Organizations in sport shooting

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There are organizations in sport shooting on a national and international level. These institutions are organized as sporting associations. The purpose of the associations is to hold championships and to promote shooting sports .

International organizations

International Shooting Sport Federation

The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF for short) is the leading international association for sport shooters. It organizes the official World Championships and World Cups, where quota places for the Olympic Games can be won. The ISSF only represents shooters from the rifle, shotgun and pistol sectors.

World Archery Federation

The World Archery Federation (WA), formerly FITA, is the leading international association for archers. He also organizes world championships and world cups. In contrast to the ISSF, the WA represents all archers in the Olympic disciplines.

National Organizations (Germany)

There are several umbrella organizations in Germany . Each association organizes the competitions according to its own sports regulations . There is only a small amount of overlap between the individual umbrella organizations in terms of the disciplines involved. Several regional associations can be subordinate to each umbrella organization. These are responsible for individual federal states or areas. The regional associations hold their championships according to the rules of the umbrella association.

An association is recognized in Germany if this is determined by the Federal Office of Administration . The Federal Office of Administration must approve the sports regulations and check whether the association has at least 10,000 members. The sports regulations precisely regulate the disciplines offered with the respective competition procedures, the permitted weapons, safety regulations and clothing regulations.

The following associations are currently recognized:

German shooting association

The German Shooting Association (DSB for short) is the largest shooting association in Germany with around 1.4 million members. It is limited to the classic disciplines of sport shooting. The focus is on the Olympic disciplines. He is a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and representative of German shooters in the National Olympic Committee . Many disciplines are shot internationally up to World Championships and Olympic Games . The Schützenbund sends shooters from the national team for these international competitions .

Disciplines offered (order according to sports regulations):

The German Rifle Federation is divided into 20 regional associations. The regional associations are active regionally, with no overlapping of the areas. Organizationally, the regional associations are again divided into districts, districts and / or districts . Shooting clubs are members of the regional association and thus also of the German Shooting Federation. Only shooters from clubs that belong to one of the regional associations and who have previously shot the discipline in which they are competing in a club championship are allowed to participate in championships according to the sports regulations of the German Shooting Federation.

Association of German Sport Shooters

The Association of German Sport Shooting 1975 e. V. (BDS) with 50,000 members is the second largest umbrella organization in Germany after the German Shooting Association. The focus is on large-caliber shooting. The disciplines tend to be dynamic. Some disciplines are shot internationally up to world championships.

Disciplines offered:

  • Static handgun shooting
  • Long-range shooting for handguns and long guns
  • Target shooting (short / long), on steel plates
  • Speed ​​shooting (short / long)
  • various long weapon disciplines from 50 to 300 m
  • IPSC (course shooting short / long)
  • Field target
  • Target shooting
  • Muzzle Loader Shooting (Short / Long)
  • Western shooting

Association of military and police riflemen

The focus of the BDMP is on dynamic and static large-caliber shooting. Mainly military and police weapons are used. Only weapons that can be purchased under the Weapons Act are allowed. Weapons that fall under the War Weapons Control Act are forbidden as in all other associations. Some disciplines are shot internationally up to world championships. The 27,000 members are mainly organized as so-called shooting performance groups (SLG). These SLGs rent from clubs with their own stands to be able to shoot.

Disciplines offered:

  • Static handgun shooting
  • various multi-distance disciplines for handguns
  • various long weapon disciplines from 25 to 300 m
  • Benchrest shooting
  • Long range to 900 yards
  • Dynamic shotgun shooting
  • PPC 1500
  • Bianchi Cup

German Shooting Union

The German Shooting Union is one of the smaller umbrella associations in Germany with around 15,000 members. As with the BDS and the BDMP, the focus is on large-caliber shooting. In the winter half-year a league competition (long-distance competition) is held in all disciplines.

As part of the current development, the DSU has set the promotion of young talent as an important goal. For this purpose, on July 3, 2005, the youth sports center was established in Wershofen . The task consists on the one hand in the promotion of young talent through appropriate offers for young people, on the other hand in the training of the DSU youth guards, who supervise children and young people in shooting sports according to legal regulations.

Disciplines offered:

  • Static handgun shooting (pistol, revolver, each with different caliber classes)
  • various multi-distance disciplines for handguns
  • various long gun disciplines from 50 to 100 m (single loader, repeater, self-loader)
  • Dynamic shotgun shooting (bolt action and self-loading shotguns)
  • Air weapon disciplines
  • Youth-friendly disciplines
  • various disciplines for black powder (muzzle and breech loaders, long and handguns).

Other associations in Germany

National Organizations (Austria)

Austrian Rifle Federation

Founded in 1879, the Austrian Schützenbund is the oldest professional sports association in Austria. It has over 770 associations with a total of around 27,500 members in the nine regional associations.

The Presidium is the highest governing body of the ÖSB. The chairmanship is the "Federal Archery Champion" Dr. Herwig van Staa . In addition to his work on the Presidium, he also chairs the Federal Rifle Council, which u. a. belong to the state archery champions. The operational activities are carried out in the General Secretariat under the leadership of General Secretary Mag. Florian Neururer.

The Austrian Schützenbund has 11 branches: air rifle , small-bore rifle , large-bore rifle , air pistol , fire pistol, running target , muzzle-loader , crossbow , silhouette , field target and sporty large-bore pistol. Each division is under the direction of a national sports director. A distinction is made between different competitions within the divisions.

The ÖSB is a member of the Austrian Federal Sports Organization . Internationally, the ÖSB is affiliated with the ISSF, the Muzzle Loaders Associations International Committee (MLAIC) and the International Crossbowmen Union (IAU).

Other national organizations

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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