sexta-feira, 29 de abril de 2016

Denysiuk looking to further Rio 2016 claim at IPC Shooting World Cup in Szczecin

By Michael Pavitt
Friday, 29 April 2016

Officials have been making preparations ahead of the World Cup in Szczecin which begins on May 1 ©Facebook/IPC Shooting

Oleksii Denysiuk will look to stake his claim for a place on the Ukrainian shooting team for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games when he competes at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting World Cup in Szczecin.

The competition in the Polish city, which is scheduled to begin on Sunday (May 1), will be the final chance for athletes to shoot at a World Cup ahead of the Games.

Although Rio 2016 quota places have already been decided, athletes will be looking to impress their national coaches as they look to secure their spots at the Paralympics, where competition will take place from September 8 to 14.

Having earned three gold medals at the World Cup in Bangkok last month, Denysiuk will be expected to make his Paralympic debut later his year.

He will hope to further his claim for selection by achieving further success in Poland at the four-day event.

Slovakia’s world and European champion Veronika Vadovicova will be the shooter to watch in the women’s events, when she competes in the R2 10 metre air rifle standing SH1 and R3 mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1.

Slovakian star Veronika Vadovicova will be expected to earn medals in Szczecin ©Getty Images

Athletes line up for last IPC Shooting World Cup ahead of Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

04/29/16

Nearly 140 athletes from more than 35 countries will take their last competitive shots before the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games from Sunday (1 May), at the IPC Shooting World Cup in Szczecin, Poland.

Whilst quota places for Rio 2016 have already been decided, shooters will try to make their case for selection.

Live results will be available at www.paralympic.org/shooting/live-results between 1-4 May.

The Polish duo of European champion Filip Rodzik and silver medallist Slawomir Okoniewski headline the field for the hosts in P1 (men’s 10m air pistol SH1).

They will both be hoping for a good performance having last reached the podium in Szczecin in 2013.

However Ukrainian Oleksii Denysiuk is looking to confirm his place on the team for his first Paralympic Games after winning three gold medals at the World Cup in Bangkok, Thailand, in March.

In P2 (women’s 10m air pistol SH1), former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s Olivera Nakovska-Bikova will make her much anticipated 2016 debut.

The World Championships bronze medallist will face current equal world No.1 Olga Kovalchuk of Ukraine.

On the rifle range, Slovakia’s world and European champion Veronika Vadovicova highlights the entries in R2 (women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1) and R3 (mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1).

Vadovicova has taken every opportunity to compete this year, and has already picked up three gold medals in both events and a world record in R3.

Germany’s Natascha Hiltrop, the European R3 champion, will try to prevent Vadovicova from dominating again.

Alongside them Australia’s Elizabeth Kosmala, a true legend of the sport, is celebrating 40 years since she entered her first Paralympic Games at Toronto 1976.

New Zealand’s Michael Johnson, a Paralympic bronze medallist, will make his season debut in R4 (mixed 10 air rifle standing SH2).

Serbia’s World Championships silver medallist and European champion Dragan Ristic will look to make an impact in R5 (mixed 10m air rifle prone SH2) over Worlds podium finisher Johnson.

Germany’s Josef Neumaier is in the midst of his preparations for his fifth Paralympic Games at Rio 2016, and will take aim in R1 (men’s 10m air rifle standing SH1).

Non-Paralympic events of falling target pistol and rifle will also be contested, as well as P5 (mixed 10m air pistols standard SH1).

The 2016 IPC Shooting World Cup in Szczecin will be the final competition ahead of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

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World records tumble as Rio shooting venue hits its targets

RIO 2016

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28/04/2016

The test event for the shooting competitions at Rio 2016 finished with a wonderful flourish, with two new world records, and a third record matched.

On 22 April, Croatia’s Snjezana Pejcic scored 594 points out of a maximum 600 in the qualification round for the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions, beating the previous record of 592 points. The following day, Alexei Klimov of Russia matched the world record of 35 points in the final of the men’s 25m pistol.

Then on the final day of competition, Hui Zicheng of China scored 463.7 points in the final of the men's 50m rifle 3 positions, an improvement of 1.2 points on the previous benchmark.

Zicheng’s performance pushed the USA’s Matthew Emmons, a three-time Olympic medallist, into second place.

