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Shooting Media Guide 1 Table of Contents IPC Shooting Media G�ide 2016 IPC Shooting Media Guide 1 Table of contents 4 President’s welcome 6 Media and broadcast contacts 7 About shooting Para sport 8 Competition 8 Classification 9 History 10 Classification explained 10 Sport classes 12 Ones to watch 38 Vital statistics 40 Participation 42 Medals tables 46 World records 47 Regional records 56 Paralympic records 58 Current world and Paralympic medallists 60 Current Paralympic champions 64 Rio 2016 Press Attaches 72 Officials 73 Anti-doping 2 IPC Shooting Media Guide IPC Shooting Media Guide 3 President’s welcome rifle prone qualification events, to ensure the best athletes can truly demonstrate their incredible levels of accuracy and control. We have now had this competition for- mat for two major Championships and all World Cup events and the results have been staggering. New shooters have emerged as faces to watch and we have had a number of world records in the last four years. When you combine this with the rise in popularity and professionalisation of shooting Para sport in many countries, it Dear media representative, is clear that everything points to Rio 2016 being the most memorable yet for results Welcome to the IPC Shooting Media and performance. Guide, a new resource we have intro- duced to help you cover the Rio 2016 We have come a long way from the early Paralympic Games. days when paper targets were pinned to the wall! There is not long to go now until Latin America hosts its first Paralympic Games. I hope that this Media Guide is a useful And what a Games we expect it to be. source of information for you, and helps you to get to know the sport better before I predict it will be the best ever in terms and during competition at the Olympic of athletic performances and shooting will Shooting Centre. be no different. Thank you for your support Since the last Paralympics at London 2012, we made some changes to the scor- ing and format of competition in shooting. Athletes who progress to the finals will now restart their score from zero. Decimal scoring has been introduced to almost Sir Philip Craven MBE all finals, plus the 10m air rifle and 50m IPC President 4 IPC Shooting Media Guide IPC Shooting Media Guide 5 Media and broadcast contacts Abo�t shooting Para sport Lucy Dominy Shooting is the ultimate test of accuracy are open to women only and three are IPC Sports Public Relations and Campaigns Manager and control and, at the Paralympic Games, open to men only. Telephone: +49 228 2097-159 athletes with physical impairments com- Email: [email protected] pete in both rifl e and pistol events. The sport is governed by the IPC and co-ordinated by the IPC Shooting Sport In this precision sport, athletes use focus Technical Committee and Management Eva Werthmann and controlled breathing to reduce their Team. IPC Media Operations Manager heart rates and improve stability and high Telephone: +49 228 2097-143 performance. The sport follows rules of the Inter- Email: [email protected] national Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) This ability to steady hand and mind in conjunction with its own IPC Shooting to deliver a sequence of shots requires Technical Rules and Regulations, which Sascha Beck well-developed powers of concentration take into account the considerations and IPC Broadcast Manager and emotional control. adaptations that exist for Para athletes in Telephone: +49 228 2097-104 shooting sport. Email: [email protected] Athletes compete in events from distances of 10m, 25m and 50m in men’s, It has been on the Paralympic programme women’s and mixed competitions. since Toronto 1976 and today is practiced in over 65 countries. Of the 12 Paralympic shooting events, six are open to both women and men, three 6 IPC Shooting Media Guide IPC Shooting Media Guide 7 Competition Classification History The competition format is very similar to Athletes compete in three sport ­­classes – Shooting has been on the Paralympic In 2010, IPC Shooting signed a Mem- that of able-bodied shooting sport – the SH1 (pistol), SH1 (rifle) and SH2 (rifle). programme since the Toronto 1976 Para- orandum of Understanding with the goal is to place a series of shots inside the lympic Games and today is practised in Inter national Shooting Sport Federation centre of the target (the bull’s-eye). SH1 (rifle) athletes generally have an im- more than 65 countries. (ISSF) to cooperate and work together pairment in their lower limbs, whilst SH1 in developing shooting sport. The agree- The target is comprised of 10 concentric (pistol) athletes have an impairment in One of the sport’s greatest athletes, ment covers several areas including scoring rings with a score grade of one the non-shooting arm and/or their