Championship Quota Place chart:

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A new agreement to develop Shotgun Shooting events for disabled shooters has been signed between ISSF and IPC, authorizing the Italian Shotgun Shooting Federation FITAV to conduct competition tests based on ISSF regulations.

The International Shooting Sport Federation and the International Paralympic Committee extended their collaboration with an agreement regarding Shotgun Shooting events, signed by the ISSF President, Mr. Olegario Vazquez Raña, and by the IPC Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Xavier Gonzalez, on the 16^th of January.

Under the guidance of the International Shooting Sport Federation, and with the recognition of the International Paralympic Committee, the “Federazione Italiana di Tiro a Volo (FITAV)” – the Italian Shotgun Shooting Federation – is entrusted to implement a project to develop Shotgun events for disabled shooters, based on ISSF Shotgun regulations.

On this path, FITAV has received the authorization to conduct test competitions for disabled shotgun shooters, in order to report to the International Shooting Sport Federation.

“Our Federation supports the idea of launching a project to develop shooting events for disables athletes.” The ISSF Secretary General, Mr. Franz Schreiber, said.

“The ISSF and the IPC are collaborating since years in the field of Rifle and Pistol competitions, and we are now willing to extend our agreements to Shotgun Shooting events”

Today’s agreement comes after the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the ISSF and the International Paralympic Committee on the 10 of November 2010, which covered several areas including management, promotion of competitions and events, knowledge exchange and general development of the Paralympic Sport and participating athletes.

This year’s Rifle and Pistol Wolrd Cup Final will be held in Thailand, on the lines of the Bangkok’s shooting range.

The 2012 ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Final will take place at the Shooting Range of Bangkok (THA), from the 22nd through the 28th of October 2012.

Bangkok’s Shooting Range has already hosted several international shooting  competitions, such as the 2007 Universade, the 2007 World Cup Stage, and the 2007 and 2008 ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Finals.

Check out the complete 2012 ISSF competitions calendar at: http://www.issf-sports.org/calendar.ashx

The first Shotgun World Cup Stage of the year was cancelled and rescheduled to Lonato, Italy, starting from the 1st of May.

The 2012 ISSF Shotgun World Cup, which was planned to be conducted in Cairo starting from March the 1st, has been cancelled.

The decision has been taken by the ISSF in agreement with the Egyptian Organizing Committee, given the actual situation in the country.

The World Cup has been rescheduled, and will take place at the “Trap Conca Verde” shooting range in Lonato (Italy), from the 1^st tough the 8^th of May 2012.

After these schedule changes, the 2012 ISSF World Cup Series will kick-off from Tucson, USA, on the 23^rd of March, and will then move to London, for a pre-Olympic World Cup stage in all the fifteen Olympic shooting events, starting on the 17^th of April.