page_title: 2022 Commonwealth Archery and Shooting Championships
section_title: Exclusion of shooting
hierarchical_section_title: 2022 Commonwealth Archery and Shooting Championships / Background / Exclusion of shooting
caption_attribution_description: English: Bisley Ranges Saturday morning on Bisley Ranges, taken through the fence from Wisdom Corner, Queens Road.
context_page_description: The 2022 Commonwealth Archery and Shooting Championships, commonly known as Chandigarh 2022, is a sporting event for members of the Commonwealth that is scheduled to be held in Chandigarh, India. Events will be held in and archery and shooting.
  The Championships are expected to take place in January 2022. The Championships were conceived by the Indian Olympic Association, the International Shooting Sport Federation and World Archery Federation following the exclusion of both sports from the programme of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Approved and recognised by the Commonwealth Games Federation, the event will be separate from the main Games, but medals won in Chandigarh will be counted with medals won in Birmingham in an official medal table published a week after the completion of the Games.
context_section_description: In January 2018, CEO of the CGF, David Grevemberg confirmed that Shooting, which is an optional sport according to the CGF constitution, would not feature at the 2022 Commonwealth Games as the organising committee of the Games decided to exclude the sport. This sparked an anger among the athletes from India and the IOA as India performed well in shooting during the previous edition of the Games at Gold Coast in 2018 by winning 16 medals, including 7 golds. The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) president Raninder Singh was unhappy with the decision of removal of shooting and wanted the Indian government to boycott the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Meanwhile, the IOA requested the CGF and the Organising Committee of the 2022 Commonwealth Games to include Shooting in the event. On 20 June 2019, during the CGF board meeting in Birmingham, the CGF confirmed that the shooting sport has been excluded from the 2022 Commonwealth Games as no suitable venue has been found in the host city Birmingham and in the West Midlands region. On 27 July 2019, IOA president Narinder Batra wrote a letter to the Indian Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju to discuss about the boycott of the 2022 Games as the organising committee did not add shooting in the Games. In regarding to protest, Batra said that the IOA has pulled out from the CGF General Assembly which was held in Kigali, Rwanda in September 2019 and also the IOA had withdrawn the nomination of its secretary general Rajeev Mehta for the election of a regional vice-president as well as that of Namdev Shiragaonkar for sports committee member in CGF. Batra also commented that the CGF has an "India bashing mindset" and "try to change rules" whenever the country (India) does well in the Commonwealth Games.
  On 30 July 2019, Ian Reid, CEO of Birmingham 2022 published a statement in the Games official website stating that shooting was not included in Birmingham's bid and in September 2018, five sports that were not included in the original bid – shooting, archery, beach volleyball, para table tennis and cricket – expressed their desire to be part of the Games. He also stated that the Birmingham 2022 Board committed to conducting a review, offering each sport a chance to be included and the process they conducted was fair, logical and transparent and the assessment panel included senior representatives from key Games Partners including Birmingham 2022, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport; Commonwealth Games England and Birmingham City Council. Shooting scored highly on some of the key criteria and the Panel recognised the submission from the ISSF, the International Confederation of Fullbore Rifle Associations (ICFRA) and British Shooting (BS). But the Panel determined that the proposed location for shooting at National Shooting Centre in Bisley, Surrey which is 130 miles away from the Games host city Birmingham, offered very little benefit to the West Midlands, in a Games with a significant proportion of funding coming from the region. The Panel did offer the opportunity for the sport to submit an alternative Birmingham based proposal – most likely two disciplines in one Birmingham venue – but the ISSF, ICFRA and BS were not ready to submit a proposal that did not include all four disciplines in a single Bisley-based venue. As a result of that review, Birmingham 2022 proposed adding three sports – women's cricket, para table tennis and beach volleyball – all of which could be staged in venues in Birmingham or the West Midlands and could bring additional benefits to a region that is providing substantial funding for the Games.
caption: National Shooting Centre in Bisley, Surrey was rejected by the Birmingham organising committee to host shooting
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