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Shooting Sport: a founding member of the Olympic family
Founding the Federation On July 17th, 1907, after Shooting appeared at the very first edition of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, representatives of seven national shooting federations met in Zurich, Switzerland, to formally establish L’Union International des Federations et Associations Nationals de Tir, the International Union of National Shooting Federations and Associations in English.
The nations represented in what would be remembered as the first ISSF General Assembly were Argentina, Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Italy and Netherlands.
A quote in the first ISSF Constitution adopted in 1907 described the purpose of the Union as “to establish a bond of friendship between the major Shooting federations of all nations in the world.”
Daniel Merillon, a 55-year-old lawyer from Paris, France, and then President of L’Union des Societes de Tir de France, was elected as the first President of the ISSF.
The entire meeting took about two hours, with one record stating that there were not even any chairs in the room, but it gave birth to a new international sports federation that was destined to grow from these modest beginning to become one of the largest sports governing body.
The expansion and the first hiatus
In 1908, the second General Assembly in the history of the Federation was held in Vienna, Austria. There, three new member federations were also represented. Furthermore, after an initial indecision, the Swiss federation affiliated with the Union during the Assembly, while the United States of America joined later during the same year. Between 1909 and 1914 eight more countries followed, fulfilling the desire of the ISSF to make the Union an international sport organization.
In 1916, as the 1st World War caused the cancellation of the Olympic Games, expected to take place in Berlin, Germany, President Merillon delivered a written proposal to all the members, who voted for the dissolution of the Union. The French national federation was entrusted to take care of the ISSF records and properties.
Four years later, at the end of the conflict, the same Daniel Merillon invited the former member federations to a meeting in Paris, with the purpose of renewing the ISSF activities. Representatives of 14 countries agreed to reestablish the Federation under the name L’Union Internationale de Tir, while Daniel Merillon was re-elected as the President.
Bonding with the IOC
After 21 Shooting sport events were included in the program of the 1920 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee decided in 1921 that the ISSF regulations were to govern the Shooting events in the 1924 Olympiad. This decision marked a first, tangible step in forging a union between the IOC and the ISSF. A bond that was going to have a profound impact on the Federation’s future.
Second hiatus and rebuilding
The 1940 Olympic Games could not take place because of the 2nd World War, and for the second time in history the ISSF decided to suspend its operations. The ISSF records and archives were transported by Karl August Larsson, Secretary General of the Swedish national federation, from Paris to Stockholm, where they could be protected in a neutral nation.
Larsson would then be elected as the Secretary General of the ISSF in 1947, when, after the conclusion of the war, eight member federations agreed to hold a World Championship and a General Assembly in Stockholm. Erik Carlsson, President of the Swedish Shooting Federation, was also elected as the third President in the history of the ISSF.
The following year the Olympic Games were revived, and the newly elected President and Secretary General of the ISSF were able to re-establish a cooperative relationship with the Olympic Committee. Four Shooting sport events were included in the London 1948 program.
This era of the Federation saw member federations from all five continents join the ISSF, paving the way for the organization of continental Shooting competition, governed and managed by the respective continental confederations working under the ISSF umbrella. In 1951, then, the Asian and the Pan-American Games were both created as multi-sport competitions and Shooting was accepted as a sport in both.
At the General Assembly held in Rome, Italy, in 1960, when the Italian capital also hosted the Olympic Games, President Carlsson decided not to run to extend his presidency. The Assembly, composed by the record number of 55 delegates, elected Dr. Kurt Hasler, who was President of the Swiss shooting federation, as the fourth ISSF President.
Six years later, in 1966, all the Shooting sport matches were recognized as mixed events, where women and men could compete together. The IOC also agreed to apply this standard to the Olympic Shooting events, and for four Olympiads, from 1968 to 1980, men and women battled for the Shooting Gold medals regardless of their gender.
The modern era of the ISSF
In 1976, after serving for 16 years as the ISSF President, Dr. Kurt Hasler decided not to run for a re-election, followed by former First Vice President George Vichos, a Greek lawyer who was elected with just one vote in his favour. Vichos presidency, however, lasted only 4 years, as in 1980 the ISSF General Assembly held in Mexico City elected former Mexican shooter Olegario Vazquez Raña with 125 of the 132 votes available.
The 1980 General Assembly also elected a new Secretary General: Mr. Horst G. Schreiber, a prominent attorney in Munich who had successfully served in leadership roles in many sports.
An Olympic qualification system was developed in 1986 under the suggestion of the International Olympic Committee: the ISSF established a new series of World Cups, including them in the Olympic qualification process, and recognizing scores fired during the World Cup Series as official World Records. The following year, two annual ISSF World Cup Finals were also established.
In 1998, the ISSF General Assembly formally introduced the word Sport in the Federation’s modern name: International Shooting Sport Federation.
21st Century: the innovation of the sport
The number of Shooting events at the Olympic Games changed constantly along the course of history and reached the current number of 15 when, after Athens 2004, the women’s Double Trap and 10m Running Target event were deleted.
One century after that first meeting in Zurich, the 17th of July 2007, ISSF celebrated his 100 years anniversary. The Federation, composed now by over 160 national federation members in 146 countries of the five continents, has grown to become the world governing body of four shooting disciplines, pistol, rifle, running target and shotgun that include 15 Olympic and 55 World Championship events.
Following a long-lasting traditions, Shooting sport assigned the first Gold medal of the Olympic Games both in Beijing and in London. The same will happen in Rio de Janeiro.
At the end of London 2012, the ISSF introduced major changes to its rules. Finalists of the 15 Olympic Shooting events will now start their match from zero, without carrying forward the qualification score. Furthermore, in the 5 Shotgun events and the 25m Pistol for Women semifinals and medal matches are introduced, while the other 9 Rifle and Pistol final matches will be conducted in a progressive-elimination style.
The ISSF General Assembly that took place in Munich (GER) in 2014 re-elected Mr. Olegario Vazquez Raña as the ISSF President for his ninth consecutive Presidential term since his first election in 1980. Mr. Franz Schreiber was also elected as the new ISSF Secretary General by unanimous decision of the Assembly. That same year, the 51st ISSF World Championship in all events took place in Granada (ESP), with the participation of over 2000 athletes, who piled up almost 3200 starts and competed in 53 events. It was the first ISSF competition that assigned Olympic quota places for Rio 2016. A distribution process that ended in Gyor (HUN) in February 2016.
RIO 2016 ISSF Media Guide
Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl
Source - http://www.issf-sports.org/media/calendar/2016/1664/OG%20BRA%202016%20ISSF%20Media%20Guide.pdf
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