The ISSF
Secretary General Franz Schreiber announced today live TV coverage for the 51st ISSF World Championship in all
Shooting events – the first Rio 2016 qualifier for Shooting sport - that will
take place in Granada, Spain, from the 6 through the 20 of September 2014.
All the
15 Olympic events in Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun discipline will be filmed and
distributed live via Eurovision.
“The
ISSF is committed to offer the best media coverage ever for it's 51st ISSF World Championship in all
Shooting events, which also represent our first qualification event with quota
distribution for the Rio 2016 Games.” The ISSF Secretary General said.
“ISSF
President Olegario Vazquez Raña approved a significant investment to produce
and distribute live TV footage of all our 15 Olympic events during the World
Championship. We will offer the coverage of all Olympic qualifier Finals via
EBU, for technical costs only. Our member federations can contact their
national broadcasters, to inform them that the footage will be available on the
Eurovision platform.”
The ISSF
World Championship in all events takes place every four years, and it's the
largest competition governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. In
2010, at the 50th ISSF
World Championship in Munich, more than 2000 athletes participated in 55
shooting events, including non-Olympic disciplines, and a comparable number of
participants is expected in Granada, this year.
Media
coverage is a key feature of the championship, as the ISSF Secretary General
remarked: “We will offer a full set of services to media in occasion of our
Championship. We've just re-launched our website, www.issf-sports.org,
where we will publish live results, statistics and stories, and distribute
photos to the press. In the next weeks, we will release a statement with
further details.”
“Our aim
is to maximize the visibility of our sport in this key moment of the Olympic
cycle. Rio 2016 will be an important step forward for our sport. After London
2012, we've changed our Finals, we've changed the scoring system, we've tried
to make the sport more spectators-friendly.” Mr. Schreiber added. “The
feedbacks we're receiving from spectators and media are extremely positive, and
our grassroots are growing as new young athletes join our sport.”
“Today,
we have more media coverage than ever before in the history of our Federation.
The Shooting Sport is on TV, press, and social media, and President Vazquez and
the ISSF will continue to work in this direction, investing for the future of
our sport.”http://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=2114
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