After Umar Kremlev in boxing (IBA, former AIBA), another Russian president of an international sporting body will have to face competition to retain power. The site InsidetheGames reports that Italian Luciano Rossi (pictured above) has chosen to run against outgoing president, Russian Vladimir Lisin, in the upcoming election for president of the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF). The poll is scheduled for November 30 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The deadline to submit an application has been set for August 30. Luciano Rossi was beaten by only 4 votes by Vladmir Lisin, considered one of the richest men in Russia, during the last ISSF election in 2018. But the Italian wants to try his luck again. The geopolitical context could serve his interests, Vladimir Lisin remaining the only Russian, with Umar Kremlev, to chair an international body in an Olympic sport (Alisher Usmanov, another oligarch, was forced to temporarily withdraw from the presidency of the International Fencing Federation). Last June, a dozen ISSF member countries, including Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and the United States, formally asked Vladimir Lisin by letter to relinquish the presidential office . But the Russian is still in place.