Running over 10 days from 15 to 24 April, the third stage of the 2016 World Cup Series of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) was the largest single test event for Rio 2016. It provided ample opportunity to test every detail of the infrastructure and operations of the Olympic Shooting Centre, which is part of the Deodoro Olympic complex in the west of Rio.

Zicheng’s record-breaking exploits, helped China to finish the competition at the top of the table with seven medals in total, including two golds, ahead of Russia in second and Ukraine in third.

The skeet events, which take place outdoors, produced some upsets with many of the big names present missing out on the podium. Marcus Svensson of Sweden won the first gold medal of his career, getting the better of India’s Mairaj Ahmad Khan for in a tie-breaking shoot-off.

“It’s so great to win in Rio,” he enthused. “The ranges are beautiful, I shot really well and I’m glad to be here. It will be great to come back in a few months,” Svensson said after the medal ceremony. For Khan, silver was his first medal of any colour in ISSF World Cup events, after 15 years of competing.

Vincent Hancock of the USA, the reigning ISSF world champion, who won gold in the skeet at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, came fifth. Afterwards, the American was presented with the 2015 ISSF Men’s Shooter of the Year Award. “Rio is very cool” he said. “I will be back in August to try and win another gold.”

In the women’s skeet, Thailand’s Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit won her first World Cup gold medal, beating triple Olympic champion and shooting legend Kimberly Rhode of the USA into second place.

Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl

Source: Olympic.org

Official website of the Olympic Movemen

quinta-feira, 28 de abril de 2016

Double trap set to make way for mixed-gender events

Double trap, the event that gave India its first shooting medal at Olympic Games through Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's silver at Athens Double trap, is all set to lose its Olympic status after the Rio Games.

According to the International Olympic Association's Agenda 2020, all international sports federations have been asked to make changes to their sport to promote gender equality by the 2020 Tokyo Games.

The International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) has proposed some changes, where double trap, along with men's rifle prone event may be dropped from the Olympic Games to allow new events which will see more women participation at the Olympic Games.

"The changes have been proposed and there are chances of them getting approved at the ISSF meeting which will be held in September this year," said National Rifle Association of India's president Raninder Singh, who is also one of the executive committee members of the ISSF.

"In view of IOC's gender equality programme of Agenda 2020, the idea is to have more events for women participants. If dropped, double trap and men's rifle prone events will be replaced by mixed team events in the same category," he added.

Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports

100 days to go to Rio 2016. Follow the Olympic Flame journey

Follow the Olympic Flame journey

Wednesday 27 April marks a significant milestone in the build-up to the Olympic Games Rio 2016. Only 100 days now remain until the Opening Ceremony, the countdown has well and truly begun.

With the lighting of the Olympic Flame in Ancient Olympia last week and the start of the Olympic Torch Relay, there is a growing sense that the Games are just around the corner. Another milestone in the countdown was completed today as the Flame was officially handed over to Rio 2016 - on 100 days to go - at a special ceremony held at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, the venue for the inaugural Olympic Games of the modern era back in 1896.

Before embarking on its three-month journey around Brazil, which starts in Brasilia on 3 May and will see it being carried by 12,000 people through every state capital and over 300 towns en route to the Maracana Stadium in Rio, the Olympic Flamewill make a short stopover in Switzerland. Following a ceremony at United Nations in Geneva on Friday, it will briefly go on display at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

Shooting sport events in Rio will start in… 101 days. Shooting will indeed assign the very first Gold medal of the Games on the 6th of August, the day after the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony.

Starting from there, 390 shooters coming from all over the world will compete in the 15 Olympic shooting events - in the disciplines of Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun Shooting - at the Olympic Shooting Center in Deodoro.

