The ISSF World Cup was introduced by the

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in 2016 to provide an equivalent competition to the

ISSF World Cup The ISSF World Cup was introduced by the International Shooting Sport Federation in 1986 to provide a homogeneous system for qualification to the Olympic shooting competitions. It still is carried out in the Olympic shooting events, with four comp ...

, but for junior shooters. It covers a variety of both Olympic and non-Olympic events in rifle, pistol and shotgun, and covers one or two competitions per year in each event. Unlike in the senior version of the event, there is currently no junior world cup final. Under the 2023 ISSF rules, an athlete ceases to be a 'junior' on December 31 of the year they turn 21. This means they can still participate in Junior events for that year, even if they turned 21 on January 1st. Previous rules had defined a junior as an athlete who would be under the age of 21 on December 31st of the competition year, meaning they could not compete as a junior in that year even before their birthday.

Seasons and venues

The venues are decided by the ISSF from time to time. However, some are more common than others. Save for the 2017 world cup,

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has hosted a competition every year. Other stages of the competition have been held both in and out of Europe: for example in

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, Gabala and

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. Note that the 2017 world cup consisted of only shotgun events, as the Junior World Championships of the same year covered rifle and pistol events.

Events

The following events have all featured in the ISSF Junior World Cup in recent years:

Rifle

10 meter air rifle 10 meter air rifle is an International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) shooting event, shot at a bullseye target over a distance of using a calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of . It is one of the ISSF sports governed in shooting spor ...

* 50 meter rifle prone *

50 meter rifle three positions 50 meter rifle three positions (formerly known as one of four free rifle disciplines) is an International Shooting Sport Federation event, a miniature version of 300 meter rifle three positions. It consists of the kneeling, prone, and standing ...

Pistol

10 meter air pistol The 10 metre air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). It is similar to 10 metre air rifle in that it is shot with 4.5 mm (or .177) caliber air guns at a distance of , and that ...

25 meter pistol 25 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of 25 meter center-fire pistol but shot with a .22-caliber spor ...

25 meter standard pistol The International Shooting Sport Federation recognizes several shooting events, some of which have Olympic Games, Olympic status. They are divided into four disciplines: rifle, pistol, Clay pigeon shooting, shotgun and Running target shooting, ...

* 25 meter rapid fire pistol *

50 meter pistol 50 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called Free Pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It is one of the oldest shooting disciplines, dating back to the 19th century and only having seen marginal rule changes since 1936. I ...

Shotgun

* Trap *

Double trap Double trap is a shotgun shooting sport, one of the ISSF shooting events. Participants use a shotgun to attempt to break a clay disk flung away from the shooter at high speed. The layout of double trap shooting is similar to that of trap shooti ...

* Skeet

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:ISSF World Cup ISSF shooting competitions

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