13/06/2008 - Record  number of countries -  68 at the World Cup in shotgun events in Belgrade

The fourth World cup clay targets shooting in the Olympic year will be held in Belgrade, from 14th to 22nd June with 390 contenders, both men and women, from 68 countries. On the shooting range of the “BG sport center Kovilovo”

The fourth World cup clay targets shooting in the Olympic year will be held in Belgrade, from 14th to 22nd June with 390 contenders, both men and women, from 68 countries. On the shooting range of the “BGD sports centre Kovilovo” there will be a great number of world famous stars.
-This World Cup will be remembered for the greatest number of the countries which sent shooters, 68 of them. – says Milan Sotra, the president of the Shooting Federation of Serbia for clay targets, after the meeting with Petros Kyritsis, the director of the competition on the World Cup.
-We will have the pleasure of greeting the vice-president if the ISSF, the Egyptian sport official Methat Wahdan who will be the technical delegate of the ISSF on the Olympic Tournament in Beijing as well as  Sheikh Salman S.S.H. Al Sabah from Kuwait, the president of the Asian shooting confederation…We extend our gratitude to Olympic Committee of Serbia, Ministry of youth and sport of Serbia, Toyota automobiles and Lasta, and of course “BGD sports centre Kovilovo” which gave exceptional hospitality in the President Hotel and excellent conditions for competition in, perhaps, the best range in the world…
The ceremony of opening is on Saturday, June the 14th at 20.00 hours on the shooting range in Kovilovo. On Sunday, June the 15th the women’s contest in the discipline of trap will start at 9 o’clock, the finals start at 17.30. Admission is free. The shooting range is situated on Zrenjaninski Put road, about 8.5 kilometers from Pancevacki Most bridge.
Olympic Clay targets in Belgrade
On the shooting range in Kovilovo, during the official practice on the World Cup for double trap on 17th June, for the first time, the special clay targets will be presented, and that kind of targets will be used on the Olympic Games in Beijing. That is the new model, made in China, it fully disperse when it has been shot, leaving the colored cloud so that the spectators can maximally enjoy the competition. It will be rated by the delegate on the Olympic Tournament Medhat Wahdan (Egypt), who is also the vice-president of the ISSF and Dimetris Lordos from Cyprus, the technical delegate of the World Cup in Belgrade (14-22 June).