CONFEDERATÓN
AMERICANA DE TIRO
December 11, 2013
To all national shooting federations of America
Dear members
As we look forward to the Games of 2016 in Rio de
Janeiro, exciting times lay ahead for our
CAT member federations. The
2015 Pan American
Games will be
held in Toronto, Canada at an excellent shooting
venue, the Toronto International Trap & Skeet Club, with a beautiful satellite
villa for our
shooters, at just
10 minutes driving.
At recent Pan American
Games, entries by
our member federations
to participate have
exceeded the PASO athlete
limit of 250 athletes.
Recently, we have
attempted to increase
the authorized participation without
success, as PASO wants
to keep the
total limit of
less than 6,000 athletes
during the games. Many
sports received participation
reductions for 2015, so keeping
our quota for Toronto its not too bad, after all. To alleviate this situation and provide
fair participation for
all member federations,
a quota program
has been developed for the 2015
Pam Am Games. The qualifying system will allow federations to better plan
and train for
the Pan Ams
and 2016 Olympic
qualifying opportunities. That quota award system is attached along
with a short explanation.
For the first
time, Pan Am
participation quotas will
be awarded at
the 2014 South American Games
next march in
Santiago, Chile, also during the
CA and Caribbean Games in Veracruz and finally the CAT
Championship at Guadalajara,
Mexico October 11-20. The
CAT invitation, program
and detailed schedule
will be available
later this month. Using a quota
system for Pan Am qualification will help some federations receive government support
to participate at the CAT
championship that will
consist of the Olympic events for open and junior athletes.
In
consideration of the
new qualifying program
for the Pan American
Games Toronto 2015, the 2016
Olympic quota allocation
has been amended
slightly that shifts
some quotas from the
CAT championship to
the Pan Am
Games.
The new Olympic
quota allocation table is attached. The Americas will have two ISSF
world cups in 2014. There will again be a RIFLE and PISTOL WC at
Fort Benning, Georgia 26
March to 3 April
and a SHOTGUN
WC at Tucson, Arizona
8-14 April. These
two world cups
provide excellent competition
at an economical cost for CAT
federations. Invitations and detailed schedules will be provided later this
month for both events.
Finally, as you
know, The 2014 II Youth Olympic Games (YOG) will be held at Nanjing, China,
16-22 august. YOG quota qualifying for the Americas will be in conjunction with
the Fort
Benning World Cup.
The first two
days of the
World Cup will
be open airgun shooting followed
by a day of official
training and two days of
YOG quota qualifying competition. Two
quotas will be
awarded in each
airgun event. Eligibility
is for young athletes born
between 1 January
1996 and 1
January 1999. The official invitation and schedule will be provided by USA Shooting
shortly.
I wish you good
shooting and success in the coming year!
Carlos Silva Monterroso
President
Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl
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