In February 2018, the
International Shooting Sport Federation agreed to change the rules on the allocation of the Olympic quota places, as it aims to attain gender equality. As a result, a total of 360 quota places, an equal distribution between men and women, will be awarded at the top-level global and continental championships. As per the guidelines from the
International Shooting Sport Federation, the qualification period commences with the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships in
Changwon,
South Korea, which concludes on 15 September 2018, less than two years before the Olympics. There, forty-eight individual and twelve mixed team quota places will be assigned. Throughout the process, quota places will be generally awarded when a shooter earns a gold medal in an
ISSF World Cup series or posts a top finish at the
ISSF World Championships or the continental championships (Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas). After the qualification period concludes and all NOCs receive the official list of quota places, the ISSF will check the World Ranking list in each of the individual shooting events. The highest-ranked shooter, who has not qualified in any event and whose NOC does not have a berth in a specific event, will obtain a direct Olympic quota place. Unlike the previous Games, host nation Japan is guaranteed twelve quota places, with one in each of the individual shooting events. ==Schedule==