Cliff Walsh is a competitive shooter, ICORE World Revolver Champion and USPSA National Revolver Champion. He is also known for competing in the third season of

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Biography

He began shooting competitively in 2003, and became a member of the U.S. National IPSC Revolver team which won the

2005 IPSC Handgun World Shoot The 2005 IPSC Handgun World Shoot XIV held in Guayaquil, Ecuador was the 14th IPSC Handgun World Shoot. Once again, Eric Grauffel took the Open title. He was now an 18-year-old student and had already won many European titles, and after the 2005 W ...

in Ecuador. He finished third at the 2006 Summer Blast competition. The next year, he finished second. Finally, in 2008, Walsh finished in first place after beating Mike Carmoney by more than 53 match points. In 2009, Walsh beat

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for first place in the 2009 USPSA Nationals. This was the first time Miculek was beat at the Revolver Division.USPSA 2009 Limited, Revolver, and Limited-10 Results
on ''Gun Nuts''; Caleb Giddings (September 21, 2009) Walsh is also the fourth person to receive the USPSA revolver Grand Master classification. Walsh has competed in IPSC competitions in

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and

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. He was also selected for the U.S. National Team for the

2011 IPSC Handgun World Shoot The 2011 IPSC Handgun World Shoot XVI held at Rhodes, Greece was the 16th IPSC Handgun World Shoot. There were 30 stages which all had a Greek theme. Champions Open ;Individual: The Open division had the second largest match participation with 373 ...

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. In 2011, Walsh appeared in the third season of

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''. During the first half of the competition, Walsh competed as part of the Red Team. His team ended up winning three challenges during his

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, and Cliff was nominated for elimination three times. He was eliminated during the eighth week of the competition in a competition with a bow.

References

External links

Cliff Walsh Bio
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