COLO SPRGS, CO (Aug. 21, 2025) – The Olympic and Paralympic Video games Los Angeles 2028 (LA28) have confirmed the venues and occasion codecs for Olympic and Paralympic capturing sports activities. Rifle and pistol occasions will happen in a purpose-built indoor vary on the Lengthy Seashore Goal Taking pictures Corridor which might be held within the Lengthy Seashore Conference Heart. Shotgun occasions might be hosted within the present shotgun facility of Whittier Narrows Clay Taking pictures Heart in South El Monte, California.
A complete of 15 Olympic occasions and 340 athlete quotas have been confirmed, whereas Taking pictures Para sport will see 150 athlete slots—10 fewer than in Paris 2024—as a part of the Worldwide Paralympic Committee’s broader technique to advertise gender fairness throughout the Paralympic program.
“With the occasions and venues now formally confirmed, the joy is constructing as we look forward to LA28,” mentioned Kelly Reisdorf, USA Taking pictures CEO. “Competing in entrance of a house crowd is a uncommon and particular alternative. Our athletes are coaching relentlessly, and we’ve got each confidence they’ll ship standout performances and earn medals on dwelling soil. We’re prepared to point out the world what Crew USA is manufactured from.”
Rifle and pistol occasions might be held in a brief indoor vary inside Lengthy Seashore Goal Taking pictures Corridor, marking the primary time these disciplines will happen inside strolling distance of different Olympic venues and occasions. Shotgun occasions might be hosted at one in every of Southern California’s premier shotgun ranges, conveniently situated in LA County.
The Olympic program will characteristic Males’s and Ladies’s 10m Air Rifle, 50m Rifle 3 Positions, 10m Air Pistol, Skeet, and Lure. Additionally included are Males’s 25m Speedy Fireplace Pistol and Ladies’s 25m Pistol, together with blended group competitions for 10m Air Rifle, 10m Air Pistol, and Lure.
Extra modifications to Olympic capturing embrace rising the variety of athletes within the shotgun and Males’s 25m Speedy Fireplace Pistol finals from six to eight, and modifying the 50m Rifle 3 Positions finals to characteristic solely the standing place. Qualification rounds for this occasion will nonetheless require kneeling, inclined, and standing.
The blended group finals format has additionally been up to date to remove separate gold and bronze medal matches. As an alternative, the highest 4 groups will advance from qualification right into a single elimination-style closing. The Worldwide Taking pictures Sports activities Federation (ISSF) has introduced that these competitors format modifications will take impact starting Jan. 1, 2026.
The LA28 Paralympic program for Taking pictures Para sport will embrace 150 athlete quota slots—a discount of 10 from the earlier Video games. The IPC cited the change as a part of a wider initiative to attain gender fairness throughout your entire Paralympic Video games program. The occasions might be held on the identical momentary indoor venue in Lengthy Seashore because the Olympic rifle and pistol competitions.
Imaginative and prescient impaired (VI) and Para Lure occasions won’t be included within the LA28 Paralympic program. Based on the IPC, the choice got here after a particularly aggressive software course of. A complete of 598 medal occasions and 4,811 athlete quota locations have been requested by the worldwide federations of the 22 sports activities on the Paralympic program.
About USA Taking pictures
USA Taking pictures, a 501(c)(3) non-profit company was chartered by the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee because the Nationwide Governing Physique for the Olympic & Paralympic Taking pictures Sports activities in April 1995. The group develops and implements packages to advertise progress within the sport and serves as a sanctioning physique for native and nationwide competitions. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Coaching Heart, USA Taking pictures has a full-time workers devoted to our sport.
ABOUT THE LA28 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES
The LA28 Video games will mark Los Angeles’ third time to host the Olympic Video games, beforehand hosted in 1984 and 1932, and first time to host the Paralympic Video games. Los Angeles will host the world’s most elite athletes in 2028 because it welcomes Paralympians and Olympians from all over the world to compete on the most important stage in sports activities. The LA28 Video games are independently operated by a privately funded, non-profit group with income from company companions, licensing agreements, hospitality and ticketing packages and a big contribution from the Worldwide Olympic Committee.
