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News, photos, videos, statistics… all you can dig is on the main page, just a click away from you, on the renewed ISSF website at www.issf-sports.org ISSF SHOOTING SPORT GUIDE CONTENTS WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 3 HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHOOTING SPORT FEDERATION 4 ISSF MILESTONES OLYMPIC SHOOTING 1896-2016 6 SCHEDULE XXXI OLYMPIC GAMES 2016 RIO DE JANEIRO, BRA 7 OLYMPIC SHOOTING EVENTS AND THE TITLE DEFENDERS 8 RESULTS XXX OLYMPIC GAMES 2012 LONDON, GBR 23 51ST ISSF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014 GRANADA, ESP 24 WORLD RANKINGS 26 WORLD RECORDS AND OLYMPIC RECORDS 27 QUALIFICATION QUALIFICATION TIMELINE OLYMPIC GAMES SHOOTING 28 RIO 2016 SHOOTING LIST OF PARTICIPANTS BY NOC 29 STATISTICS INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SHOOTING AT THE GAMES 34 CONTACTS: INTERNATIONAL SHOOTING SPORT FEDERATION ONLINE: BAVARIARING 21 WEB: WWW.ISSF-SPORTS.ORG D-80336 MUNICH FACEBOOK: ISSF.SHOOTING GERMANY TWITTER: ISSF_SHOOTING EMAIL: [email protected] WEIBO: ISSFSHOOTING PHONE: +49 89 5443550 INSTAGRAM: ISSF_OFFICIAL FAX: +49 89 54435544 FLICKR: ISSF_SHOOTING YOUTUBE: ISSFCHANNEL YOUKU: ISSFOFFICIAL MEDIA CONTACTS: MARCO DALLA DEA ISSF COMMUNICATION MANAGER EMAIL: [email protected] MOBILE PHONE: +39 347 4043040 RIO 2016 ISSF Media Guide 3 Photos: Nicolò Zangirolami, Yorck Dertinger WELCOME TO RIO DE JANEIRO Dear Members of the Media, we would like to welcome you to the Olympic Shooting Center of Rio de Janeiro, at the Deodoro cluster, where the 15 Olympic Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun Shooting events will be conducted from the 6th through the 14th of August 2016, during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. We welcome you here not only in behalf of the International Shooting Sport Federation, which we represent, but also of the whole Shooting sport family, which counts 163 member federations in five continents, and millions of practitioners all over the world. Once again, following a long-lasting tradition, the first medal competition of the Olympics will be conducted on the shooting range: the 10m Air Rifle Women event will indeed assign the first Gold medal of Rio 2016, on the 6th of August, marking a milestone of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad. The Final will start at 10.30 AM, and we are expecting podium has never been so close, and we are forecasting hundreds of media representatives, thousands of specta- breathtaking matches and new records, in the next days. tors on site, and millions of fans following the competition live on TV all over the world. This is a great honor for our We are ready. Our athletes are ready. Only some of them sport, and it will be the highlight of a four-year cycle for will fulfill their dream to finish atop of the Olympic podium, our athletes, coaches and officials. but we are sure that all of the 390 participating shooting sport athletes will enjoy a unique experience, a founding 390 athletes from 97 countries have qualified to participate memory of their careers. in Rio 2016, proving once again that universality is a true value of our sport. Once again, we would like to thank you for your interest in our events, and we wish you all good luck in the forthco- These athletes arrived here in Rio after a two-year long ming days in Rio de Janeiro! qualification period, and years and years of trainings, competitions and efforts. The format of our Finals has changed since London 2012, with the introduction of elimination-style finals, semi-finals and medal matches: Shooting is indeed a traditional sport, which does not fear Olegario Vázquez Raña Franz Schreiber innovations in favor of athletes and spectators. ISSF President ISSF Secretary General Thanks to these changes, the sport is even more spec- tacular, now. During the Olympic qualification period we have been witnessing excellent scores and thrilling medal events, that let us predict that we can expect more ath- letes than ever to be real contenders for the 45 Olympic Shooting medals of Rio 2016. The competition for the RIO 2016 ISSF Media Guide 5 HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHOOTING SPORT FEDERATION SHOOTING SPORT: A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE OLYMPIC FAMILY FOUNDING THE FEDERATION meeting in Paris, with the purpose of renewing the ISSF On July 17th, 1907, after Shooting appeared at the very activities. Representatives of 14 countries agreed to re- first edition of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, repre- establish the Federation under the name L’Union Interna- sentatives of seven national shooting federations met in tionale de Tir, while Daniel Merillon was re-elected as the Zurich, Switzerland, to formally establish