Alberta Smallbore Rifle Association

Please be advised that the cut scores for the 2014 High Performance Program have been added to the Selection Criteria.

Please follow this link to view the 2014 SFC High Performance Selection Criteria:

2014 Athlete Selection Criteria

Shooting moved from Group D to Group C.

The International Olympic Committee announced a new grouping of Olympic sports for the purposes of the distribution of Olympic revenues to international federations, at a joint meeting of its Executive Board and that of the Association of Olympic International Federations at the SportAccord convention in St Petersburg, on the 29th of May.
Being group A the federation with the largest revenues share, and group E the group with the smaller revenues share, Shooting was elevated from group D up to group C.

The new ranking of existing Olympic sports for revenues share is as follows:
Group A
aquatics; athletics; gymnastics
Group B
basketball; cycling; football (soccer); tennis; volleyball
Group C
Shooting; archery; badminton; boxing; judo; rowing; table tennis; weightlifting
Group D
canoe/kayak; equestrian; fencing; handball; (field) hockey; sailing; taekwondo; triathlon, wrestling
Group E
modern pentathlon; golf; rugby sevens.

IOC proposed to ASOIF this new groups after evaluating sports according to six criteria. Each criteria was assigned a different weight:

• TV (the television audiences that each sport attracted during the games): 40
• Internet (the number of internet page views and social media mentions): 20
• General public (favourite sports, according to a survey): 15
• Spectators (ticket requests in the host territory): 10
• Press (number of favourable press articles): 10
• Universality (number of national federations): 5

The validity of this methodology was guaranteed by CIES, the International Centre for Sports Studies in Lausanne, as IOC authorities explained.
“Shooting was previously ranked in Group D. After the last evaluation our sport has been moved up into Group C. This means that the efforts of the ISSF to improve its visibility on TV and Internet were successful, and that Shooting is becoming more and more popular among sport fans.” ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Rana said.
“We welcome this positive news with great pleasure. Our aim is to keep on improving the status of Shooting on the international panorama.” Secretary General Franz Schreiber said. “The ISSF is doing things right in the fields of management, media and promotion, and this positive news proves it.”

Article also available here on line: IOC Group change

Congratulations to ASRA’s own Monica Fyfe for an outstanding performance in the 2013 USA Shooting national Championships Womens 10 Meter Air Rifle.

Results are here: 2013 USASNC

Hey shooters:

Results for the August Smallbore Rifle Nationals are posted.
Get them here: 2013 Match Results

Hey shooters: the video link page has been updated to include the 2013 ISSF World Cup videos.
You can get them here: video links

Photos of the 2 day championship event hosted by The Spruce Grove Gun Club are now posted in the ASRA PIcasa photos folder. Simply click on the Picasa icon at the top left hand corner of the ASRA webpage.

An 8 page summation detailing the interpretation of some of the new ISSF 2013 rules.

It’s available in the “Downloads” and “Shooting Resources” page of the website.

It should make for some interesting reading: 2013 ISSF Rule Interpretation