{"id":5194,"date":"2025-06-05T12:59:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T02:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:29:05","slug":"la2028-para-shooting-program-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/la2028-para-shooting-program-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"LA2028 Para Shooting Program Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5158\" style=\"width:188px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1-300x281.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) confirmed the sports and events for the LA 2028 Paralympic Games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 sports will be included in LA 2028 offering 552 medal events and quota places for a total of 4,400 athletes. The Para Shooting program will mirror what was delivered at the Paris 2024 Games and will include 13 events across pistol and rifle, with 3 male, 3 female and 7 mixed\/open events. Possible new disciplines\/events of Para Trap and Visually Impaired (VI &#8211; Rifle) have not been included on the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>MEN&#8217;S EVENTS:<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Rifle R1 \u2013 10m Air Rifle Standing \u2013 SH1, R7 \u2013 50m Rifle 3 positions \u2013 SH1, Pistol P1 \u2013 10m Air Pistol \u2013 SH1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WOMEN&#8217;S EVENTS:<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Rifle R2 \u2013 10m Air Rifle Standing \u2013 SH1, R8 \u2013 50m Rifle 3 positions \u2013 SH1, Pistol P2 \u2013 10m Air Pistol \u2013 SH1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MIXED\/OPEN EVENTS:<\/strong>&nbsp;Rifle R3 \u2013 10m Air Rifle Prone \u2013 SH1, R4 \u2013 10m Air Rifle Standing \u2013 SH2, R5 \u2013 10m Air Rifle Prone \u2013 SH2, R6 \u2013 50m Rifle Prone \u2013 SH1, R9 \u2013 50m Rifle Prone \u2013 SH2, Pistol P3 \u2013 25m Pistol \u2013 SH1, P4 \u2013 50m Pistol \u2013 SH1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the IPC\u2019s announcement about the LA 2028 Para Shooting program, Shooting Australia\u2019s Chief Executive Officer, Adam Sachs, says, \u201cWe are glad to have confirmation of the events that will be contested at the LA2028 Paralympic Games, and a bit surprised that they don\u2019t include Para Trap or VI. Shooting Australia will continue to invest in progressing the performances of its current Para athletes and at the same time, increase investment towards fast tracking the identification, development and performances of our next generation of Para Shooting athletes across the events that will be comprise the LA 2028 program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are excited about the prospect of our current and future athletes establishing themselves as regular finalists and medallists in the lead up to the LA 2028 and Brisbane 2032 Paralympic Games.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5195\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1.png 601w, https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-1-300x47.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 sports will be included in the LA 2028 Paralympic Games, offering 552 medal events and quota places for a total of 4,400 athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-updates","category-paralympic-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5472,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions\/5472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}