The ISSF Secretary General Schreiber thanked the participants for their excellent results. Rifle and Pistol shooters will meet again next year, at the Pre-Olympic World Cup in London

The 10m Air Rifle Women event closed the 2011 ISSF World Cup Finals in Rifle and Pistol events, held in Wroclaw, Poland, from the 18^th to the 24^th of September.

Only the bests were eligible to participate in this competition: the reigning World Champions, the World Cup Final title defenders, and the eight top performers selected throughout this year’s four ISSF World Cup Stages in Sydney, Changwon, Fort Benning and Munich.

The People’s Republic of China and Germany finished atop of the Medal Standings, with two Gold medals, two Silver and one Bronze medals each. Russia followed in third, with one Gold and two Silver medals.

“We have to thank all the participants, all these great shooters, who competed here” The ISSF Secretary General – Mr. Franz Schreiber – said at the Closing ceremony, today.

“Excellent results were reached, and a new Final World Record was scored. We have a new great record in the 10m Air Rifle Men event, thanks to China’s Zhu Qinan.”  The Secretary General highlighted “This has been a top level Rifle and Pistol Competition, and we also have to thank the SIUS ASCOR company, who sponsored today’s Champions Trophy.”

The ISSF World Cup Final concluded this year’s World Cup Series. The Rifle and Pistol shooters will met again next year, on the 17^th of April, when the Pre-Olympic ISSF World Cup in all events in London will kick-off on the ranges of the 2012 Olympics.

The medal standings:

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The ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup in Munich and the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Maribor were the last two chances to qualify for this year’s ISSF World Cup Finals.

The ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Final will take place in Wroclaw, between the 18th and the 24th of September.

The ISSF Shotgun World Cup Final will be held in Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates, from the 30th of September through the 7th of October.

Only the best athletes are eligible to participate in the Finals: the top eight world cup performers of the season, the title defenders and the reigning world champions will duel right to the last shot to gain the 2011 ISSF World Cup winner’s trophy.

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The 2011 ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Maribor, Slovenia, was the last world cup stage of the year, before the ISSF Shotgun World Cup Final that will take place in Al Ain (in the United Arab Emirates) starting from the 30th of September.

It was the Chinese team who placed atop of the medal standing of this fourth and last world cup stage, with three medals, one of each colour.

Great Britain followed in second with one Gold  (won by Wilson in Double Trap Men) and one Bronze medals. Denmark, Spain and USA came in third place with one Gold medal each.

The best shotgun shooters of the world will now meet at the ISSF Shotgun World Championship, taking place in Belgrade (Serbia) from the 3^rd of September, before travelling to the ISSF Shotgun World Cup Final, held this year in Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates.

ISSF World Cup Maribor – The medal standings

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Today’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men event closed the 2011 ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup in Munich, conducted on the lines of the 1972 Olympic Shooting Range from the 16th of June.

The People’s Republic of China finished atop of the medal standings of the fourth and last Rifle and Pistol world cup of the year. Winning four Gold, one Silver and one Bronze, the Chinese team collected a total of six medals, two more then the home team.

Germany placed in second, with two Gold, one Silver and one Bronze, totalizing four awards. Coming in third place, Belarus, France, Japan and Turkey all won one Gold meal each.

890 shooters coming from 86 countries came here to compete in the 10 Olympic events of Rifle and Pistol shooting form all around the world, aiming at the 24 Olympic Quota Places to be awarded during the championship. Almost 1500 starts were registered, and the ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber spoke of a “record turnout of athletes.”

Munich’s world cup was the fourth a last ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Stage of the year. The ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Final, which will crown the champions of the season, will take place in Wroclaw, from 18 through the 24 of September.

The medals stangings

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2011 ISSF Shotgun World Cup Final cancelled

The International Shooting Sport Federation is sorry to announce that the 2011 ISSF Shotgun World Cup Final in Cairo, Egypt, had to be cancelled due to force majeure.

The Shotgun World Cup Final, which was scheduled to take place between 2-9 October, had to be cancelled due to the actual situation in the north-African country.

The decision was taken in accordance with the local organizing committee after considering several options and scenarios, and keeping the focus on the safety of international athletes.

The ISSF accepted the proposal to re-schedule the 2011 Shotgun World Cup Final in Al-Ain (UAE).  The new competition’s schedule will be announced soon.

2011 ISSF Rifle & Pistol World Cup Final to be rescheduled.

At the same time, the 2011 ISSF Rifle & Pistol World Cup Final that was first scheduled to take place in Al-Ain (UAE) between 1-8 November 2011, was cancelled.  Negotiations to select a new host venue are ongoing, and new location & dates will be announced as soon as possible.

“The ISSF had to reschedule our World Cup Finals 2011 because we were concerned about the safety conditions in Cairo. – The ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber said - The Organizing Committee informed the ISSF that the safety of our participants may not be secured and therefore requested to change the Shotgun World Cup Final to Al Ain.

“We are now working to select a new location for the Rifle & Pistol World Cup Final. - Mr. Schreiber added – We will keep our member federations informed, and release the new dates as soon as possible”.

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The 2012 ISSF World Cup calendar has been unveiled, and the locations of next years World Cup Stages disclosed.

The 2012 ISSF World Cup Series will start from Cairo, Egypt, where the first Shotgun Stage will take place between the 4th and the 13th of March. Then, Shotgun shooters will travel to Tuscon, USA, where an ISSF World Cup Stage will be held for the first time between the 23rd of March and the 1st of April.