Read more about the Olympic Flame journey on www.olympic.org and www.rio2016.com, and follow the @OlympicFlameon Twitter

Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl

Source - ISSF Website

quarta-feira, 27 de abril de 2016

Equipe Brasileira composta com 9 atletas, definida para os Jogos Olímpicos

NOTÍCIAS

24/04/2016

Nove atletas brasileiros classificados para a Rio 2016

Com a definição de Julio Almeida para única vaga olímpica que ainda faltava ser preenchido, o time brasileiro está definido para os Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016. Nove atletas voltarão em agosto ao Centro Olímpico de Tiro: três mulheres e seis homens. O presidente da Confederação Brasileira de Tiro Esportivo - CBTE, Durval Balen, afirmou que está em negociação com o Comitê Rio 2016 para que os atletas possam utilizar as instalações olímpicas, de forma a aprimorar seus treinamentos no local onde serão disputados os Jogos. A solicitação de Durval conta com o apoio de Olegario Vasquez Raña, presidente da ISSF. Conheça a lista dos brasileiros:

Cassio Rippel - carabina deitado 50m, carabina de ar 10m e carabina 3 posicoes

Daniela Carraro - skeet feminino

Emerson Duarte - pistola tiro rápido 25m

Felipe Wu - pistola de ar 10m e pistola 50m

Janice Teixeira - fossa olimpica feminina

Julio Almeida - pistola de ar 10m e pistola 50m

Renato Portella - skeet masculino

Roberto Schmits - fossa olimpica masculina

Rosane Budag - carabina de ar e carabina 3 posicoes

Por: CBTE

segunda-feira, 25 de abril de 2016

Tokyo 2020 emblems officially unveiled today

Following an open competition, which engaged over 14 thousand designs, the emblems of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were unveiled in Tokyo today.

Tokyo 2020 today unveiled the official emblems of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, “Harmonized Chequered Emblems.”

In Japan, the chequered pattern became formally known as “ichimatsu moyo” in the Edo period (1603–1867), and this chequered design in the traditional Japanese colour of indigo blue expresses a refined elegance and sophistication that exemplifies Japan. Composed of three varieties of rectangular shapes, the design represents different countries, cultures and ways of thinking. It incorporates the message of “Unity in Diversity.” It also conveys the fact that the Olympic and Paralympic Games seek to promote diversity as a platform to connect the world.

The design was selected following an open competition, which has actively engaged the public over the past seven months. After having shortlisted four designs out of 14,599 received from all over the world, the Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee selected today the entry submitted by designer Asao Tokolo prior to obtaining the final approval of the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board.

Before making its decision and following the unveiling of the four shortlisted emblem designs, the Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee received opinions expressed by 39,712 members of the public online and 1,804 postcards.

Ryohei Miyata, Chair of the Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee, commented, “From today, these emblems will serve as the face of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. I very much hope that the emblems will prove popular with people everywhere, and we look forward to your continued support towards the Tokyo 2020 Games.”

Asao Tokolo, and the three runners-up – Kozue Kuno (Design B), Takaaki Goto (Design C), Chie Fujii (Design D) – all received an award during a ceremony held in Tokyo today. Born in 1969, Asao Tokolo lives in Tokyo. He graduated in Architecture from Tokyo Zokei University, and is currently active as an artist. His works have been featured in several exhibitions in Japan.

The ceremony was attended by John Coates, IOC Vice President and Chair of the IOC Coordination Commission for Tokyo 2020; Alex Gilady, IOC member and Vice-Chair of IOC Coordination Commission for Tokyo 2020; Miguel Sagarra, IPC Governing Board member; Yoichi Masuzoe, Governor of Tokyo; Tsunekazu Takeda, IOC Member and Japanese Olympic Committee President; Mitsunori Torihara, Japanese Paralympic Committee Chairman of the Board; and Yoshiro Mori, Tokyo 2020 President.

John Coates commented, “The new Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 emblem symbolizes important elements of the Tokyo 2020 Games vision and the underlying concepts of achieving personal best, unity in diversity and connecting to tomorrow. I congratulate the Tokyo 2020 team for the inclusive process that led to this selection. The public engagement in the selection process is another sign of growing interest in the 2020 Games. Interest and excitement will continue to build, in Japan and globally, after the official handoff to Tokyo 2020 at the close of the upcoming Olympic Games Rio 2016. The Tokyo 2020 emblem will become a familiar symbol to people around the world.”

Miguel Sagarra said, “I would like to congratulate the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee on the launch of this Paralympic emblem which, over the coming years, will become synonymous with high performance sport and promoting societal change. I would like to thank the 14,599 people who originally submitted designs, the Japanese public for sharing their opinions on the final shortlist of four and the Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee for their efforts in selecting the final Olympic and Paralympic emblems. The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games emblem is something that will be fully embraced, not just by the people of Japan and Asia, but by citizens around the world. The Paralympic Games are the world’s number one sporting event for driving social inclusion and this emblem not only conveys the qualities and traditions of Japan but the excellence of the Para athletes we can expect to see competing in Tokyo in four years’ time.”

