Fall Selection Match Begins Road to Tokyo for Rifle/Pistol Athletes

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

USA -(Ammoland.com)- That 2020 vision building inside the minds of America’s top rifle and pistol athletes will get a little clearer as the Road to Tokyo officially begins Monday as the 2017 Rifle/Pistol Fall Selection Match gets underway in Fort Benning, Georgia.

The countdown reads 1,042 days until the XXXII Olympiad officially begins, but for as many as 80 competitors shooting for that ultimate target in Tokyo, the shots matter more starting Monday.

USA Shooting’s Fall Selection Match for Smallbore (.22 caliber) and the non-Olympic 300-meter events helps determine 2018 International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championships participants.

Olympic qualification and country quota allocations officially gets underway during next year’s World Championships, August 31-September 14. Fall Selection is part one of a two-part qualification system established for Three-Position Rifle, Men’s Rapid Fire Pistol and Women’s Sport Pistol and will feature two Qualification matches with one Final based on total aggregate score of the two qualification matches.

The second stage of World Championship selection will take place at the 2018 Spring Selection Match, March 26-30 back in Fort Benning, Georgia. Juniors will earn their World Championship selection at …Read the Rest

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