Rifle and Pistol shooters will start the season in London, for a test match on the layouts of the 2012 Olympic Shooting Rage, where a combined world cup stage (rile, pistol and shotgun events) will be conducted from the 17th to the 29th of April.

The 2012 ISSF World Series will then continued with two steps in Europe, the Rifle and Pistol World Cup Stages in Milan, Italy (13 – 20 May) and Munich, Germany (20 – 27 May).

It will be a combined World Cup Stage in Beijing to close the World Cup Series before the Games. Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun shooters will compete on the venues of the 2008 Olympics from the 16th to the 25^th of June, one month before the start of the XXX Olympic Games in London.

The 2012 ISSF World Cup Series:

04 – 13 March – Cairo (EGY) – Shotgun

23 March – 01 April – Tuscon (USA) – Shotgun

17 – 29 April – London (GBR) – Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun (Olympic Test Event)

13 – 20 May – Milan (ITA) – Rifle/Pistol

20 – 27 May – Munich (GER) – Rifle/Pistol

16 – 25 June – Beijing (CHN) – Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun

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Great Britain’s Richard Faulds won the Double Trap Men event at the 2011 ISSF Combined World Cup in Sydney. The 34-year old secured an Olympic Quota Place, an entrance ticket to the next 2012 London Games, on the same layout where he had won the 2000 Olympics. Faulds finished on the highest step of the podium with a total score of 188 hits. Walking into the medal match in fifth with a qualification score of 141 targets, he climbed up in the lead by hitting 47 out of 50 targets in the final round.

“It’s destiny!” Faulds said right after the match “I had never came back to shoot here in Sydney, after my victory at the 2000 Games.”

“It has been quite difficult. I had no idea that I was in the lead, while I was shooting.” He continued. “I had the feeling, but I tried not to watch the scoreboard, to keep the focus on my targets.”

“I am extremely happy about winning this Quota. I had a bad season last year, I changed my gun and I had it took some times to get used to it.” Faulds said. He had won his last ISSF World Cup Gold medal in 2008, in Suhl, Germany.

Following him in second place, USA’s Joshua Richmond pocketed the Silver medal with a total score of 186 clays, hitting 46 targets throughout the final. The reigning world champion had already won a quota place last year, nailing it at the first chance at the 2010 ISSF World Championship in Munich. Therefore, the second Olympic Quota awarded today went to Italy’s Francesco D’Aniello, third with 184 hits (140+44).

“This match has been harder than my final at the 2008 Games!” The 2008 Olympic Silver medallist D’Aniello said, kissing the cartridge of the last hit. “Winning the Bronze? The real goal was the quota place. Now that I’ve got it, my life became easier!”

Rashid Al-Athba of Quatar Placed in fourth with 183 hits. He was followed by the home hero Russell Mark, Australia’s 1996 Olympic Champion, who ended up in fifth with 183 clays. The second Australian finalist, Craig Trembath, closed the match in sixth and last place, with 179 hits.

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The Organizing Committee of the ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Stage in Changwon, Korea, said that the competition is on schedule, and that the match will be conducted as planned.

The World Cup will regularly take place from the 7 to the 15 of April, the Organizers said, answering to the questions arisen by of some member federations after the nuclear emergency in Japan.

The Organizing Committee reports that the Korean Government is closely monitoring the situation and so far there has been no indications of any danger in the region where the competition will take place.  No dangerous levels of  radiation were registered in recent days.

The ISSF is constantly in touch with the Korean Organizing Committee to monitor the situation in the region, and will keep its member federations informed in case of any further developments.

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The first training sessions have already started, at the 2000 Olympic Shooting Range of Sydney, were the ISSF World Cup Stage in Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun events is taking place from the 21st to the 31st of March.

The numbers of the match are impressive: 750 shooters (More than 1000 starts, coming from 68 nations, will compete in the 15 shooting sport Olympic events in the frame of the 2011 ISSF World Cup Series.

Thirty-four Olympic Quota places, the “entrance tickets” to the 2012 London Olympic Games, will be assigned to the best performers during this World Cup Stage.

The first final matches are scheduled on Wednesday the 23rd, when the 10m Air Rifle and the Air Pistol Women events will take place.

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“I am very happy to be here today, to open the first stage of the 2011 ISSF World Cup.” The ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña said today, while speaking at the opening ceremony of the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Conception, Chile.

More than 300 athletes coming from 47 nations participate in this World Cup Stage, taking place at the “Estadio Italiano” shooting club in Conception, Chile. The best finalists of the five Olympic events of Trap, Double Trap and Skeet will be awarded Quota Places, the “entry tickets” to the 2012 Olympic Games.

“Chile’s Shooting Federation has been entrusted with the organization of this World Cup Stage in 2008. Two years later, in 2010, a terrible earthquake hit the city of Conception. –President Vazquez Raña said – In spite of that disastrous event, the Organizing Committee made it. And I am proud to officially open this competition, today!”

Exactly one year ago, February the 27^th, 2010, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Conception. The city was shook for three, endless, minutes, and the quake was followed by a tsunami which struck the whole region. Twelve months later, the city welcomes hundreds of athletes coming from all around the world. The President of the Organizing Committee, Mr. Eugenio Garbarino, by the President of Chile’s Shooting Federation, Mr. Pedro Gonzalez , and by the Governor of Conception, Mr. Carlo Gonzales, recalled those difficult moments, while speaking on the opening’s stage.

The first medal match, the Double Trap Men Final, will take place tomorrow, at 16.00 Chile’s time (GMT–3).

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