Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Video games Confirms Capturing Venues and Occasions
COLO SPRGS, CO (Aug. 18, 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 Capturing 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 Capturing Heart in South El Monte, California.
A complete of 15 Olympic occasions and 340 athlete quotas have been confirmed, whereas Capturing 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 sit up for LA28,” mentioned Kelly Reisdorf, USA Capturing CEO. “Competing in entrance of a house crowd is a uncommon and particular alternative. Our athletes are coaching relentlessly, and we now have each confidence they’ll ship standout performances and earn medals on house soil. We’re prepared to indicate the world what Staff USA is manufactured from.”
Rifle and pistol occasions might be held in a brief indoor vary inside Lengthy Seashore Goal Capturing 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 positioned 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 Entice. Additionally included are Males’s 25m Speedy Hearth Pistol and Ladies’s 25m Pistol, together with blended group competitions for 10m Air Rifle, 10m Air Pistol, and Entice.
Further adjustments to Olympic capturing embody rising the variety of athletes within the shotgun and Males’s 25m Speedy Hearth 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, susceptible, and standing.
The blended group finals format has additionally been up to date to get rid of 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 Capturing Sports activities Federation (ISSF) has introduced that these competitors format adjustments will take impact starting Jan. 1, 2026.
The LA28 Paralympic program for Capturing Para sport will embody 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 realize gender fairness throughout your complete Paralympic Video games program. The occasions might be held on the similar momentary indoor venue in Lengthy Seashore because the Olympic rifle and pistol competitions.
Imaginative and prescient impaired (VI) and Para Entice occasions is not going to be included within the LA28 Paralympic program. In accordance with the IPC, the choice got here after an especially aggressive software course of. A complete of 598 medal occasions and 4,811 athlete quota locations had been requested by the worldwide federations of the 22 sports activities on the Paralympic program.
About USA Capturing
USA Capturing, 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 Capturing Sports activities in April 1995. The group develops and implements applications to advertise development 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 Capturing 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 around the globe to compete on the largest 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 applications and a major contribution from the Worldwide Olympic Committee.
