LC control no. | no2002073216 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | International Shooting Sport Federation |
Variant(s) | ISSF ISSF Sport Federation ISSF Shooting Sport Federation Fédération internationale de tir sportif Federación Internacional de Tiro Deportivo Internationaler Schiess-Sportverband |
See also | International Shooting Union |
Beginning date | 1998-07 |
Found in | ISSF news, 2000/2 (2002): p. 98 (International Shooting Sport Federation, ISSF); 98/4 (1998): p. 130 (ISSF Sport Federation); 99/6 (1999): p. 90 (ISSF Shooting Sport Federation) Year. of int. org., 2001/2002: v. 1B, p. 1661 (International Shooting Sport Federation; Fédération internationale de tir sportif; Federación Internacional de Tiro Deportivo; Internationaler Schiess-Sportverband) Vázquez Raña, O. Mi vida en el deporte, 2021: p. 4 of cover (Federación Internacnional de Tiro Deportivo) p. 223 (name of the UIT changes to ISSF; the UIT (Unión Internacional de Tiro) remained the integrating agency of shooting at the international level until July 1998, when the ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) was constituted) ISSF Web site, viewed October 4, 2022: the ISSF, history (On 17 July 1907, representatives of seven national shooting federations, six from Europe (Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Holland) and one from South America (Argentina), met in in Zurich, Switzerland, to formally establish the L'Union Internationale des Fédérations et Associations nationals de Tir (International Union of National Shooting Federations and Associations), in a meeting that would be remembered as the first ISSF General Assembly; President Mérillon invited the national federations that were members in 1915 and federations representing new countries formed after the war to come to a meeting in Paris on 16 April 1920 to renew ISSF activities. Delegates from 14 countries attended and agreed to reestablish the ISSF under the name L'Union Internationale de Tir (UIT); at the 1998 General Assembly in Barcelona, the word "sport" was formally incorporated into the ISSF's modern name, "International Shooting Sport Federation") |