Vladimir Lisin, newly-elected President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), is to use $10 million (£7.9 million/€8.8 million) of his own money to establish a development fund for the sport.
Alexander Ratner, the new International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) secretary general, has spelt out the thinking behind the decision for both him and Vladimir Lisin, the new President, to put their weight behind shooting’s push for a place at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham today, arguing that the sport should be in "all the major competitions".
Italy secured consolation for Luciano Rossi’s narrow defeat in yesterday's International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Presidential election when Lonato del Garda beat off two rivals to win the 2019 ISSF World Shotgun Championship here today.
The new International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) leadership will visit the United Kingdom next week to promote shooting sport’s case for a place at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
A more than 60 per cent jump in expenditures pushed the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) significantly into deficit in 2017.
The tensions that simmer below the surface of even carefully-choreographed international sports gatherings like today’s landmark International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) General Assembly had become apparent even before this afternoon’s crunch Presidential vote.
Olegario Vázquez Raña was elected Honorary President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) here today, as his 38-year reign as President drew to a close.
Vladimir Lisin of Russia has been elected President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) in a dramatic knife-edge ballot at the body’s 68th General Assembly here today.
A new era will dawn for shooting sport here tomorrow when Mexico’s Olegario Vázquez Raña steps down from the Presidency of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) after nearly four decades.
Olegario Vázquez Raña can anticipate an emotional day tomorrow.
One of the candidates in tomorrow's International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Presidential election is being accompanied here by a police escort.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reacted to an alleged death threat against one of the candidates in the forthcoming International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Presidential election by enquiring whether all appropriate measures have been taken to guarantee the safety of the meeting where the vote will take place.
The forthcoming election of a new President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) has taken a bizarre and alarming twist with one of the candidates claiming to have received allegations of a death threat from an "untraceable email account".
International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Presidential candidate Luciano Rossi has claimed current head Olegario Vázquez Raña and Russian rival Vladimir Lisin struck a deal to exclude him from the race as he accused the two officials of "trying everything they could" to stop him standing.
Chinese Taipei took the final senior gold of the Asian Shotgun Championships as Jung Hung Shih and Wan-Yu Liu excelled in the mixed team trap at the Kuwait Shooting Club.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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FINA is facing an unprecedented threat with the top swimmers taking legal action against them after they were barred from competing in the new International Swimming League. But FINA President Julio Maglione claims the new concept would represent a threat to the future well-being of the sport, as he tells Mike Rowbottom.
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