The Slingshot World Cup is where national teams and the best individual shooters on the planet go head to head, indoors, with scores counted to the point and nowhere to hide.
Latest results How it worksIt is the world championship of competitive slingshot shooting, also called the Slingshot World Championship, or the Campeonato del Mundo de Tirachinas in Spain. The sport's international body is the World Slingshot Association (WSA). It was founded in Shanghai in November 2019, is registered in Switzerland, and has offices in Italy and China. Each championship is run by a host national federation working with the WSA. In 2026 that was the Spanish Slingshot Sport Association (AETD).
The headline event. Shooters fire at small targets from 10 meters indoors, with targets from 4 to 8 centimeters across worth different points. It runs through preliminaries, semifinals and a final. Sights are allowed.
The old-school test. No sights, no aiming marks, and bands tied on by hand. It runs through preliminaries and semifinals, and the scores add up to the final ranking.
Nations against the field. Every team adds up its round scores as the field shrinks from 12 teams to 8, then 4, then the last 2 in the 2026 final.
The 2026 results sheets split Precision into Senior Male, Senior Female, Junior/Teen and Child. The WSA rulebook draws the adult line at 18.
Rules summarized from the WSA competition rulebook (4th edition, effective January 2022) and the official 2026 results sheets. The rulebook also lists Rapid Shooting and Frameless events, which are optional at world championships. Details can change between editions.
The third Slingshot World Championship took over the municipal sports hall in Las Mesas, a town of about 2,500 people in Spain's Cuenca province. Competition ran October 2 to 4.
| # | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 670 |
| 2 | Spain | 590 |
| 3 | Czech Republic | 410 |
| 4 | United States | 400 |
Czech Republic took bronze over the U.S. by 10 points. Full 12-nation table on the official results sheet.
Nan Wu (580), Wenbo Wang (568) and Tianpeng Lin (510) took gold, silver and bronze in Senior Male Precision. Wang also won Classic with 264.
Junior/Teen gold with 112 points, four scores of 28 and a 20-point gap over silver medalist Óscar Murillo Barbancho of Spain.
Alejandro Collado won Child Precision with 76. His dad, Óscar Collado, captained Spain's silver-medal team and is president of the federation that hosted.
Sources: official AETD results sheets (aetdspain.com) and the event programme; Spanish coverage by El Digital de Cuenca, Cadena SER and Antena 3.
A young sport with a short history: three world championships so far, in Italy, China and Spain.
Where it all started. The Italian federation FIGeST hosted the first Slingshot World Cup, with SimpleShot as an official sponsor. China's Liu Chengliang won the individual title with 454 points. Spain won the team event, with China second and Italy third. SimpleShot's founder, Nathan Masters, finished in the top ten.
Delegates from eight countries held the first WSA Congress on November 16 and elected Marco Brunetti of Italy as the association's first chairman.
420 competitors from 14 countries filled the Jiading Sports Center in October. The WSA billed it as the International Slingshot Open; the 2026 organizers and Spanish press count it as the second world championship. China won the team event, Spain took silver and Vietnam bronze.
October 2 to 4, with about 400 shooters from 21 countries. China won Team Precision, Spain took silver for the second straight championship, and Czech Republic took bronze. See the latest results above.
The gaps are real: the WSA's own announcements and results for 2020 to 2023 are thin, so only editions backed by a source are listed. Brunetti was re-elected WSA president for 2026 to 2030 at the Las Mesas meeting. A next world championship host has not been announced in anything we could find.
You do not need a national team jersey to follow along. The WSA lists an athlete registration for anyone who wants to compete internationally, and national federations and local tournaments are the way in.
The sport's international body: news, rules and WSA athlete registration.
The Spanish slingshot federation that organized Las Mesas and published the official results sheets.
Hosts of the first World Cup in 2018 and the WSA's European office.
SimpleShot's list of tournaments and gatherings, from big international events to relaxed local meetups.