2011 World Shoot XVI Handgun The increasing popularity of IPSC Championships by Tony Saunders
shooting around the globe has lead to Continental and World Championships being designed to take 900 plus competitors in these matches. For the WS, 1080 allocations were issued for the match. This high demand is in part due to many new IPSC regions being formed in many of the emerging eastern European countries. A total of 64 IPSC Regions participated in the match.
The event started on October 2nd with the Opening Ceremony. Over 160 competitors took part in the Pre Match for all the range officers and match officials. Administrative meetings and the IPSC General Assembly where also held during this week. Representing the UKPSA at these meeting were Vanessa Duffy, Rob Adam, Neil Beverly and Bob Chittleborough. The Opening Ceremony took place on the Sunday afternoon. Teams and representatives of the 64 participating nations converged and paraded behind their respective countries flags into a Greek amphitheatre.
The Main Match started on the Monday morning of October 3rd and consisted of 30 stages, shot six per day over five half days. The competitors were grouped into 72 squads of up to 15 shooters, which shot for half a day alternating between mornings and afternoons - 7.30 am to 13.00 pm and 13.30pm until 7.00 pm. The way the match was organised meant that 30 squads shot in the morning and another 30 squads shot in the afternoon and 12 squads had the day off. Each stage was ranged officered by two IROA officials. The Greek Army also provided a lot of man power to assist with the running of the event.
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The 30 stages consisted of 15 short stages of 9 to 12 rounds; ten medium stages of 13 to 21 rounds and five long stages of 29 to 32 rounds for a minimum round count of 464 rounds for the match. As well as static full-sized and partial versions, the IPSC Classic targets consisted of moving, bobbing and drop and turn versions placed between two and 35 metres from the competitors. Twenty-eight of the 30 stages also included moving targets and steel pepper poppers and/or plates.
Eric Grauffel retained his crown as World Open Division Champion for the fifth successive time. The USA’s JJ Racaza and Kamille Eusibio were in second and third place with 96.71% and 96.00 %.
In women’s Open Division Australia’s Karla Blowers took the woman’s top slot. The USA’s Megan Francisco and Jessica Harrison took the next two places.
In the open junior class Shane Coley from the USA came in first place. Rhys Arthur from Australia came second and the USA’s Ben Thompson was close behind in third place.
In Modified Division Zdenek Henes from the Czech Republic took the top spot, with Jerome Jovanne Morales from the Philippines less than 3% behind him and the USA’s Rob Leatham was in third place. Production Division was a tight match this year and it was a one, two and three for the USA, with Robert Vogel, Ben Stoeger and Matthew Mink taking the top three places. Women’s Production Division was won by Russia’s Mira Gushchina and less than 0.5% separated the USA’s Julie Goloski-Golob and Sara Dunivin in second and third place.
The battle for Standard Division took place between JC Jamie Diaz, Blake Miguez, Ted Puente, Petr Znamenacek, Travis Tomasie and Gyorgy Batki. Congratulations to Blake Miguez for winning Standard at the WS. Spain’s JC was second and Ted Puente from the USA in third place. Ricardo Lopez from Ecuador
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