L’Union Interna- President. tional des Federations et Associations Nationals de Tir, the International Union of National Shooting Federations BONDING WITH THE IOC and Associations in English. After 21 Shooting sport events were included in the pro- gram of the 1920 Olympic Games, the International Olym- The nations represented in what would be remembered pic Committee decided in 1921 that the ISSF regulations as the first ISSF General Assembly were Argentina, Aust- were to govern the Shooting events in the 1924 Olympiad. ria, Belgium, France, Greece, Italy and Netherlands. This decision marked a first, tangible step in forging a uni- on between the IOC and the ISSF. A bond that was going A quote in the first ISSF Constitution adopted in 1907 de- to have a profound impact on the Federation’s future. scribed the purpose of the Union as “to establish a bond of friendship between the major Shooting federations of SECOND HIATUS AND REBUILDING all nations in the world.” The 1940 Olympic Games could not take place because of the 2nd World War, and for the second time in history Daniel Merillon, a 55-year-old lawyer from Paris, France, the ISSF decided to suspend its operations. The ISSF and then President of L’Union des Societes de Tir de records and archives were transported by Karl August France, was elected as the first President of the ISSF. Larsson, Secretary General of the Swedish national fe- deration, from Paris to Stockholm, where they could be The entire meeting took about two hours, with one record protected in a neutral nation. stating that there were not even any chairs in the room, but it gave birth to a new international sports federation Larsson would then be elected as the Secretary General that was destined to grow from these modest beginning of the ISSF in 1947, when, after the conclusion of the war, to become one of the largest sports governing body. eight member federations agreed to hold a World Cham- pionship and a General Assembly in Stockholm. Erik THE EXPANSION AND THE Carlsson, President of the Swedish Shooting Federation, FIRST HIATUS was also elected as the third President in the history of In 1908, the second General Assembly in the history of the the ISSF. Federation was held in Vienna, Austria. There, three new member federations were also represented. Furthermore, The following year the Olympic Games were revived, and after an initial indecision, the Swiss federation affiliated the newly elected President and Secretary General of the with the Union during the Assembly, while the United Sta- ISSF were able to re-establish a cooperative relationship tes of America joined later during the same year. Between with the Olympic Committee. Four Shooting sport events 1909 and 1914 eight more countries followed, fulfilling were included in the London 1948 program. the desire of the ISSF to make the Union an international sport organization. This era of the Federation saw member federations from all five continents join the ISSF, paving the way for the or- In 1916, as the 1st World War caused the cancellation ganization of continental Shooting competition, governed of the Olympic Games, expected to take place in Berlin, and managed by the respective continental confedera- Germany, President Merillon delivered a written proposal tions working under the ISSF umbrella. In 1951, then, the to all the members, who voted for the dissolution of the Asian and the Pan-American Games were both created Union. The French national federation was entrusted to as multi-sport competitions and Shooting was accepted take care of the ISSF records and properties. as a sport in both. Four years later, at the end of the conflict, the same Da- At the General Assembly held in Rome, Italy, in 1960, when niel Merillon invited the former member federations to a the Italian capital also hosted the Olympic Games, Presi- 6 RIO 2016 ISSF Media Guide dent Carlsson decided not to run to extend his presidency. In 1998, the ISSF General Assembly formally introduced The Assembly, composed by the record number of 55 de- the word Sport in the Federation’s modern name: Interna- legates, elected Dr. Kurt Hasler, who was President of the tional Shooting Sport Federation. Swiss shooting federation, as the fourth ISSF President. 21ST CENTURY: Six years later, in 1966, all the Shooting sport matches THE INNOVATION OF THE SPORT were recognized as mixed events, where women and men The number of Shooting events at the Olympic Games could compete together. The IOC also agreed to apply changed constantly along the course of history, and this standard to the Olympic Shooting events, and for four reached the current number of 15 when, after Athens Olympiads, from 1968 to 1980, men and women battled 2004, the women’s Double Trap and 10m Running Target for the Shooting Gold medals regardless of their gender.