The European Shooting Championships are the continental championships for ISSF
sport shooting disciplines in
Europe
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, including 10m air rifle and air pistol, cartridge rifle (50m and 300m) and pistol (25m and 50m). Sometimes the competition also includes
trap shooting
Trap shooting is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting. The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays.
Trap shooting is distinguished by the targets being launched from a single "house" or machine, ...
,
skeet and
running target shooting events, usually organized in special championships.
The championships are organised by the
European Shooting Confederation (ESC) with the support of the
International Shooting Sport Federation
The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) is the governing body of Shooting at the Summer Olympics, Olympic shooting events. It also regulates several ISSF shooting events, non-Olympic shooting sport events. The Federation's activities ...
(ISSF).
The first edition of the championships took place in 1955 in Bucharest. It takes place biennially, but every year 2-4 special championships held for European countries in separate shooting disciplines.
In reaction to the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
, the
European Shooting Confederation stripped Russia of its right to host the 2022 European Shooting Championships in the 25m, 50m, 300m, running target and shotgun.
Summary of Championships
1955–1990
1990–2020
Global Shooting Championships
The European Championship Shotgun will take place in Larnaca, Cyprus, on August 24 — September 12, 2022.
The European Championship 25m/50m will take place in Wroclaw, Poland, on September 5-18, 2022.The competitions will include events for Men and Women as well as Men Junior and Women Junior.
Special Shotgun Championships
European Shotgun Championships were first held in 1956. The 2020 edition was
deleted for COVID-19.
Special 10 m Events Championships
Special 300 m Rifle Championships
Special Running Target Championships
Unofficial Championships
From 1929 to 1954 the European Championships was disputed only in
clay pigeon shooting
Clay pigeon shooting, also known as clay target shooting, is a shooting sport involving shooting at shooting target#Clay pigeons, special flying targets known as "clay pigeons" or "clay targets" with a shotgun. Despite their name, the targets ...
.
See also
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List of medalists at the European Shooting Championship
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European Junior Shooting Championships
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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 Shooting at the 1896 Summer Olympics, 1896 Summer Olympics, and although the ISSF w ...
References and notes
External links
ISSF Results OverviewEuropean Championships in all Shooting disciplines and events
European Championships complete archive results
(2010-2020) at European Shooting Confederation
*https://esc-shooting.org/news/read/discover-the-history-of-european-championships-706
*https://esc-shooting.org/documents/european_championships
*https://esc-shooting.org/storage/2022/02/03/ef39be93512c26f5c17ad278a0d67e6432635f67.pdf
*https://esc-shooting.org/storage/2022/02/03/7a18d67d261e3a2d60d63e5825b56ff33f3b3d09.pdf
*https://esc-shooting.org/storage/2022/02/03/79199b0d095d359f2840791488cc8287adf6da11.pdf
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