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  Hancock and Rhode combine to shoot skeet mixed team gold Doha: Thrilling action at the Lusail Shooting Complex continued on Wednesday as USA’s Vincent Hancock and Kimberly Rhode combined brilliantly to bag the mixed skeet event gold on the fourth day of the ongoing ISSF World Cup Shotgun - Doha 2023 championship. Hancock, who had won the individual skeet silver medal on Tuesday, showed excellent form and along with Rhode, who claimed the individual skeet women’s gold, stood out in the qualifying and the final. The qualifying round had ended in a tie with USA and France (Eric Delaunay & Lucie Anastassiou) scoring identical 148 before the Americans won in a shoot-off 4-3 to top the 32-team field. Qatar’s Reem Al Sharshani and Paris 2024 Games-bound Rashid Saleh Al Athba returned a score of 140, while the second Qatari team comprising Ghulam Hajar Mohammed and Abdulaziz Al Attiyah shot 122. The gold medal battle saw the Olympic gold winners Hancock and Rhode shoot flawless getti...

  Italy’s Gabriele Rossetti triumphs in the ISSF Shotgun World Cup Italy dominates skeet in Doha, Luigi Lodde 3rd   Rio 2016 Olympic champion Gabriele Rossetti of Italy won the individual men's skeet competition at the ISSF World Cup for Shotgun at Lusail Shooting Range on Tuesday.   In the four-man Medal Match, the Italian managed to break 39 of the 40 targets available (overcoming the competition from the three-time Olympic champion totem Vincent Hancock. The American winner of the medals at the 2008, 2012, 2021 Games had to settle for second place. Luigi Lodde finished in third place ahead of Egyptian Azmy Mehelba, who ended up fourth. “I’m so happy. I’m so happy. It’s my first World Cup win,” Rossetti said. “I am an Olympics champion, a world champion, but I had never won the World Cup. And now I have won this also. I’m very happy,” said. “I remember this day is very important for me because in 2018, one week after my my dad’s death, I came here. For...

  ISSF World Cup for Shotgun:   Six-time Olympic winner Rhode of USA wins shoot out with compatriot Simonton to clinch women skeet title in Qatar. Simona Scocchetti takes 3rd place in women's skeet. Six-time Olympic winner Kimberly Rhode of USA is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics and at ISSF World Cups and the 43-year-old show glimpses of why she is so, at the ISF World Cup for Shotgun at Lusail Shooting Range on Tuesday The three-time Olympic gold medallist kept her nerve to win a crucial shoot-out with compatriot Samantha Simonton and notch the women’s skeet title in Qatar. The gold medal in Qatar just added to her medal collection at the ISSF World Cup competition, which reads like this…… 19 Gold, 7 Silver, and 8 Bronze medals and add to it six individual medals won at six consecutive summer Olympic games. In the all-American gold medal shoot out in Qatar, Rhode won 6-5 against Simonton, twenty years her junior and one who was not even born wh...

  Qatar to host ISSF World Cup Shotgun Doha 2023 from March 4 to 13 Qatar Shooting & Archery Association (QSAA) will host the ISSF World Cup Shotgun Doha 2023 from March 4 to 13 at the Lusail Shooting Complex. The championship, organized by the under the auspices of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) has attracted 466 shooters from 63 nations and is second of a series of 12 tournaments being held in 11 countries. Announcing the event at a press conference on Thursday, Deputy General Manager of the Championship Jassim Shaheen Al Sulaiti said that QSAA and the Lusail Shooting Complex is all set to host the high-profile tournament. “Lusail shooting range is ready to host this World Cup. We have been preparing for it for the last three months. We hosted the Qatar Open a few weeks ago as preparation and to see how ready we are for this competition. And we hope that we can deliver a good competition and make everyone proud,” he said. Al Sulaiti added: “ISSF Wo...

  Qatar Open Shotgun Championship from February 11 to 20 Qatar Shooting & Archery Association (QSAA) has revealed the details of the 11th edition of the Qatar Open Shotgun Championship 2023, which will be held at the Lusail Shooting Range Complex during Feb. 11 to 20, with the participation of 156 players representing 52 countries including 30 world and Olympic champions. This came during a press conference held by QSAA at its headquarters in the presence of championship director, assistant secretary and executive director Jassim Shaheen Al Sulaiti, championship technical director Abdullah Ali Al Mutawa Al Hammadi, and deputy director of the championship Antonella Bartolomei. Al Sulaiti said that Qatar has been hosting this championship since 2011. It was suspended during the period of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic to return this year in its new version. It is the first time that a large number of players are participating in the championship which is considered a prepara...

The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) has co-opted Hamad Ali Al Athba and Abdullah Ali Al Mutawa Al-Hammadi as Qatari members in two committees affiliated to ISSF during a meeting held by the Board of Directors, which reviewed all candidates of the various committees through electronic voting. The meeting chose the Secretary-General of the Qatar Shooting and Archery Association (QSAA) Hamad Ali Al Athba for the membership of ISSF's sustainability committee, and the member of the Board of Directors of the Qatar Association Abdullah Ali Al Mutawa Al-Hammadi for the membership of ISSF's technical committee. Meanwhile, Al Athba said that he is delighted to have been chosen for this position, asserting that joining the sustainability committee of ISSF was supported by the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOA) under the presidency of HE Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al-Thani, and the Qatar Shooting and Archery Association under the presidency of Mishaal Ibrahim Al Nasr who vouched him ...

  Qatar to host 14 major international sports events this year Doha, Qatar: The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) announced its calendar of sport events for the year 2023. The calendar will see 81 events, including 14 major international tournaments. International Qatar Volleyball Association (QVA) will host the calendar’s first event in 2023, which is King of the Court Finals (Beach Volleyball) in January which will be followed by the Beach Pro Tour Finals. In February, the QVA will also host the 2023 Beach Volleyball Word Pro Tour-Elite 16 The Qatar Tennis, Squash and Badminton Federation will host the annual tennis events– the Qatar ExxonMobil Open from February 13 and Qatar TotalEnergies Open from February 20. The calendar has four major international sport events in March, as Qatar Gymnastics Federation will organize Artistic Gymnastics World Cup 2023. The Qatar Golf Association will host the 37th edition of Qatar Open Amateur Championship, the Qatar Shooting & Arche...

  Qatar Shooting Association unveils details of Nishan Vodafone Ramadan Tournament 2022 DOHA – The Qatar Shooting & Archery Association ( QSAS) unveiled   on Tuesday that all organizational , managerial and technical   preparations were completed ahead of    host of   2022 Nishan Vodafone Ramadan Tournament and accompanying festival of games under the patronage of   the H.E Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) President, Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, from 3 rd   to 19 th of April   at the    Lusail Shooting Range. This unveiling came during Tuesday’s press conference held at the   QOC building attended by Mr. Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Tamimi, the tournament Director and Assistant Secretary General of Qatar Shooting & Archery Association, Sheikh Mohammed bin Salman Al Thani, the Head of technical committee, Mr. Ali Atiq Alabdulla, head of Media Relations and CSR of Vodafone Qatar (Tournament Official Partner) alongside the ...