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12 September 2017 THE FOXLODGE COMPLEX PASSED THE EXAM WITH EXCELLENT NOTES The 2017 ISSF World Championship Shotgun opened for the shooting community a new superb facility - the FOXLODGE complex in Moscow Region, Russia. All participants of the Championship were amazed by the infrastructure of the facility and the organizational level of the event. Mr. Robert Mitchell, the ISSF Executive Board member, who has been involved in different capacities in organization and celebration of the ISSF supervised competitions since 1986 said, for example, that it was the best organized World Championship ever. Read more

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09 September 2017 THE RANDOM AMMUNITION TEST DONE DURING THE 2017 ISSF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SHOTGUN The random ammunition test was done during the 2017 ISSF World Championship Shotgun that is currently taking place at the ranges of Foxlodge complex in Moscow Region, Russia. Read more
06 September 2017 THE 2017 ISSF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SHOTGUN IN RUSSIA IS ON THE WAY 640 athletes from 76 countries are participating in the 2017 ISSF World Championship Shotgun that is taking place at the ranges of the Foxlodge shooting complex in Moscow Region, Russia. Read more
24 August 2017 THE 2017 ISSF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SHOTGUN IN RUSSIA WILL BE LIVE ON TV! The 2017 ISSF World Championship Shotgun that is due to start on August 31 at the ranges of the Foxlodge Shooting Complex, Moscow Region, Russia, will be broadcasted live by TV. All necessary arrangements have been done by the Organizing Committee, the European Broadcasting Union and the International Shooting Sport Federation. Read more

08 August 2017 6 SHOOTERS FORM PART OF THE NEW ESC ATHLETES COMMITTEE The new ESC Athletes Committee has been formed. As a result of the nomination procedure and elections during the European Championship in Baku it is composed of 6 athletes - 2 representatives of Shotgun, 2 representative of Pistol and 2 representatives of Rifle. Gender equality in each of the disciplines has been respected.Read more
03 August 2017 Emil Martinsson corrected his mistake and won gold in 50m Running Target Mixed The last day in the city of wind and fire, Baku Azerbaijan. Last competition 50m Running Target Men and Men junior. Weather as beautiful as earlier, the wind was minimum when entered from bus to the Baku Shooting Centre.Read more
03 August 2017 The European Championships were officially closed in Baku – next time in Györ, Hungary The Closing Ceremony of 2017 Baku European Championships was organized just right after the awarding ceremony. ESC Presidium member Wilhelm Grill thanked the Organising Committee of Baku, Competition Director Emin Jafarov and all volunteers.Read more
02 August 2017 France is best in Skeet Mixed Teams Competition Twenty mixed teams competed from the European Championship in Baku in the last shotgun event. The weather was probably warmest during the competition week. The Qualification competed in the morning and under the afternoon burning sun were the semi-finals and finally medal matches.Read more
01 August 2017 Austrian Bernard Pickl won gold with better number of inner tens before Finnish Juho Kurki European Championships in rifle events finished with the 300 m Standard Rifle Men Competition. You could already see and feel a long week of competing in challenging conditions on the faces of athletes. The weather was not today as hot and windy as yesterday, or it felt so.Read more
01 August 2017 Denmark climbed up to the top of Skeet World with Birklykke’s World Record The Skeet Junior Men finished with new World and European Record made by Danish Johan Birklykke. Birklykke’s performance was amazing. He started strongly by making clear hits. Only when he was shot 12 stages he missed once. He missed totally only five clays in the very difficult conditions. Birklykke beat Italian Elia Sdruccioli finally by two clays Birklykke’s World Record result is now 55 in the finals, Sdruccioli 55. The Bronze Medal travelled also to Denmark with Emil Petersen with result of 42.Read more
31 July 2017 Turkish Yusuf Dikec climbed to the highest podium at the awarding of the 25 Center Fire Pistol Monday, the last day of July woke up as windy or even windier as yesterday. Flags were flying straight in the wind. Inside the main building you did not have any idea of the wind, but when going out you had to take care of your cap.Read more
31 July 2017 French Alexis Raynard reclaims the in 300m 3 Positions Men competition The wind blew in the rifle range with the same speed as before. That didn’t surprise the athletes. But when looking the result list there were familiar names who have been shooting long time in all kind of conditions. The winner was this time Alexis Raynaud from France. His kneeling was 391, prone 395 and standing 381, total winning result 1167. Silver medal winner was Hungarian Istvan Peni who beat his team mate Peter Sidi with two points. The silver medal result of Istavn Peni was 1163. Yesterday winner Jan Lochbihler (1158) was finally fourth.Read more
31 July 2017 Russian Anton Stakhov leads the Skeet Men after 75 clays Men and Men junior skeet shooters started their own competition today with 75 clays. In the lead of 75 clays Anton Astakhov from Russian Federation. He missed only one clay(74/75) in challenging conditions. Stefan Nilsson from Sweden and Hakon Svavarsson from Iceland hit 73 clays. The same amount of hit made also three other athletes: Dimitris Konstantiinou (CYP), Cabriele Rosetti(ITA) and Milos Slavicek (CZE). 72 clays broken six athletes. In the team competition Russian Federation (218) keeps to top place with the difference of three clays before France(215) and Italy (215)The competition continues tomorrow morning.Read more
31 July 2017 Italy ruled the Skeet Women Team competition Monday’s last competition was the Skeet Women Team Competition. After the quarter and semi-finals Italy and Ukraine had solved their road to the Gold Match, Cyprus and Poland to the Bronze Match.Read more
30 July 2017 Gambling with the wind in 300m shooting Sunday morning 30th of June woke up as usual sunny but very windy. The wind is strongest during this week and it blows from the north and suits perfectly to the shooting ranges. It is probably the most difficult direction here in Baku, if believing Rajmond Debevec and I believe.Read more
30 July 2017 Pavlo Korostylov through the difficulties to World Record in 25m Standard Pistol Men The wind didn’t disturb the pistol shooters so badly as the 300m rifle shooters, but they had also exciting moments with wind anyway. The 25m Standard Pistol Champion Ukrainian Pavlo Korostylov won and shot a new World and European Record which is now 581. He won the silver medallist German Christian Reitz (574)with seven points. The bronze medal winner was Russian Alexei Klimov(573).Read more
30 July 2017 Women fought against the wind in 300m Rifle Women 3 Positions competition as well It was nearly same kind of gambling with wind in Women’s 3 position competition as in 300m Rifle Men Prone competition. The difference was that there was warmer as in men’s competition while sun was already high in the sky.Read more
30 July 2017 One new world record and 16 clays shoot off in Skeet events Sunday’s last two shotgun events were Skeet Women Junior and Skeet Women competitions. After a long and hot, windy day the athletes came last time together to the finals. The wind blew as rough as in the morning but didn’t look to disturb the Women Juniors. Greek Artemis Kaefalidou showed her skill by winning the European Championship with final result 46 which is a new World and European Record. She beat Russian Elena Bukhonova by 3 clays. Third was Italian Francesca Del Prete with result of 35 clays.Read more

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