Noémis Bélanger gives Canada a *Cairo match* to follow
Noémis Bélanger is Canada's sole listed entrant at Cairo's ISSF World Cup. Her October 14 air-pistol schedule, the qualification format, and the official results to follow.
Canada has one athlete on the final entry list for the ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Cup in Cairo: Noémis Bélanger, in women's 10-metre air pistol. Her event is scheduled for October 14, giving Canadian readers a few days to learn the name, understand the match, and find the results.
The ISSF's October 8 preview puts the expected field at 385 athletes from 51 countries. The event programme runs October 8-16, with scored competition beginning October 10. In the final entry list, Canada's line contains Bélanger's name and bib number 1080. At this writing, the women's air-pistol start list and results have yet to appear; her entry establishes the plan to compete.
My own handgun time has involved a CZ SP-01 Shadow under a private rental arrangement, following an earlier .22 LR handgun rental. I want to follow the qualification result, including the shooting that determines who gets a place in the final. Cairo offers a Canadian reason to pay attention to that part of the sport.
The return Bélanger describes
Bélanger's Fédération québécoise de tir profile gives some context for the name. In her first-person account, she says she discovered shooting at 13 and that her experience at the 1999 Canada Games drew her into the life of an athlete. She describes an ambitious return to international competition, with the goal of qualifying for the national team in 2027.
That goal belongs to her published profile. The Shooting Federation of Canada's current team page lists her under Senior ID Athletes in pistol. SFC describes identified athletes as shooters who have met the minimum standards for representing Canada internationally and are gaining experience toward further progression. The federation maintains separate National Team and Development Team lists.
I like having that context before a result arrives. There is an athlete's stated ambition to follow, and a particular competition at which to look for her progress. Her own account supplies the return-to-sport story. The eventual Cairo scorecard will supply the performance. The size of Canada's entry gives us no explanation of other athletes' plans, funding, or availability.
The match before the final
Women's air-pistol qualification consists of 60 scoring shots. Under the current ISSF rules, athletes have 75 minutes on electronic targets, following a separate 15-minute preparation and sighting period. Cairo's published schedule allocates that 75-minute competition window.
Qualification uses whole-ring scoring. A ten counts as ten, and the maximum across sixty shots is 600. The eight highest-ranked athletes advance. Those details make the qualification total useful in its own right: it records a full match, even for someone who finishes outside the eight places available for the final.
The finalists then begin at zero. They shoot two five-shot series, followed by single shots, with decimal scoring. Elimination starts after the twelfth shot and continues every two shots until the twenty-fourth decides gold and silver. The change in scoring and the reset explain why the final scoreboard looks different from the qualification table.
For a reader following Bélanger, the first result to find is her qualification score and placing. A finals-only search could skip her competition altogether if she finishes outside the top eight. If she advances, there will be a second match to follow, under that reset format. Both stages deserve their own account.
A sixty-shot total also gives a club shooter something specific to think about. Its place in the qualification table records how that total compared with the field on the day. I would rather start there when assessing a performance than make the presence or absence of a medal do all the explaining.
Wednesday morning in Toronto
The final competition schedule gives women's air pistol these times on Wednesday, October 14. Cairo is seven hours ahead of Toronto on that date.
| Stage | Cairo | Toronto, EDT |
|---|---|---|
| Qualification | 9:15-10:30 a.m. | 2:15-3:30 a.m. |
| Final | Noon | 5 a.m. |
The final time applies to the eight athletes who qualify. The schedule also shows preparation times, so take care to use the competition-start column when setting a reminder. Recheck the ISSF schedule page closer to the event in case the organizer changes a time.
ISSF says it will stream all finals free on its official YouTube channel. That announcement covers the finals. It provides no promise of a qualification broadcast, or of Bélanger appearing in the televised field.
For the Canadian entry, keep the Cairo results page alongside the video link. Look under Pistol, then 10m Air Pistol Women. The entry document uses the unaccented form BELANGER Noemis, which may help when searching a start list or results PDF. Check the start list first when it becomes available, then the qualification result after the scheduled match.
An early Wednesday scorecard is a modest appointment to put in a Canadian shooting calendar. I want Holdover to make room for athletes at this stage, while there is still a match ahead and time to follow it. Bélanger has given us a name to look for.
Sources
- ISSF, Cairo World Cup athletes to watch, October 8, 2026.
- ISSF, Cairo event general information.
- ISSF, final entry list by country and event, generated October 5, 2026, PDF pages 5 and 55.
- ISSF, final competition schedule, PDF page 3.
- ISSF, current rules effective July 1, 2026, rules 6.3.3.2, 6.17.1, 6.17.2, and 8.11.
- Shooting Federation of Canada, Our Teams.
- Fédération québécoise de tir, Nos athlètes, Bélanger's published profile.
- ISSF, where to watch Cairo, October 7, 2026.
- ISSF, Cairo results and current schedule, checked October 9, 2026.
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