lower Sweden’s Jonas Jacobsson, has won management, promotion of competitions to 10, the central ring giving 10 points. limbs. SH2 athletes have an impairment medals at nine consecutive Paralympic and events, knowledge exchange, and In many events – to showcase the ath- in their upper limbs which prevents them Games since 1980. education of technical officials. letes’ skill and accuracy - the scoring from supporting the full weight of the rings are each further subdivided into a rifle, thereby requiring the assistance of a In the past he has recalled how, in the It was this partnership, as well as dis- further 10 scoring zones to give a decimal spring-mounted shooting support stand. early days, shooters used to fire at paper cussion from within shooting Para sport, place scoring system, with 10.9 being the targets pinned to the wall. That is a vast that led to the most recent changes after very centre of the target and the highest Detailed information about classification departure from the way in which compe- London 2012. possible score per shot. is available on page 10. titions are contested in the modern day, where targets and scoring are much more In 2013 IPC Shooting followed suit with The rules – including the number of shots sophisticated. the ISSF and changed its scoring and and the time limit – depend on the gun finals formats. (.177 air or .22 smallbore calibre), the Follow us: The same venue and systems are now distance, the target, and the shooting used for Paralympic shooting as for the At Rio 2016, athletes who progress to the position. Competitors accumulate points @IPCShooting Olympic Games at each edition. finals will now begin their score from zero. for the value of their shots. Decimal scoring has also been introduced IPCShooting After 1976, the competition schedule to almost all finals, plus also 10m air rifle Scores for each shot in the qualification evolved rapidly. From three competitions and 50m rifle prone qualification events. round are accumulated to give the ath- ShootingParaSport limited to rifle shooting, by Arnhem 1980 lete a total score. The top eight athletes there were 11 medal events including the Paralympic competition is open to ath- in the qualification round qualify for the www.ipc-shooting.org addition of three in pistol. letes with physical impairments, with the final, however qualification scores are not development of visually impaired shoot- carried over into the final, meaning each This development levelled out after New ing underway outside of the Games. Para finalist starts from zero. York/Stoke Mandeville in 1984, by which clay target shooting, with shotguns, is also time the programme included individual being developed. In an exciting test of nerves, skill and and team pistol and rifle events in prone, focus, athletes with the lowest scores are kneeling and three positions. Other recognisable names in the sport eliminated over the course of a final, until include 73-year-old grandmother Libby a duel between the two remaining ath- Now the programme includes 12 individ- Kosmala. The Australian has competed letes for gold and silver medals ensues. ual men’s, women’s and mixed events at seven Paralympic Games including in in rifle and pistol over distances of 10m, 1976 where she won one of the first gold To give you an idea of the level of the 25m and 50m. medals in the history of the sport. accuracy required, in 10m air rifle events athletes fire at a bull's-eye which is only 0.05cm wide – as big as a full-stop. 8 IPC Shooting Media Guide IPC Shooting Media Guide 9 Class ifi cation Sport class es explained SH1 (pistol) Shooting has been on the Paralympic pro- oping shooting sport. The agreement cov- In this sport class athletes are able to gramme since the Toronto 1976 Paralym- ers several areas including management, To ensure competition is fair and equal, support the full weight of the pistol them- pic Games and today is practiced in more promotion of competitions and events, all Paralympic sports have a system selves. As the pistol is held with one hand than 65 countries. knowledge exchange, and education of in place which ensures that winning is only, athletes in this sport class have an technical offi cials. determined by skill, fi tness, power, endur- impairment aff ecting one arm and/or the One of the sport’s greatest athletes, Swe- ance, tactical ability and mental focus, legs, for example resulting from amputa- den’s Jonas Jacobsson, has won medals It was this partnership, as well as discus- the same factors that account for success tions or spinal cord injuries. Some shoot- at nine consecutive Paralympic Games sion from within shooting Para sport, that in sport for able-bodied athletes. ers compete in a seated position, while since 1980.
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