Shooting: ISSF reverts to Tokyo Olympics formats for Paris 2024 finals, here’s what it means

The Paris 2024 Olympic qualification cycle for shooting is well and truly underway, and some quotas have already been handed out for the Games next year in France. Yet the International Shooting Sport Federation – the governing body of the sport – has decided to tinker with the competition format one more time.

On Tuesday, the ISSF decided to forgo the format they had put into place last year in favour of the one that was used for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The biggest change in the new format is that the gold medal match that had been over the last few months at the World Cups – a first-to-16 point shootout between the top two finishers in the final – has now been removed. Instead, the old final format has been reinstated across pistol and rifle disciplines.

“After the formal approval of the IOC and the unanimous decision of the Exco, the updated rules are broadly in line with those held at Tokyo 2020 and will come into effect as from 8th May, starting with the World Cup in Baku,” the ISSF said in a statement.

What was the gold medal match?

The top eight shooters from the qualification round would qualify for the ranking match. There, shooters would...

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