# 2019 IPSC Rifle World Shoot

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The 2019 IPSC Rifle World Shoot II was held in Karlskoga, Sweden between 3 and 10 August. The match consisted of 30 stages over six days, and over 650 competitors Jarkko Laukia from Finland took gold in the Open division, which was the largest division of the match.

## History

Originally, the 2018 IPSC European Rifle Championship was to be held in Karlskoga in the summer of 2018, but had to be postponed to 2019 due to the 2018 Sweden wildfires. After an application to the international association for practical shooting, the Match Category was upgraded to a World Championship, making the match one of the largest shooting competitions ever held in Sweden. The match had a capacity of approximately 750 competitors.
Karlskoga is known for being the home town of Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel. The venue of the match, Villingsberg's shooting range (Villingsbergs skjutfält), is owned by the Swedish Armed Forces, and the yearly Swedish Defence Forces' Practical Rifle Championship was also held in conjunction with the World Championship.
The match had stable weather conditions.

## Results
### Open

The Semi Auto Open division had the largest match participation with 531 registered competitors (79.4 %). Jarkko Laukia from Finland won the Open division after having worked up a solid lead early in the match. Laukia was one of the favorites before the championship along with his experienced Finnish teammate and reigning European champion Raine Peltokoski and reigning world champion Teemu Rintala. Peltokoski managed to close in much of Laukia's lead during the final day of shooting and finished second place at 98.57%. Third place was taken by Vadim Mikhailov from Russia at 94.62%, passing reigning champion Teemu Rintala who ended up in fourth with 94.41% (0.21% behind Vadim).

#### Individual

| Overall | Competitor | Points | Overall Match Percent | Overall Match Percent |
| Gold | Jarkko Laukia | 2378.8940 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Silver | Raine Peltokoski | 2344.9589 | 98.57% | 98.57% |
| Bronze | Vadim Mikhailov | 2251.0231 | 94.62% | 94.62% |
| 4th | Teemu Rintala | 2245.9468 | 94.41% | 94.41% |
| 5th | Olle Ackehed | 2225.5517 | 93.55% | 93.55% |
| 6th | Tim Yackley | 2197.6912 | 92.38% | 92.38% |
| 7th | Marcus Madsen | 2197.1548 | 92.36% | 92.36% |
| 8th | Kyle Litzie | 2189.1600 | 92.02% | 92.02% |
| 9th | Dagnis Maiberg | 2168.2678 | 91.15% | 91.15% |
| 10th | Eirik Johannes Larsen | 2156.5641 | 90.65% | 90.65% |
| Lady | Competitor | Points | Overall percent | Category percent |
| Gold | Ashley Rheuark | 1883.7501 | 79.19% | 100.00% |
| Silver | Lena Miculek | 1852.5786 | 77.88% | 98.35% |
| Bronze | Lanny Barnes | 1683.8957 | 70.78% | 89.39% |
| Junior | Competitor | Points | Overall percent | Category percent |
| Gold | Riley Kropff | 1907.8355 | 80.20% | 100.00% |
| Silver | Dmitry Novikov | 1664.8075 | 69.98% | 87.26% |
| Bronze | Georgy Shkoda | 1568.8428 | 65.95% | 82.23% |
| Senior | Competitor | Points | Overall percent | Category percent |
| Gold | Ernest Nagy | 2063.4535 | 86.74% | 100.00% |
| Silver | Jose Vidanes | 1837.6288 | 77.25% | 89.06% |
| Bronze | Dario Forlani | 1821.1013 | 76.55% | 88.26% |
| Super Senior | Competitor | Points | Overall percent | Category percent |
| Gold | Jerry Miculek | 1884.2530 | 80.35% | 100.00% |
| Silver | Pertti Karhunen | 1700.5142 | 72.52% | 90.25% |
| Bronze | Ilkka Kervinen | 1515.7852 | 64.64% | 80.44% |

#### Teams Open

| Overall | Country | Percent | Team members |
| Gold | Finland | 100.00% | Jarkko Laukia, Raine Peltokoski, Teemu Rintala, Kim Leppänen |
| Silver | United States | % | Tim Yackley, Scott Greene, Joseph Farewell, Brian Nelson |
| Bronze | Russia | % | Oleg Kovalev, Vadim Mikhailov, Gleb Svatikov, Ivan Ivanov |

### Standard

The iron sighted Standard division had the second largest match participation with 97 registered competitors (14.5 %). Sami Hautamäki won Standard with a decisive margin of near nine percent down to the next Standard competitor. In the unofficial Combined Scoring Across all Divisions, this would have put Sami at an impressive 22nd place with 86.07% of Open division winner Jarkko Laukia. The fight for the remaining podium places was a close race until the end, and ended with Joseph Easter from USA taking second place at 91.08%, while reigning champion Håvard Østgaard from Norway took third place at 90.16% of the winning score, only 0.9% behind second place.

