Osijek 2025: Preview, stars and how to watch the European Championships

Europe’s top shooting Para sport athletes are in Osijek, Croatia for the 2025 WSPS European Championships, with competition running from 3 to 7 October. 

Osijek 2025 will be streamed live on the ISSF YouTube channel.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH 

Complete schedule and results are available here.

The programme features 16 individual medal events and 12 team medal events, and athletes will have the opportunity to achieve Minimum Qualification Scores (MQS) for the 2026 WSPS World Championships in Changwon, South Korea. 

Paralympic stars in action

Twelve medallists from Paris 2024 will be aiming for continental gold in Croatia, including three Paralympic champions. 

Germany’s Natacha Hiltrop is set to compete in the R3 - Mixed 10m Air Rifle prone SH1, R6 - Mixed 50m Rifle prone SH1 and R8 - Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1. She is the Paralympic title holder in R6 and R8 and will defend her European R8 title from Granada  2024.

Serbia’s Dragan Ristic, the Paris 2024 champion in the R9 - Mixed 50m Rifle prone SH2, is also the reigning European champion in the R5 - Mixed 10m Air Rifle prone SH2. He will compete in both events in Osijek.

Slovakia’s Veronika Vadovicova will take part in four individual events: R2 - Women's 10m Air Rifle standing SH1, R3 - Mixed 10m Air Rifle prone SH1, R6 - Mixed 50m Rifle prone SH1 and R8 - Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1.

The Paralympic champion in R3 and silver medallist in R8, Vadovicova won a medal of each colour at Granada 2024 – gold in R3, silver in R8 (behind Hiltrop) and bronze in R2.

Other Paris 2024 medallists competing in Osijek include: 

Anna Benson, Sweden (R5 silver)

Aysel Ozgan, Turkyie (P2 silver)

Davide Franceschetti, Italy (P4 bronze)

Jean-Louis Michaud, France (R6, bronze)

Juan Antonio Saavedra Reinaldo, Spain (R3 bronze)

Marek Dobrowolski, Poland (R7 bronze)

Martin Black Joergensen, Denmark (R1 bronze) 

Tim Jeffery, Great Britain (R9 bronze)

Vladimer Tchintcharauli, Georgia (R9 silver)

📍 The stage is set! 🇭🇷

Five action-packed days of #ShootingParaSport at the Osijek 2025 WSPS European Championships 🔜

🔗 https://t.co/RhOONuKFkc#Osijek2025 pic.twitter.com/MN9ukxeEBP

— Shooting Para Sport (@ShootingPara) October 3, 2025

Home hopeful in VI event

The Osijek 2025 European Championships medal programme also includes two individual and two team events in vision impaired classes: VIP - Mixed 10m Air Rifle prone SH-VI and VIS - Mixed 10m Air Rifle standing SH-VI. 

Thirty-three athletes will be competing in these events. 

Fran Skracic helped Croatia reach the podium at the last European Championships with silver in the VIP. She also won silver (VIP) and bronze (VIS) at the 2023 World Championships in Lima, Peru.

Poland’s Barbara Moskal claimed double gold in Granada 2024.

And a bit of history

Osijek marks the ninth edition of the WSPS European Championships, which began 30 years ago in Jarvenpaa.

Jarvenpaa 1995 – Finland 

Wroclaw 2005 – Poland

Suhl 2007 – Germany

Alicante 2013 – Spain

Belgrade 2018 – Serbia

Hamar 2022 – Norway

Rotterdam 2023 – The Netherlands

Granada 2024 – Spain 

Osijek 2025 – Croatia