NEW
ISSF 2013-2016 RULES: COMPETITIONS WILL START FROM ZERO, AND END IN A DUEL
New Shooting Finals start from zero, feature
eliminations, and end up in a duel
Major changes include new Finals for all
Olympic events. The new rules contain new Finals formats for all Olympic events
where all finalists start from zero. This means that qualification’s score will
not be carried into the final anymore, making the scoring system immediately
understandable for the spectators.Furthermore, all Finals feature eliminations,
and end with duels between the two best athletes to decide the gold and silver
medals. This step was taken to engage a worldwide public by attracting
spectators and fans through an appealing and easily understandable competition
format. Detailed rules for all new Finals are included in the 2013 Rules
which are already published on the ISSF website. These new Finals will be
used in all 2013 ISSF Championships. The new ISSF Rules also include small
increases in difficulty in Skeet and Double Trap, the separation of sighting
and match firing in 10m and 50m rifle and pistol events, a new position order
for 50m Rifle 3 Positions events and a provisional test of decimal scoring for
10m Air Rifle and 50m Prone Rifle events. The Final for the 50m Rifle 3
Positions events is now a 3 Positions Final, not a one-position Final like it
use to be, and will include changing times from one position to the other. New
skill elements like reverse doubles on stations 3 and 5 in Skeet and making
rapid position changes in 3-position rifle Finals will add interest. Both 25m
Pistol Finals will use hit-miss scoring to encourage more spontaneous spectator
reactions.
“An important step forward to keep a leading position”
ISSF President said
“Changing is necessary, to keep our
sport on top.” The ISSF President, Mr. Olegario Vazquez Raña said.
“The
Shooting Sport has always been a leading sport in the Olympic movement. And
with the new finals we made an important step forward to keep that leading
position.” The ISSF President said.
“This
is the major step forward since the introduction of Final matches in 1986. It
was time to change.” The ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber said, at the
ISSF Organizers Workshop, where the new rules were presented today.
“The
ISSF has always been open to innovation, and we are proving it once again. All
sport must adapt to the digital era of technology and media. The time has come
to adopt new finals which fulfil these objective.” Secretary General Franz
Schreiber added.
“New
Challenges means new opportunities.” The ISSF Vice-President Gary Anderson
said. “We have new finals, and we will have to work hard to make this working.
But our sport will benefit of this new, appealing format.”
“I am a true supporter of the decimal scores in the
qualification round. The qualification proces was not sensitive enough for air
rifle and prone.” London 2012 Olympic Champion Niccolò
Campriani of Italy said, after taking part in the testing of
the new rules.
“When ISSF invited me to participate in
the new 3p final test in Munich I accepted their offer as I felt that, as well
as gaining first hand experience of the new format, I would also have the
opportunity to meet with and exchange views and opinions with the ISSF
leaders.” Campriani added.
Decimal Scoring for 10m Air Rifle and 50m Prone
Rifle.
With so many highly skilled athletes
competing in these events today, it has become even more important to have
qualification competitions that truly advance the best athletes to the
Finals. Making it to the final is frequently a matter of one shot that
scores a 10.0 or a 9.9; the difference between making or not making a Final can
be less than one-fourth of a millimeter on that one shot. Decimal scoring
virtually eliminates the decisive role that one close shot can play in deciding
finalists and provides a far more accurate way to decide the best shooters in
the qualification. The ISSF plans to use decimal scoring in the 10m Air Rifle
Men, 10m Air Rifle Women and 50m Prone Rifle Men events in the 2013 World
Cups. This will be evaluated at the end of the 2013 Championship season
and decisions will then be made on whether to use decimal scoring for those
events on a permanent basis or to use decimal scoring for all 10m and 50m
elimination and qualification competitions. Decimal scoring requires
either electronic scoring targets or electronic scoring for paper
targets. National federations or shooting clubs are not required to use
decimal scoring, but many that have electronic scoring available will find that
it adds fairness and interest to these events. In addition to these changes, the
position order in 50m 3 Positions Rifle is changed from prone-standing-kneeling
to kneeling-prone-standing to bring the qualification order in line with the
order that will be followed in 3-position rifle Finals.
Shotgun events are changing
Both Skeet and Double Trap qualification
rounds have changes designed to add additional difficulty to these events that
now have so many high scores. The target throwing distance in Skeet is
increased from 66m +/- 1m to 68m +/- 1m. In addition, the firing order is
changed so that the two station 4 doubles will be fired after station 7 and
just before station 8. This means that the most difficult targets must be
shot near the end of a round of Skeet instead of in the middle. Double
Trap qualification is changed from three series of 50 targets (25 pair) or
three series of 40 targets for women to five series of 30 targets (15 pair) for
men and four series of 30 targets for women. What makes Double Trap more
difficult is that random schemes will now be used to determine the target
combinations that are thrown (scheme A, B or C).
New ISSF Rulebook
The new 2013 ISSF Rulebook, which will be effective
from the 1st of
January 2013 and used for all the 2013 ISSF World Cup Stages, is available for
download at: http://www.issf-sports.org/theissf/rules/english_rulebook.ashx
Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl
Read more in the ISSF Website
Sources - ISSF Website http://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx
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