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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 best Rifle and Pistol shooters of the world met in Wroclaw, Poland, to compete in this year’s ISSF World Cup Final. The reigning World Champions, the title defenders and the best eighth World Cup competitions of the year will fight to secure the 2011 ISSF World Cup title starting from tomorrow morning right through the 24th of September.

Eighty-six athletes, coming from thirty-one countries (for a total of 99 starts), are competing in the 2011 Rifle and Pistol World Cup Final, which kicked off today in Wroclaw, Poland.

The event, with the first medal matches starting tomorrow, is the conclusive act of the 2011 ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Series, which travelled from Sydney (AUS) to Changwon (KOR), passing through Fort Benning (USA) before landing in Munich (GER) where the last Rifle and Pistol Stage was conducted last June.

“The best shooters of the world are competing here for the 2011 ISSF World Cup Title. I am sure that the Organizers will provide the best possible conditions for this event.” The ISSF Secretary General – Mr. Franz Schreiber – said while declaring the Final officially opened, at today’s Opening Ceremony.

“We are happy to have you here on the recurrence of the 90^th anniversary of the Polish shooting federation.” The President of the Polish shooting Federation, Mr. Tomasz Kwiecien said at the Opening Ceremony “We would like to thank the ISSF for entrusting us with the organization of this important competition.”

More than 2400 athletes participated in this year’s ISSF World Cup Series, and 96 Olympic Quota Places – the entrance tickets to the 2012 London Olympics – were distributed since March.

Only the best made it through and arrived to compete here in Wroclaw: the top eighth World Cup competitors of the year (qualified through a points system), the reigning world champions and the 2010 World Cup title defenders are eligible to participate in the competition, upon invitation of the organizers.

The first three medal matches, the 50m Rifle Prone Men, the 50m Pistol Men and the 25m Pistol Women finals will take place tomorrow, starting from 12.00 (GMT+1). Follow the event on www.issf-sports.org!

Schedule of the 2011 ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Final: http://www.issf-sports.org/calendar/championship_schedule.ashx?cshipid=1183

Qualified athletes: http://www.issf-sports.org/results/wcf_qualification/portraits_riflepistol.ashx

The ISSF President, Olegario Vazquez Raña, welcomed the participants at the opening ceremony in Changwon. Five hundred athletes will compete there from tomorrow to the 15th of April.

More than 500 shooters coming from 58 countries arrived in Changwon, Korea, to participate in the third leg of this year’s ISSF World Cup Series.

Starting from tomorrow morning, the best athletes of the world will compete in the ten Olympic events of Rifle and Pistol shooting, on the lines of the well-known shooting range of Changwon, were 12 ISSF world cups have been conducted since 1987.

Twenty-four Olympic Quota Places are in the sights of the competitors, which will try to win a pass to the next 2012 Games here in Korea.

“I would like to thank our Korean friends for organizing this competition,” The ISSF President, Olegario Vazquez Raña, said at the opening ceremony which took place this evening. “This is going to be a great competition, an Olympic Qualifier with an impressive participation of athletes. I wish you all the best success!”

The athletes were also welcomed by the President of the Korean Shooting Federation, Jung Kim, and by the Major of Changwon, Park Wan-Su.

The first two medal matches, the 10m Air Rifle and the 50m Pistol Men finals will take place tomorrow, April the 9th, at 12.30 and 14.30 (GMT+9) respectively.

Check out the competition’s schedule at: http://www.issf-sports.org/calendar/championship_schedule.ashx?cshipid=1177 and don’t miss the match! All the footage of the competition – highlights, interview and full finals – will be available on the ISSF YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/issfchannel

400 shooters will compete in the third step of this year’s Rifle and Pistol World Cup Series which started-off at the international shooting range of Fort Benning, Gerogia, USA.

Following the first two steps of Sydney and Beijing, the ISSF World Cup Series in Rifle and Pistol events moved to USA, where about 400 shooters coming from 52 countries came to compete in the ten Olympic events of Rifle and Pistol shooting at the International Shooting Range of Fort Benning, Georgia.

The official start to the competition was given at the opening ceremony held at the new Ft. Benning’s Infantry Musueum, where athletes’ delegations had a chance to meet the organizers and the official of the World Cup event.

Lindsay Brooke, the Deputy Chief of the 2010 World Cup Organizing Committee, started off the ceremony by welcoming the athletes: “We are grateful for such strong participation this year and we look forward to providing you with the best possible experience here!” she said, leaving then the stage to Mr. Robert Mitchell, USA Shooting Executive Director and member of the ISSF Executive Committee, and to Mr. Gary Anderson, the ISSF Vice President and President of USA Shooting, who addressed a welcome peech to athletes and local authorities.

“On behalf of the ISSF and USA Shooting, I’d like to welcome the best rifle and pistol shooters of the world. – said Mr. Anderson – Welcome to USA and to the 2010 ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning!”

“We are honoured to organize this World Cup and to once agaig bring together the worldwide shooting sport family!” concluded Mr. Anderson, before declaring the competition officially opened.

FIRST MEDALS:

The 10m Air Rifle Men and the 10m Air Pistol Women, the first two medal matches of this ISSF World Cup Stage, will take place today, May the 24th, at 12.00 and 15.30 respectively (GMT-5).

Following the cancellation of the World Cup Stage in India, the ISSF reassigned the first World Cup in Rifle and Pistol to Australia.

The first 2010 ISSF World Cup in Rifle and Pistol events will be held in Sydney, Australia, from the 20th through the 28th of March. The competition will take place at the 2000 Olympic Shooting Range of Sydney, which hosted an ISSF World Cup in 2007.

The World Cup Stage was originally scheduled to take place in India, but the ISSF decided to assign it to Australia as New Delhi’s Organizing Committee withdrew its application.

“We are naturally delighted, as this will mean that the Australians will have an opportunity to compete on their home soil against the world’s best athletes. – Said the CEO of Australian Shooting Association Nick Sullivan - This will play a very important part in the lead up to both the International Shooting Sports Federation’s World Championships and the Commonwealth Games to be held later in the year.”