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51st ISSF World Championship
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05-09-2014 11:44am#1From the ISSF website (with permission):
Over 2000 athletes coming from 100 countries, more than 50 events in 13 days of competitions, 64 Olympic quota places. These are the numbers of the 51st ISSF World Championship in all Shooting events that will be held in Granada (ESP) from the 7th through the 20th of September 2014.
It's the biggest ISSF competition, and it's the most important shooting sport event between London 2012 and Rio 2016: the 51st ISSF World Championship is indeed the first qualifier for the next Games. Everybody's here. Olympic and Continental Champions, title defenders, World Cup heroes, senior experts and young roosters: they are all competing to become the new World Champions and to secure a ticket to Brazil.
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All the finals of the 15 Olympic Shooting events will be broadcasted live, via satellite and on the internet. Broadcasters will have access to live TV footage through the Eurovision network. Shooting fans from all over the world will be able to access live coverage of the championship both on the ISSF website (www.issf-sports.org) and on the official ISSF YouTube channel.
Results, stories, interviews, photo galleries and video-on-demand will be posted every day on the ISSF website and on our social media pages, completing the offer of contents produced directly on the field of play.
The countdown is already ticking on the ISSF website www.issf-sports.org, measuring the time remaining before the first live transmission: only 3 days to go to the 10m Air Rifle Men final, the medal match that will open the 51st ISSF World Championship. Stay tuned!
(and photos go up on the official ISSF flickr account as well)
And for those watching from here, our own IRLConor will be representing Ireland next Wednesday in 50m Prone Rifle along with a seven-man shotgun team competing in Trap and Skeet:
Hard to underestimate how big a match this is, so being picked to represent your country in it is a huge deal, only the Olympics themselves pips it (and the competitive standard there is actually lower than at the World Championships). So congrats to Conor and all the shotgun shooters, well done lads!5
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From the ISSF website (with permission):
The 51st ISSF World Championship in all Shooting events officially kicked off in Granada, Spain, as the Opening Ceremony took place last night, Sunday, September 7, at the Teatro del Generalife of the Alhambra.
Over 2000 athletes coming from 94 countries are participating in the competition, held at the CEAR de Tiro Olimpico Juan Carlos I in Las Gabias, Granada, from the 7th through the 20th of September.
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The best shooting sport athletes of the world are here. Olympic and Continental Champions, title defenders, World Cup heroes, senior experts and YOG medallists: they are all competing to become the new World Champions and to secure a ticket to Brazil.
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For the first time in the history of the ISSF, Junior finals will be staged during this World Championship.
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The first medals and quota places will be awarded at today's 10m Air Rifle Men final, at 1.30 PM (Spanish time).
Live TV footage will be broadcasted via Eurovision and on the ISSF YouTube channel.
You can find live updates on the event on the ISSF website, Facebook page and Twitter profile; the same goes for the Organizing Committee, the Royal Spanish Shooting Federation (website, Facebook, Twitter). To find out even more and join the conversation, use the hashtag #GranWCH14.0 -
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From the ISSF website (with permission):YOG Champion Yang (CHN) wins the first Gold medal and Olympic Quota of Granada
He was the favorite, and he did not delude the expectation of the shooting sport fans. Yang Haoran, 18, from the People's Republic of China, won the first Gold medal of the 51st ISSF World Championship in all Shooting events in Granada, Spain, claiming the world champion title at today's 10m Air Rifle Men final.
Next to the Gold medal, he pocketed one of the six Olympic Quota places – the entry ticket to Rio 2016 – up for grabs at today's final.
“This is my Golden cake!” Yang said. “Today, in China, we celebrate the mid-autumn fest. That's a traditional occasion for family reunions, and we use to share the so-called moon cakes. Well... I am not in China, I won't get a moon cake today. So I want to share this victory with my parents. This medal is a golden cake for them.”
Ranked second in the world, Yang Haoran, arrived here in Granada after a huge victory at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, in front of his supporters.
Here in Granada, he qualified for the the final match in the best way, by setting a new Junior World Record of 632.1 points.
After a slow start in the final, he climbed up the scoreboard eventually overtaking Nazar Louginets, 25, of the Russian Federation after the 12th shot. From there on, he took-off, nailing a series of exceptional shots that lifted him upon the highest step of the podium with 207.9 points and 1.9 points of advantage on his Russian opponents.
“The World Championship is a huge competition. The best shooters of the world are here. I felt the pressure of the match at the beginning of the final, but then I zeroed in and I was able to climb up on top.” Yang said.
“I am honored that I claimed the first Olympic quota for my country.” He commented about winning a Quota place for Rio 2016.
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Today's Bronze medal went to Vitali Bubnovic, 39, from Belarus, a three-time Olympian (2004, 2008, 2012), who confirmed to be one of the best rifle shooters of the world by finishing upon today's podium with 184.9 points.
The top-6 athletes out of the 8 finalists were awarded an Olympic Quota place. Following Yang, Louginets and Bubnovic, three quotas went to Russia's Sergey Kruglov, 29 (fourth with 163.7 points), to the 2006 Junior World Championship bronze medallist Cao Yifei, 26, from the People's Republic of China (fifth with 143.8 points) and to France's 25-year old Jeremy Monnier (sixth with 121.7 points).
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The next medals will be assigned tomorrow, at the 50m Pistol Men Junior final taking place at 12.00.0 -
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shooting the new format is way more interesting than the old one
To which I have two responses:- I don't want interesting from my adrenal glands, I want interesting from the accuracy level
I like to know if I look at the final scores that the scores from today and the scores from last year are directly comparable; with the current system, it's far harder to do that than with the old system; - Interesting doesn't mean that the best shooter wins. This thing of dropping the lead you build up in qualifications and starting from zero is about as braindead an idea as the crap they're getting with the stiffness gauge. Hell, I could probably ignore the first point if it wasn't for that...
0 - I don't want interesting from my adrenal glands, I want interesting from the accuracy level
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I don't want interesting from my adrenal glands, I want interesting from the accuracy level I like to know if I look at the final scores that the scores from today and the scores from last year are directly comparable; with the current system, it's far harder to do that than with the old system;
The finals aren't that much more stressful as a shooter. The fact that it's twice the number of shots has more effect on the stress levels than the knockout format.
Besides, from a physiological point of view, the difference due to stress isn't as big as it appears. Try wearing a heart rate monitor during a match and subsequent final and you'll see.
I don't understand your comment about the comparability of finals from year to year. (Also, given the number of outdoor finals ranges it's a foolish thing to do for the 50m disciplines.)Interesting doesn't mean that the best shooter wins. This thing of dropping the lead you build up in qualifications and starting from zero is about as braindead an idea as the crap they're getting with the stiffness gauge. Hell, I could probably ignore the first point if it wasn't for that...
The best shooter does win. It's a 20 shot match that only the best 8 from the qualification round get to shoot. You have to change your point of view from "the final is an add-on to the match" to "the final is the match".
In general, the reset to zero doesn't matter. Either you're much better than your competitors and hence will beat them anyway or you're about the same as your competitors and hence a lead would be so small that it wouldn't help.0
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