FITASC - Fédération Internationale de Tir aux Armes Sportives de Chasse
On June 4th, 1921, the Union Internationale de Tir de Chasse (UIC)
was founded in Lausanne SUI by Belgium, Denmark,
France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, South Africa,
Sweden, and USA.
The aim of this new federation UIC was to gather national groups from
around the world that practice these sports of shooting live pigeon, clay
pigeon (clay target) and running deer/ boar (with bullets) and to unify
their rules. This declaration of responsibility was made in close
coordination with the UIT. The UIC was responsible for the program at the
Olympic Games and reserved the right to organize international
championships in these shooting disciplines. The statutes were adopted on
November 25th, 1925, at the first ordinary general assembly.
The UIC organized the competitions for clay pigeon (Olympic Trap) and for
running deer shooting under its rules at the Olympic Games in Paris 1924.
However, the IOC then decided to take these competitions out of the
mandatory program. As a result, the UIC launched the International
Championships, which are usually held annually (sometimes in connection with the UIT World
championships):
Due to the cancellation from the Olympic program, on May 28, 1926, the
UIC general assembly decided to create an International Championship for
shooting with hunting weapons every three years. The general assembly
proposed to hold the first World championship in Amsterdam on the occasion
of the 1928 Olympic Games. The UIC suggests, that if the Netherlands would
prefer not to organize this first championship, it would be staged in Paris
in 1927. This decision was later changed again announcing the organization
of an annual International Championship for clay pigeon shooting, first
held in the first week of May 1927 in Bruxelles BEL and the first
International championship for running deer shooting together with the next
International championship for clay pigeon shooting 1928 in Paris FRA
(published on 15.02.1927 - postponed to 1928 on 01.05.1927).
At the general assembly on July 23, 1938, the name was changed to
Fédération Internationale de Tir aux Armes Sportives de
Chasse (FITASC). The FITASC also decided on recognizing of world records, but only if
identical and comparable rules are available and applied.
In order to bring clay pigeon shooting and shooting at the running deer
back into the Olympic program, FITASC decided at its general assembly on
July 1st, 1947, to transfer these disciplines to the IOC-sanctioned UIT (The
UIT congress on 01.08.1947 had unanimously accepted the transfer of power
that the FITASC willingly gave up. In 1952 the disciplines were back in the
Olympic program).
FITASC also resigned from organizing of World championships, but continued
to organize (1947, 1951 and 1952) European championships in these
disciplines. But the FITASC had organized World championships every year.
At UIT, apart from the Olympic Games, there were only World championships
every four years. Thereupon the FITASC general assembly instructed its
president on 11.02.1951 to do everything possible to organize annual World
championships again.
The agreement with the UIT, adopted on December 17th, 1951, provided for the following:
The FITASC is again organizing annual European championships. (UIT: organizing during certain
odd numbered years of Pan-European, Pan-American, team championships; FITASC: organizing
every year a European individual championship (200 pigeons) which all shooters
of all nations can take part without limitation of numbers)
On July 9th, 1954, it was reported at the general assembly that the
harmonization of the rules for trap and skeet between FITASC and UIT had
been finished.
The relationship between FITASC and UIT remained problematically. A first
misunderstanding between the UIT and the FITASC resulting in two European
championships in 1955. In September 1955 all the misunderstandings between
the two associations had been dispelled and resulted in a new agreement.
At the general assembly on 13.06.1958 the FITASC renewed its demands on
annual World clay target shooting championships.
The congress of the UIT 1958 in Moskva URS accepts the principal of such an
annual World championship but organizing them by the UIT itself.
The UIT congress in September 1967 voted for the unilateral breach of the
agreement with the FITASC, concerning the European championships, and
organizing them by itself.
In 1970, UIT and FITASC agreed in principle obtained according to which the
FITASC, stops their activities in the two Olympic disciplines, to the
benefit of the UIT, could freely continue their activity in all non-Olympic
disciplines, without territorial restriction, and the UIT promised, that
the federations affiliated to it, would stay members of the FITASC.
1925: 11 member federations
1928: 13 member federations
1931: 17 member federations
1939: 29 member federations from 27 nations
1947: 20 member federations
1947: 13 member federations (after giving up the Olympic disciplines)
1956: 21 member federations
1966: 43 member federations from 40 nations
Presidents
| 04.06. - 25.11.1921 | Justinien Comté de Clary FRA, provisional |
| 25.11.1921- 13.06.1933 🕆 | Justinien Comté de Clary FRA |
| 13.06.1933 - 21.11.1945 🕆 | Maurice Faure FRA |
| 21.11.1945 - 30.11.1947 | Maxime Ducrocq FRA, interim |
| 30.11.1947 - ??.??.1949 | Maxime Ducrocq FRA |
| ??.??.1949 - 11.02.1951(?) | Hubert Durand-Dassier FRA |
| 11.02.1951(?) - 1972 | Comte Henri de Gouvion Saint Cyr FRA |
Secretaries General
| 04.06. - 25.11.1921 | Guillaume Vassé FRA, provisional |
| 25.11.1921- 1924(?) | Guillaume Vassé FRA |
| 1924(?) - 23.07.1938 | Marcel Adelon FRA |
| 23.07.1938 - 30.11.1947 | Jules Cavroy FRA |
| 30.11.1947 - 1974 | Pierre Bouyssou FRA |
Last modified: 20.01.2022