| Highest governing body | CMAS |
|---|---|
| First played | early 1980s, France |
| Characteristics | |
| Contact | No |
| Team members | yes |
| Mixed-sex | yes |
| Type | Aquatic |
| Equipment | diving mask, fins, snorkel, speargun |
| Venue | swimming pool |
Underwater Target Shooting is an underwater sport/shooting sport that tests a competitors’ ability to accurately use a speargun via a set of individual and team events conducted in a swimming pool using freediving or Apnoea technique. The sport was developed in France during the early 1980s and is currently practiced mainly in Europe. It is known as Tir sur cible subaquatique in French and as Tiro al Blanco Subacuático in Spanish.