Monday, 1 February 2021 Boxing and shooting have been announced as the latest sports to join the programme of the 2023 European Games in Kraków-Małopolska. Both sports featured at the previous two European Games, held in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2015 and Minsk, Belarus in 2019 and have been confirmed as the seventh and eighth sports to join the programme for Kraków-Małopolska. European Shooting Confederation (ESC) President Vladimir Lisin said he was pleased about the sport’s continued involvement in the multi-sport event. "The ESC was one of the first to support the idea of the European Games and gave them a special importance from the very beginning," said Lisin.