Although this bulletin was issued in November
2012, I’m posting it now as an important advice to alert everyone to the new
rules, it contains important information’s about changes in the Rules and
Regulations of shooting competitions and it should be known by all athletes and
officials. The new Rule Book can be accessed by everyone on the ISSF website
and it is important that all are aware of these changes, and bee prepared to
compete by the new Rules, because soon we will have the start of the World Cups
series of 2013.
Thom Erik Syrdahl
The new rules feature many important changes designed
to increase Shooting’s appeal to youth and make it more spectator and media
friendly, as well as to keep competitions fair and equal.
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.
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).
Changes in Rifle Equipment Rules
The 2013 Rules include many small
changes regarding rifle clothing and equipment. The ISSF objective in adopting
these changes is two-fold: 1) to
limit the use of performance-enhancing clothing and equipment while
maximizing the tests of skill, training and performance in rifle events, and 2) to keep competition conditions as equal
as possible for all rifle shooters. These changes were made because the
ISSF feels recent trends in the development of Rifle clothing, equipment and
accessories are in danger of going too far in providing performance-enhancing
capabilities. The 2013 ISSF Rules place reasonable limits on how far the
development of performance-enhancing rifle equipment can go.
Separate Sighting and Match Firing
Periods
Sighting shots are part of the
pre-competition warm-up process in Shooting. The new rules require sighting shots to be fired in a 15-minute
“Preparation and Sighting Period” before competition or match firing starts.
This new change will eliminate confusion for spectators, by completing warm-ups
before the competition starts.
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
Sources: ISSF website, Top News – official communications 23-11-2012
By Marco Dalla Dea
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