Cyprus to host ISSF World Shooting Championships

Cyprus will play host to the ISSF World Shooting Championships between 1-10 September 2007, at the Olympic Shooting Centre in Nicosia.

The World Shooting Championships is the biggest annual event organised by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) and this is the third time in 12 years that the Cyprus Shooting Sport Federation is hosting this event.

More than 670 athletes from 81 countries will participate in the World Shooting Championships, the last games at this level before next year’s Olympic Games in China. Some 200 trainers and technicians will accompany the athletes to Cyprus.

The Cypriot shooting team is made up of 22 athletes (15 men and 7 women).

The official opening ceremony of the ISSF World Shooting Championships will take place on 2 September at the Olympic Shooting Centre, in the presence of Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos.

Parallel with the games the ISSF Executive Committee and Board of Directors will have their annual meetings at a hotel in the southern coastal town of Limassol.