The 2008 World Running Target Championships were separate

ISSF World Shooting Championships The ISSF World Shooting Championships are governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. World Shooting Championships began in 1897, after the successful 1896 Summer Olympics, and although the ISSF was not founded until 1907, these early ...

held in

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, the

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, in October 2008 as a replacement for the lost Olympic status of

10 metre running target 10 meter running target is one of the ISSF shooting events, shot with an airgun at a target that moves sideways. The target is pulled across a two meter wide aisle at the range of 10 meters from the firing point. The target is pulled at either of ...

. Apart from this event, competitions were also held in

10 metre running target mixed 10 meter running target mixed is one of the ISSF shooting events, in which one shoots an airgun at a target that moves sideways. The target is pulled across a two-meter aisle at a range of 10 meters from the firing point. The target is pulled eit ...

50 metre running target 50 meter running target or 50 meter running boar is an ISSF shooting event, shot with a .22-calibre rifle at a target depicting a boar moving sideways across a 10-meter wide opening. It was devised as a replacement for 100 meter running deer in t ...

and

50 metre running target mixed 50 meter running target mixed is an ISSF shooting event, shot with a .22-calibre rifle at a target depicting a boar moving sideways across a 10-meter wide opening. A part of the ISSF World Shooting Championships since 1970, it differs from 50 meter ...

. The men's and women's regular 10 metre competitions featured the new semifinal and final stages known as ''medal matches''. Most of the top European shooters, which constitute the majority of the worldwide elite in running target, were present. No shooters from the most successful non-European nation,

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, were competing. Russia and Ukraine dominated, winning 19 medals each.

Schedule

Medal table

Results

Men's medal match

Women's medal match

External links

ISSF website on the competition

Results

References

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