ISSF Discards Rule That Pitted Top Two Shooters for Gold, Goes Back to Tokyo Format

The International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) has carried out away with a further stage within the finals that pitted the 2 high scorers for gold medal at World Cups and different big-ticket occasions together with the Olympics, and reverted to the previous format.

ISSF had launched the extra stage within the finals to determine the winner in pistol and rifle capturing put up the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Now, it has once more gone again to the previous elimination system, the place one of the best scorer would get the gold medal. The high two now received’t compete individually for gold medal.

The change will come into impact from the ISSF Pistol/Rifle World Cup in Baku (May 8-15) and also will be adopted in the course of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

A brand new scoring sample had been launched for the finals after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to make the game extra spectator-friendly, the place the 2 highest-scoring shooters had to once more duel it out for gold, quite than comply with the simplified elimination course of earlier, with the primary to attain 16 factors being declared the winner, whereas the second-best received the silver.

This system was in drive until the recently-concluded ISSF Pistol/Rifle World Cup in Bhopal.

The ISSF has not made any change within the qualification spherical from the place the eight highest-scoring shooters make it to the finals.

By altering the format for the finals, the ISSF has not simply simplified the scoring system but in addition made it simpler for the spectators to comply with the continuing.

As per the most recent format, the finals will include two collection of 5 match photographs every for all eight finalists.

This shall be adopted by 14 single-match photographs, the place the shooter getting the bottom rating amongst eight finalists will get eradicated after the twelfth shot and the method will proceed each two photographs till the medallists are determined.

A complete of 24 photographs shall be fired within the remaining to determined the winner.

India’s rifle coach and high-performance supervisor Deepak Dubey stated, the brand new guidelines had been conveyed to the pistol and rifle squad and it’ll practice for the World Cup in Baku retaining them in thoughts.

“These new (rule) adjustments are usually not technical in nature, so shooters are usually not required to make any main adjustments to their methods. Only a couple of adjustments right here and there shall be required in timing, which will be carried out simply and we shall be engaged on them throughout nationwide camp in Delhi later this month,” said Dubey, currently in Bhopal for the national trials.

“I’m sure we will be quite familiar with the new format ahead of the Baku World Cup. We will be implementing the new format completely in the next set of national trials,” he added.

“The solely change I noticed (within the ISSF rule e book) was that the addition spherical to determine the gold medal winner has been carried out away with, the place the 2 high shooters remaining within the competitors had to once more duel it out for gold, with the primary to attain 16 factors being topped champion. Rest the whole lot is identical,” stated Dubey.

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