China’s Wang Yifu named vice president of ISSF

China’s national shooting team head coach Wang Yifu was named vice president of the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) late Wednesday.

“Dear friends, dear colleagues, today I am really happy and honored. Thank you all for your support,” Wang Yifu said on the ISSF official website.

“Under the excellent leadership of ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Rana and of ISSF Secretary General Franz Schreiber, and with the support of all our member federations, we will work together to realize our common goals.”

Besides Wang, the General Assembly of ISSF also named Luciano Rossi from Italy, Gary Anderson from the United States, Vladimir Lisin from Russia as its vice presidents.

Earlier Wednesday, ISSF re-elected Olegario Vazquez Rana as the ISSF president.

The 78-year-old Mexican will serve for another four-year term, and it is the ninth straight term since the former shooter and world record setter’s first election in 1980.

Franz Schreiber from Germany was voted unanimously to become the new ISSF Secretary General.

The 2014 ISSF General Assembly, which represented 128 members, was being held at the Hilton Park Hotel in Munich, Germany.

The Assemly had already awarded the 2017 ISSF Shotgun World Championship to Moscow the day before.