Shooting Rules & Defending Champions at the Paris Olympics 2024

Shooting competitions have been a mainstay for the Summer Olympic Games since their inception in 1896. Shooting was considered to be one of the nine major events held at the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens. Apart from the St Louis Olympics in 1904 and the Amsterdam Olympics in 1928, the sport of shooting has remained as a cornerstone of the Olympic Games. Shooting has undergone a major glorious transition over the decades, earlier the Olympic Games featured only a total of five shooting events where the modern-day Olympic Games feature around fifteen shooting events, owing to the sport’s growing popularity and prominence on a global scale. 

Ahead of the Paris Olympics 2024, a total of 340 athletes hailing from 82 different countries are all geared up to compete across different shooting competitions that will take place from 27th July 2024 and will conclude on 5 August 2024 at the prestigious Chateauroux Shooting Centre.

In this article we will take a look at the rules and defending champions of shooting competitions at the Paris Olympics 2024. 

Venue	National Shooting Center, Châteauroux
Dates	27 July – 5 August 2024
No. of events	15
Competitors	340 (170 men and 170 women)

Shooting Rules at the Paris Olympics 2024

The Paris Olympics 2024 will feature a total of three major shooting disciplines including Pistol, Rifle and Shotgun. Each of the disciplines will be governed by a specific set of rules at the Paris Olympics 2024. 

Pistol Shooting Rules at the Paris Olympics 2024

As per the rules of pistol shooting at the Paris Olympics 2024 it will be mandatory for the athletes to use only one hand while shooting. The three major sub-categories for pistol shooting at the Paris Olympics 2024 will include 10m Air Pistol, 25m Rapid Fire Pistol and 25m Pistol. 

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10m Air Pistol Shooting Rules 

• Individual shooters would have a total of 75 minutes to fire a total of 60 shots 
• Only a total of top eight shooters will have the chance of advancing to the medal rounds. 
• In mixed team 10m air pistol shooting events, each team member will have a chance to fire only 40 shots.
• Only a total of the top five teams will advance to the medal rounds. 

25m Rapid Fire Pistol Shooting Rules

• The shooters will fire a total of five successive shots from their pistols at the stated  interval of 4,6 and 8 seconds. 
• The qualification round will consist of two rounds with a total of 30 rounds each. 
• Only a total of eight shooters will advance from the qualification round to the medals round. 

25m Pistol Shooting Rules 

As per the rules of Paris Olympics 2024, “25m Pistol” would be considered as a women’s equivalent to shooting event and would be governed as per the above mentioned Olympic rules for 25m rapid fire pistol events. 

Rifle Shooting Rules at the Paris Olympics 2024

The two major sub-categories for rifle shooting at the Paris Olympics 2024 will include 10m Air Rifle and 50m Rifle 3 Positions. 

50m Rifle 3 Positions Shooting Rules 

• The total time limit of the 50m rifle 3 positions event will be 2 hrs and 45 minutes. 
• In 50m rifle 3 positions shooting at the Paris Olympics 2024, shooters will be allowed to fire shots in three major positions including prone, standing and kneeling. 
• Each shooter will be required to fire 40 shots from each position.
• Only a total of top eight shooters will advance to the medals round. 

10m Air Rifle Shooting Rules 

• The total time limit of the 10m Air Rifle shooting events will be 75 minutes only. 
• Shooters would be required to fire a total of 60 shots.
• Only a total of top eight shooters will advance to the medals round. 

Shotgun Shooting Rules at the Paris Olympics 2024

The two major sub-categories for shotgun shooting at the Paris Olympics 2024 will include trap and skeet. 

Trap Shooting Rules 

• Shooters will be required to attack clays that will come from a total of five different directions.
• Each shooter will be required to fire a total of 75 shots which will be divided in three rounds of 25 shots each.
• Only a total of six teams will advance to the medal round. 

Skeet Shooting Rules 

• Shooters will be required to attack clays that will come from a total of eight different directions.
• A total of five rounds of skeet shooting will be held at the Paris Olympics 2024 over a course of three days.
• Shooters will be required to take at least 25 shots each.
• Only a total of six shooters will advance to the medal round. 

Defending Champions of Shooting at the Paris Olympics 2024 

Men’s Shooting Events :

S.No	Event	Player	Country
1	10m Air Rifle	Javed Foroughi	Iran
2	25m Rapid Fire Pistol	Jean Quiquampoix	France
3	10m Air Rifle	Will Shaner	USA
4	Skeet	Vincent Hancock	USA
5	Trap	Jiri Liptak	Czech Republic

Women’s Shooting Events :

S.No	Event	Player	Country
1	10m Air Pistol	Vitalina Batsarashkina	Russian Olympic Committee
2	25m Pistol	Vitalina Batsarashkina	Russian Olympic Committee
3	10m Air Rifle	Yang Qian	China
4	Skeet	Amber English	USA
5	Trap	Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková	Slovakia
6	50m Rifle 3 Positions	Nina Christen	Switzerland

Mixed Shooting Events :

S.No	Event	Team
1	10m Air Pistol team	China
2	10m Air Rifle team	China
3	Trap Team	Spain