Women's rifle shooting sport in Australia field hockey tournament featuring Australian, Kiwi and Fijian teams was played. In 1940, a study of 314 women in New Zealand and Australia was done. Most of the women in the study were middle class, conservative, Protestant and white. The study found that 183 participated in sport. The ninth most popular sport that these women participated in was squash, with 3 having played the sport. The sport was tied with croquet, billiards, chess, fishing, field hockey, horse racing, squash, table tennis and shooting. Women's rifle shooting sport in Australia Shooting was an important skill for women in the bush to
International Shooting Sport Federation Shotgun World Cup, held in Montecatini, Italy, in April. Since 1986, ISSF World Cup has been played on a yearly basis, always leading to an ISSF World Cup Final where shooters with the best scores were invited to compete in an elite competition at the end of each season. 25 junior events were added to the Championship programs in 1994. During the General Assembly held in Barcelona in 1998, the word sport was formally incorporated into the Federation’s name, changing it into the current International Shooting Sport Federation. Between 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, three women events were added to