NTSAI Pistol???

xesse

Is there any NTSAI pistol events this year?????
How can one qualify for european or world championships in rimfire pistol events if there are none being held?
Or are the NTSAI just going to ignore everything bar airpistol and rifle .?

Sparks

NTSA, not NTSAI. The alphabet soup's dense enough without getting it wrong too

And the NTSA's got a serious manpower shortage - why not volunteer to run a match for them?

Also, you cannot qualify for a European or World Championships in any ISSF event just by turning up and shooting at a match. You have to express your interest in the match quite some time ahead. So if you've not been in touch with them already about the Munich Cup, you're too late for anything before late autumn this year at least.

The full process is detailed here and there's some stuff on the why as well as the what of the process here.

Hope that helps.

xesse

So the guy that represented ireland in freepistol and centrefire pistol last year did all the following

* Have their Training Plans submitted to the relevant coordinators.
* Regular attendance of NTSA matches is required to be eligible for selection.
* The qualification score for each International competition must be made by the athlete to be eligible for selection.

Sparks wrote: »

NTSA, not NTSAI. The alphabet soup's dense enough without getting it wrong too

And the NTSA's got a serious manpower shortage - why not volunteer to run a match for them?

Also, you cannot qualify for a European or World Championships in any ISSF event just by turning up and shooting at a match. You have to express your interest in the match quite some time ahead. So if you've not been in touch with them already about the Munich Cup, you're too late for anything before late autumn this year at least.

The full process is detailed here and there's some stuff on the why as well as the what of the process here.

Hope that helps.

It wasn't me!

This really is a communication you should be having in private with those concerned, and I don't mean the athletes.

Sparks

Fair point - did you ask the NTSA? As to Peter, I don't know - I know he shot in the last standard pistol match we had here and medalled, and I know there was a selection procedure run for the Munich Championships that you're talking about, but training plans and so on aren't posted publicly (though he has commented on his training and performances on here even very recently (ie. this week)). There should have been posting of the qualifying match; I don't know why there wasn't.

More apropos to your original post (which was about upcoming matches rather than last year's matches), did you not contact the secretary when asked to last October? And if not, you should do so now - the first step is required to be taken by the athletes under our system.