#### Individual

| Overall | Competitor | Points | Overall Match Percent | Overall Match Percent |
| Gold | Sami Hautamäki | 2510.4513 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Silver | Joseph Easter | 2286.4597 | 91.08% | 91.08% |
| Bronze | Håvard Østgaard | 2263.5465 | 90.16% | 90.16% |
| 4th | Kenneth Handberg | 2250.4614 | 89.64% | 89.64% |
| 5th | Madis Reier | 2165.4857 | 86.26% | 86.26% |
| 6th | Arseniy Denisov | 2129.4978 | 84.83% | 84.83% |
| 7th | Atte Vainionpää | 2118.8657 | 84.40% | 84.40% |
| 8th | Kelly Neal | 2111.3216 | 84.10% | 84.10% |
| 9th | Evigeniy Kalinin | 2066.8526 | 82.33% | 82.33% |
| 10th | Alan Alborov | 2062.6652 | 82.16% | 82.16% |
| Senior | Competitor | Points | Overall percent | Category percent |
| Gold | Kelly Neal | 2111.3216 | 84.10% | 100.00% |
| Silver | Ilkka Siitonen | 2055.2132 | 81.87% | 97.34% |
| Bronze | Vitaly Konev | 1890.8888 | 75.32% | 89.56% |

### Manual Open

The Manual Action Open division had the third largest match participation with 29 registered competitors (4.3 %). A triple Swedish win in the Manual Open individual classification was ensured by Swedish shooters Jiro Nihei, Stilianos Simeonidis and Erik Bjälkvall The Manual Open division was a close race until the last days of the match, and the top 5 being competitors finished within about 2.3% of each other. The Swedish team, consisting of the three plus Dan Liljeström, also took gold in the Manual team classification.

#### Individual

| Overall | Competitor | Points | Overall Match Percent | Overall Match Percent |
| Gold | Jiro Nihei | 1313.1260 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Silver | Stilianos Simeonidis | 1308.7920 | 99.67% | 99.67% |
| Bronze | Erik Bjälkvall | 1301.1866 | 99.09% | 99.09% |
| 4th | Paolo Zambai | 1290.3569 | 98.27% | 98.27% |
| 5th | Aleksandr Ivashko | 1283.2123 | 97.72% | 97.72% |
| 6th | Dan Liljeström | 1233.9990 | 93.97% | 93.97% |
| 7th | Samuele Luca Conte | 1172.7674 | 89.31% | 89.31% |
| 8th | Vesa Kaunisto | 1170.6188 | 89.15% | 89.15% |
| 9th | Oleg Perfilev | 1159.3707 | 88.29% | 88.29% |
| 10th | Fredrik Lindblad | 1068.9674 | 81.41% | 81.41% |
| Senior | Competitor | Points | Overall percent | Category percent |
| Gold | Paolo Zambai | 1290.3569 | 98.27% | 100.00% |
| Silver | Aleksandr Ivashko | 1283.2123 | 97.72% | 99.45% |
| Bronze | Dan Liljeström | 1233.9990 | 93.97% | 95.63% |

### Manual Standard

The Manual Action Standard division had 12 registered competitors (1.8 %).

#### Individual

| Overall | Competitor | Points | Overall Match Percent | Overall Match Percent |
| Gold | Vladimir Chamyan | 1362.4478 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Silver | Vladimir Yakovlev | 1233.3168 | 90.52% | 90.52% |
| Bronze | Andrei Kirisenko | 1206.7647 | 88.57% | 88.57% |
| 4th | Konstantin Khatkovskiy | 1154.6125 | 84.75% | 84.75% |
| 5th | Ramazan Mubarakov | 1095.4781 | 69.78% | 69.78% |
| 6th | Enkhbaatar Dorjpagma | 950.7752 | 69.78% | 69.78% |
| 7th | Alexey Romanov | 933.7079 | 68.53% | 68.53% |
| 8th | Gantulga Dontor | 769.0968 | 56.45% | 56.45% |
| 9th | Fanourios Sifakis | 747.0379 | 54.83% | 54.83% |
| 10th | Alexey Terebenin | 745.0130 | 54.68% | 54.68% |

## Shoot-Off side event

The shoot-off side event is an audience friendly one-against-one elimination cup held on 10 August, the day after the Main Match was finished. The top 8 overall finishing athletes from the Main Match as well as the top 8 category athletes in each division were eligible for qualification.
The Shoot-Off was broadcast live online on Facebook, and was recorded by Sveriges Television, the Swedish national public television broadcaster.
| Division | Category | Gold |
| Open | Overall | Olle Ackehed |
| Open | Lady | Lena Miculek |
| Open | Junior | Riley Kropff |
| Open | Senior | Georgy Shkoda |
| Open | Super Senior | Jerry Miculek |
| Standard | Overall | Kenneth Handberg |
| Standard | Senior | Kelly Neal |
| Manual Open | Overall | Ivanshko |
| Manual Open | Senior | Dan Liljeström |
| Manual Standard | Overall | Vladimir Yakovlev |