ISSF World Cup explained

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 competitions per year in each event. For the best shooters there is since 1988 a World Cup Final.

World Cup Final

The World Cup Final in rifle and pistol is often, but not always, held in Munich as the ISSF shooting season ending competition. The location and date of the World Cup Final in shotgun are more flexible. To the Final, the following shooters are qualified:

The defending Olympic, World, ISSF World Cup Final champions.
Silver and bronze medalists of either the last Olympic or the World Championship, whichever competition that was most recently held.
The eight shooters that have made the best performances at the World Cup competitions during the year. For rating the performances, a special score system is used by taking into account of both the rank and the score achieved in the competitions.
As many as two shooters can be nominated by the host country to compete in two of the World Cup Final events if no one from the host country qualifies.

Seasons and venues

The venues are decided by the ISSF from time to time. However, some are more common than others. Two World Cups in rifle and pistol events are almost always held in Munich and Milan. The other two are usually held outside Europe, in places like Fort Benning, Buenos Aires, Seoul, Changwon or Sydney. Some common locations for the shotgun competitions are Nicosia, Lonato, New Delhi, and Americana, São Paulo. A new location for the shotgun competitions is held in Kerrville, Texas located in the Hill Country of Texas.

In Olympic years, an early World Cup is held at the Olympic venue and considered a Pre-Olympic test event.

Rifle and pistol

^[1]	Year	World Cup 1	World Cup 2	World Cup 3	World Cup 4	World Cup 5	World Cup 6	World Cup Final
1	1986
2	1987
3	1988
4	1989
5	1990
6	1991
7	1992
8	1993
9	1994
10	1995
11	1996
12	1997
13	1998
14	1999
15	2000
16	2001
17	2002
18	2003
19	2004
20	2005
21	2006
22	2007
23	2008
24	2009
25	2010
26	2011
27	2012
28	2013
29	2014
30	2015
31	2016
32	2017
33	2018
34	2019
35	2020
35	2021
36	2022
37	2023
38	2024
39	2025
40	2026

Shotgun

	Year	World Cup Final
1	1986
2	1987
3	1988
4	1989
5	1990
6	1991
7	1992
8	1993
9	1994
10	1995
11	1996
12	1997
13	1998
14	1999
15	2000
16	2001	(early in 2002)
17	2002
18	2003
19	2004
20	2005
21	2006
22	2007
23	2008
24	2009
25	2010
26	2011
27	2012
28	2013
29	2014
30	2015
31	2016
32	2017
33	2018
34	2019
35	2020
36	2021
37	2022
37	2023
38	2024
39	2025
40	2026

Running target (discontinued)

Spin-offs

The lack for a World Cup in the non-Olympic events has led to the creation of a European Cup by the European Shooting Confederation, based on largely the same rules as the ISSF World Cup. Originally it consisted of 300 metre rifle three positions, 300 metre rifle prone and 300 metre standard rifle, but since the 2005 season there is also a European Cup in 25 metre center-fire pistol and 25 metre standard pistol.

Since 2016, there has also been a separate world cup specifically for junior shooters.

Multi-Medalists

In this table the shooters with at least 7 gold medals won in the World Cup stages.^[2]

	Name	Years				Total	Discipline
1	Ralf Schumann	1986–2012	39	7	10	56	Pistol
2	Rajmond Debevec	1986–2013	27	21	19	67	Rifle
3	Christian Reitz	2008–2023	19	13	9	41	Pistol
4	Roberto Di Donna	1991–2001	19	7	7	33	Pistol
5	Vincent Hancock	2005–2023	19	5	2	26	Shotgun
6	Sergei Martynov	1988–2012	17	8	7	32	Rifle
7	Jozef Gonci	1995–2011	16	9	11	36	Rifle
8	Jongoh Jin	2003–2017	16	6	5	27	Pistol
9	Qinan Zhu	2004–2016	15	6	6	27	Rifle
10	Yifu Wang	1986–2003	13	13	7	33	Pistol
11	Harald Stenvaag	1986–2004	12	13	13	38	Rifle
12	Damir Mikec	2009–2024	11	11	3	25	Pistol
13	Franck Dumoulin	1996–2010	11	7	5	23	Pistol
14	Zongliang Tan	1993–2012	11	7	4	22	Pistol
15	Igor Basinski	1986–2002	11	4	6	21	Pistol
16	Ennio Falco	1988–2009	10	7	6	23	Shotgun
17	Attila Solti	1987–2000	10	7	5	22	Running
18	Michael Jakosits	1989–2003	10	4	5	19	Running
19	Daniele Di Spigno	1997–2017	10	3	3	16	Shotgun
20	Giovanni Pellielo	1992–2022	10	2	8	20	Shotgun
21	Manfred Kurzer	1991–2004	10	2	5	17	Running
22	Artem Khadjibekov	1993–2010	9	18	7	34	Rifle
23	Matthew Emmons	2001–2016	9	12	11	32	Rifle
24	Boris Kokorev	1987–2008	9	11	6	26	Pistol
25	Péter Sidi	1999–2017	9	10	7	26	Rifle
26	Alexey Alipov	1998–2021	9	9	10	28	Shotgun
27	Alberto Fernandez	2007–2024	9	5	4	18	Shotgun
28	Jean-Pierre Amat	1986–2000	9	5	3	17	Rifle
29	Saurabh Chaudhary	2019–2022	9	2	2	13	pistol
30	Tanyu Kiriakov	1986–2008	8	13	11	32	Pistol
31	Michael Diamond	1991–2015	8	12	4	24	Shotgun
32	Oleh Omelchuk	2007–2023	8	7	3	18	Pistol
33	Niccolò Campriani	2009–2014	8	4	3	15	Rifle
34	Mikhail Nestruev	1996–2009	8	3	6	17	Pistol
34	Jiri Privratsky	2021–2024	8	3	6	17	Rifle
36	Albano Pera	1986–1997	8	3	4	15	Shotgun
37	Sergei Pyzhianov	1986–1997	7	12	8	27	Pistol
38	Sergey Kamenskiy	2014–2021	7	6	1	14	Rifle
39	Tomoyuki Matsuda	2008–2017	7	4	4	15	Pistol
40	Warren Potent	2007–2016	7	3	2	12	Rifle

External links

See main article: world cups.

Notes and References

Web site: ISSF Calendar . 2024-05-05 . www.issf-sports.org.
Web site: Multi-Medalists World Cups MEN individual / team. issf-sports.org. 1 June 2020.