Yoshiro Mori said, “It is my most earnest wish that the winning emblems, which have been selected from among almost 15,000 design entries, will receive wide acclaim as the symbols of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.”

Marco Dalla Dea

Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl

Source - ISSF Website

Sweden gets the last laugh as Marcus Svensson closes the World Cup stage in Rio with the Skeet Men Gold medal

Finals Skeet Men

ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol / Shotgun · Rio de Janeiro, BRA

Svensson improved his previous best result, a Silver medal he pocketed last year in Larnaca (CYP). In the Gold medal match, Italy’s first time semifinalist Tammaro Cassandro prevailed over the 2011 ISSF World Champion Juan Jose Aramburu of Spain.

Marcus Svensson of Sweden sealed the ISSF World Cup stage in Rio de Janeiro (BRA) with the Skeet Men Gold medal, and emerging as the winner of an unexpected Gold medal match against India’s Mairaj Ahmad Khan.

After they both hit 15 semifinal targets, Svensson and Khan finished tied also at the end of the regular course of the match, where they both crushed 14 clays. In the subsequent tie-breaking shoot-off, Khan missed on his very first double, delivering the first Gold medal of his career to Marcus Svensson.

“It’s so great to win in Rio! The ranges are beautiful, I shot really really well and I’m glad to be here. It will be great to come back in a few months!” Said Svensson after the medal ceremony.

“In August my goal will be to enter the semifinal, then anything can happen.” He continued, talking about his vision for Rio 2016. “I don’t think there will be much space for surprises. It will be the six best Skeet shooters in the world.” Svensson concluded.

A three-way shoot-off was required to determine the two participants of the Bronze medal match, as at the end of the semifinal round Tammaro Cassandro of Italy, Vincent Hancock of the United States and Juan Jose Aramburu of Spain all finished with 14 target hits.

Hancock, the reigning ISSF World Champion and a two time Olympic Gold medallist, surprisingly missed first and concluded in 5th place. Despite staying out of the medal matches, Hancock was honoured immediately after the medal ceremony with the 2015 ISSF Men’s Shooter of the Year Award, delivered to him by the President of the ISSF, Mr. Olegario Vazquez Raña and by the Secretary General of the ISSF, Mr. Franz Schreiber.

The match for the 3rd step of the podium saw Cassandro, another first-time semifinalist in the ISSF World Cup, perform the perfect match. He crushed all of his targets, claiming the Bronze medal with 16 hits against Aramburu’s 15.

6th, with 13 semifinal hits, placed Anton Astakhov of the Russian Federation.

The ISSF World Cup Series will now fly to Munich (GER), where, from May 19th to May 26th an ISSF World Cup stage in Rifle/Pistol events will take place.

RESULTS - Skeet Men

1. SVENSSON Marcus

2. KHAN Mairaj Ahmad

3. CASSANDRO Tammaro

24.04.2016

Marco Vettoretti

Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl

Source - ISSF Website

domingo, 24 de abril de 2016

Another FWR is set in Rio as China’s Hui pockets the Rifle 3 Positions Gold medal

Finals 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men

ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol / Shotgun · Rio de Janeiro, BRA

Hui Zicheng of the People’s Republic of China battled with his teammate Zhu Qinan for most of the match, taking the lead at the earliest stage of the standing series. Zhu then finished 3rd behind Matthew Emmons of the United States of America.

A third World Record has been set at the Olympic Shooting Centre in Rio de Janeiro (BRA), where the ISSF World Cup stage in all events will conclude today.

After the Equalled Final World Record achieved yesterday by Russia’s Alexei Klimov in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men event, and the new World Record set by Snjezana Pejcic in the 3 Positions Women event on Friday, China’s shooter Hui Zicheng set his own one, commanding the final of the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men event and writing a new page of the record books.

USA’s Matthew Emmons, Bronze medallist in this event at the London 2012 Olympic Games, placed 2nd, closing the gap with Hui during the final shots of the match, but surrendering to the Chinese almost-perfect 10.8 that sealed the Gold medal.

