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Egypt, USA, Italy, Germany, China and the 2012 Olympic Shooting Range in London will be the locations of next year’s ISSF Shooting World Cup Series.

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

The 2000 Double Trap Olympic Champion secured an Olympic Quota at the ISSF World Cup in Sydney. The second Quota went to Italy’s Francesco D’Aniello.

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.

The local organizing committee monitors the situation in the region, keeping the ISSF informed, after questions concerning safety.

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.

Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun shooters arrived at the 2000 Olympic Shooting Range questing for an Olympic Quota.

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.

“In spite of the earthquake you made it!” The ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña said to the Organizers, while officially opening the match, today.

“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).