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The first ISSF World Shooting Championships were held in 1897, and while the Olympic shooting program changed heavily until the 1930s, the World Championship program was quite stable. The early events were 300 metre rifle, 50 metre pistol (added 1900), and 300 metre army rifle (added 1911).
The International Shooting Sport Federation, aka ISSF, is the governing body of Olympic shooting events.It also regulates several non-Olympic shooting sport events.The Federation's activities include regulation of the sport, managing Olympic qualification events and quota places, and organisation of tournaments like the World Cup and World Championships.
May 17–20: 6th INTARSO Reflex Shooting Cup in Genk; May 22 – June 9: Green Cup Shotgun in Umbria; May 25–26: Polar Grand Prix 2024 - Trap in Orimattila; June 7–9: ISSF Target Sprint Grand Prix of GER in Germany; June 19–30: Emir Cup 2024 in Umbria; June 25 – July 8: Grand Prix Battle of Crete in Chania
The 53rd ISSF World Shooting Championships were held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 14 August to 1 September 2023. They also served as a qualification event for the 2024 Summer Olympics . [ 2 ]
The 2024 ISSF World Cup is the annual edition of the ISSF World Cup in the Olympic shooting events, governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Calendar [ edit ]
This article details the qualifying phase for shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics. 300 quota places for the Games are entitled to the shooters coming from their respective NOCs, based on the results at designated ISSF supervised Championships subjected to the ISSF rules from 14 August 2022 to 9 June 2024.
The ISSF World Shooting Championships are governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation.World Shooting Championships began in 1897, after the successful 1896 Summer Olympics, and although the ISSF was not founded until 1907, these early competitions are still seen by the organization as the beginning of a continuous row of championships.
The ISSF World Cup was introduced by the International Shooting Sport Federation in 1986 to provide a homogeneous system for qualification to the Olympic shooting competitions. It still is carried out in the Olympic shooting events, with four competitions per year in each event. For the best shooters there is since 1988 a World Cup Final.