ISSF World Cup Finals will kick-off the 24th of October in Wuxi, China, where the Rifle and Pistol Finals will take place through the 29th of October. Then the ISSF World Cup Series will move to the Olympic venue of Beijing, where the Shotgun Finals will be held from the 29th of October through the 3rd of November.
Facing the title defenders and the World Championship medallists, the best shooters of this year’s ISSF World Cup Series will meet in China questing for the ultimate medals of the season. Check who made it to the Finals!
999 shooters participated so far.
Since the ISSF World Cup Finals formula was
established in 1988, 999 shooters qualified and took part in it, including 621
men and 378 women.
The German record-man Ralf Schumann, the
most successful Rapid Fire Pistol shooter of the world, took part in nineteen
editions of the ISSF World Cup Finals, missing the first edition in 1988,
becoming the athletes with the highest participating in this competition.
Following him, the Sloveniann Rifle master
Rajmond Debevec, medallist of the last Olympic Games, shot in eighteen
different World Cup Finals, starting in 1989.
Maria Grodzeva, the Pistol shooter who
achieved two Olympic Gold and three Olympic Bronze medals, is the first Women
of our “Multi-Participation Chart”. The 37-year old Bulgarian athlete has
participated in seventeen editions of ISSF World Cup Finals, winning seven
different medal throughout the last twenty years. Giovanni Pellielo of Italy is
the first Shotgun shooter of the chart. The 39-year old Trap Shooter took part
in sixteen different ISSF World Cup Final editions, finishing on the podium
twelve times and winning the title seven times.
Who is coming in next? The first athlete to shoot in Wuxi will become the thousandth World Cup Finalist of the ISSF history. ISSF TV and issf-sports.org will follow and cover all Shotgun, Rifle and Pistol events on location. Check our website for updated news, photos and videos of the Finals!
1988 – 2008 ISSF World Cup Final
Multi-Participants
|
Total |
Name |
Gen |
NOC |
First |
Last |
Discipline |
|
19 |
SCHUMANN Ralf |
M |
GER/FRG/GDR |
1989 |
2008 |
Pistol |
|
18 |
DEBEVEC Rajmond |
M |
SLO/YUG |
1989 |
2008 |
Rifle |
|
17 |
GROZDEVA Maria |
W |
BUL |
1989 |
2008 |
Pistol |
|
16 |
PELLIELO Giovanni |
M |
ITA |
1992 |
2008 |
Shotgun |
|
15 |
KHADJIBEKOV Artem |
M |
RUS |
1993 |
2007 |
Rifle |
|
15 |
KIRIAKOV Tanyu |
M |
BUL |
1988 |
2006 |
Pistol |
|
15 |
KOKOREV Boris |
M |
RUS/EUN/URS |
1989 |
2008 |
Pistol |
|
14 |
FALCO Ennio |
M |
ITA |
1990 |
2006 |
Shotgun |
|
14 |
JAKOSITS Michael |
M |
GER/FRG |
1989 |
2004 |
Running
Target |
|
14 |
HIRVI Juha |
M |
FIN |
1988 |
2005 |
Rifle |
|
14 |
MARTYNOV Sergei |
M |
BLR/URS |
1988 |
2008 |
Rifle |
|
14 |
PFEILSCHIFTER Sonja |
W |
GER |
1991 |
2008 |
Rifle |
|
14 |
SALUKVADZE Nino |
W |
GEO/URS |
1988 |
2008 |
Pistol |
|
14 |
SEKARIC Jasna |
W |
SRB/SCG/YUG |
1988 |
2008 |
Pistol |