Hui finished with 463.7 points, setting a new Final World Record in this event. The previous one was fired by Russian Federation’s Nazar Louginets in Munich in 2014. Emmons recorded a final score of 461.6 points, and his Silver medal is the third one collected by the United States of America in this competition.

In the lead after both the kneeling and the prone series, Hui’s teammate Zhu Qinan finished 3rd with 451.2 points, followed by Ukraine’s Serhiy Kulish with 439.6.

Russia’s Sergey Kamenskiy, the Bronze medallist in Monday’s 10m Air Rifle Men event, placed 5th with 428.1 points, after overtaking Italian shooter Marco De Nicolo on the edge of an elimination. De Nicolo then concluded in 6th place with 417.3 points.

Eliminated after the 40th shot, Anton Rizov of Bulgaria placed 8th with 393.9, more than ten points behind Hungary’s Peter Sidi, 7th with 404.6, also eliminated after the 10th shot of the standing position.

The ISSF World Cup stage in Rio de Janeiro will continue this afternoon with the Skeet Men final, scheduled at 3:30 PM (UTC-3).

News and updates will be available on the ISSF official website and on its social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter,Instagram and Weibo. While highlights of all the finals will be available on YouTube and Youku.

RESULTS - 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men

1. HUI Zicheng

2. EMMONS Matthew

3. ZHU Qinan

24.04.2016

Marco Vettoretti

Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl

Source - ISSF Website

sábado, 23 de abril de 2016

Alexei Klimov’s Gold medal is worth the equalled Final World Record in Rapid Fire Pistol

Finals 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men

ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol / Shotgun · Rio de Janeiro, BRA

The Russian shooter absolutely dominated the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men event, eventually matching the points Riccardo Mazzetti scored at the Beijing (CHN) World Cup stage in 2014. United States’ Keith Sanderson concluded 2nd, followed by France’s Jean Quiquampoix in 3rd place.

The second final of today’s schedule at the ISSF World Cup stage in Rio de Janeiro (BRA) crowned Russian Federation’s Alexei Klimov as the undisputed Gold medallist of the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men event.

Klimov started the competition with two perfect series of 5 hits, distancing himself form all of his rival since the very beginning. He then led the pack all along the match, scoring a perfect 5 in three more series, also securing the Gold medal and the equalled Final World Record of the event.

“I am happy that I won. I worked hard work in preparation of this event, and here’s the result. This victory is not an accident I was meaning to win and I am not going to be stopped on this,” declared Klimov after the medal ceremony. “On the other side, it’s so hot here at the range! We are all sweating. Anyway, even if range is not ready yet, you can say it’s a real luxurious one. It just needs some adjustments.”

“There are no friends in sport.” He concluded talking about Silver medallist Keith Sanderson, who paused before shooting his last series to congratulate with Klimov. “We are good competitors and I will always help him in case he needs me. It’s not a matter of nation, you could be American, German, Chinese. That’s the motto of sport: whatever happens, all athletes were, are and will be friends and fair competitors.”

USA’s Sanderson, who closed the match with four consecutive 4-points series, pocketed the Silver medal with 31 points.

After surviving two eliminations, Germany’s Oliver Geis, Gold medallist at last year’s World Cup stage in Fort Benning (USA), finished 4th, losing a shoot-off with Quiquampoix to stay in the competition after the sixth series.

Klimov’s teammate, Leonid Ekimov, placed 5th with 17 points, while a second German shooter concluded in 6th place, as Oliver Geis finished with 13 points.

Medal standings after 13 out of 15 events

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	RUS	2	2	1	5
2	UKR	2		1	3
3	ESP	2			2
4	CHN	1	2	2	5
5	GER	1	1	2	4
6	AUS	1	1		2
6	BUL	1	1		2
8	CRO	1			1
8	THA	1			1
8	TPE	1			1
11	USA		2	1	3
12	SRB		1	1	2
13	BEL		1		1
13	KOR		1		1
13	LIB		1		1
16	FRA			1	1
16	GUA			1	1
16	MGL			1	1
16	SIN			1	1
16	SVK			1	1
		13	13	13	39

The ISSF World Cup stage in Rio de Janeiro will end tomorrow with two matches: the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men final, scheduled at 1:00 PM (UTC-3), and the Skeet Men final, scheduled at 3:30 PM.