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unusual facts about Shooting sports



Carl Osburn

Carl Townsend Osburn (May 5, 1884 – December 28, 1966) was an United States Navy officer and sports shooter from Jacksontown, Ohio.

Charles de Jaubert

Baron Charles de Jaubert (April 19, 1864 – June 13, 1935) was a French sports shooter who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Erich Graf von Bernstorff

Erich Graf von Bernstorff-Gyldensteen (June 26, 1883 – October 6, 1968) was a German Count and sports shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Henri de Castex

Baron Marie Jules Henri de Castex (born July 13, 1854, date of death unknown) was a French sports shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Leonardus Syttin

Leonardus "Leonid" Syttin (born 3 December 1892 in Vilnius, date of death unknown) was a Lithuanian sport shooter who competed for the Russian Empire in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Rachel Parish

Rachel Parish (born 21 May 1981) is an English international sportswoman who won a shooting gold medal and silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

Yuliya Drishlyuk

Yuliya Drishlyuk (née Bondareva, born 3 January 1975 in Pavlodar) is a female Kazakhstani sports shooter.


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Bob Ricker

The meeting, which was opposed by the National Rifle Association, led to the American Shooting Sports Council being disbanded.

Clay Pigeon Shooting Association

Founded in 1928, it is recognised by Sports England, the Department of the Environment, the Home Office, the Police etc. and it is a constituent member of the International Clay Pigeon Shooting Council of Great Britain and Ireland and is represented on The World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities through the British Shooting Sports Council.

Giovanni Cernogoraz

It was Croatia's first Olympic gold and only the second shooting sports medal ever won in its entire Olympic history.

Olympic shooting

The shooting events included in the Olympic program, or by extension all ISSF shooting events, even the non-Olympic ones (it is used in this meaning particularly in the United States to distinguish ISSF shooting from a large number of other shooting sports that may be more popular there)

Shooting Union of Russia

The Russia Shooting Union is a member of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), the European Confederation of Sport Shooting Activities (ESC), and the International Federation of the shooting sports and hunting weapons (FITASC).

Sporting Shooters Association of Australia

The SSAA publishes a range of publications, including the Australian Shooter, Australian Hunter, Australian & New Zealand Handgun, The Junior Shooter, SSAA's Comprehensive Guide to Shooting & Hunting in Australia, Shooting and the SSAA - A Beginner's Guide, A Journalist's Guide to Firearms and the Shooting Sports, ASJ: The political voice of the SSAA, the SSAA National E-newsletter and E-alert, and more.