Opening Ceremony 2017 IPSC Rifle World Shoot

The 2017 IPSC Rifle World Shoot I held at the

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IPSC Rifle World Shoot The IPSC Rifle World Shoot is the highest level rifle match within the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) which consists of several days and at least 30 separate courses of fire. The Rifle World Shoots are held triennially on ...

. The match consisted of 30 stages over 6 days and 591 competitors from 40 nations. Originally the championship was planned to be held during 2016, but was rescheduled to 2017 in order to finish the construction of the new shooting range in

near Moscow. The majority of targets were placed between 60 and 100 meters, but many stages also included targets between 200 and 300 meters.

Champions

Open

Teemu Rintala at the 2017 IPSC Rifle World Shoot

The Semi Auto Open division had the largest match participation with 369 competitors (62.4%). Podium for the Open Division Lady category at the 2017 IPSC Rifle World Shoot.jpg, Lena Miculek won Open division Lady category in front of Ashley Rheuark and Maria Gushchina Podium for the Open Division Senior category at the 2017 IPSC Rifle World Shoot.jpg,

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won Open division Senior category in front of Armin Meesit and Jeffrey Cramblit Podium for the Open Division Super Senior category at the 2017 IPSC Rifle World Shoot.jpg,

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won Open division Super Senior category in front of Pertti Karhunen and Peter Kressibucher. ;Individual: ;Teams Open:

Standard

The Semi Auto Standard division had the second largest match participation with 131 competitors (22.2%). ;Individual: ;Teams Standard:

Manual Open

The Manual Action Open division had the third largest match participation with 52 competitors (8.8%). The Manual Action Standard 10 division had 10 competitors (1.7%) and was moved to Manual Open. Therefore, in total 62 competitors (10.5%) were scored in Manual Open. ;Individual:

Manual Standard

The Manual Action Standard division had 29 competitors (4.9%). ;Individual:

Medal table

Shoot-Off side event

The Shoot-Off side event was an audience friendly one-against-one elimination cup held after the main match. It consisted of quarter finals, semi-finals, bronze and gold finals. The top 16 overall in each division and top 8 category shooters in each division were qualified, and the event was broadcast live with commentary on web television.Recording of the Shoot-Off at the 2017 IPSC Rifle World Championship
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References

Official Live Results: 2017 Rifle World Shoot I

Final results of the Rifle World Championship

External links

Official Match Webpage

Facebook Page

Information video (Russian with English subtitles)
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