IPSC European Shotgun Championship

Last updated April 08, 2019

The IPSC European Shotgun Championship is an IPSC level 4 championship hosted every third year in Europe.

The International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) is the world's second largest shooting sport association and the largest and oldest within practical shooting. Founded in 1976, the IPSC nowadays affiliates over 100 regions from Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Competitions are held with pistol, revolver, rifle and shotgun, and competitors are divided into different divisions based on firearm and equipment features. While everyone in a division competes in the Overall category, there are also own separate awards for the categories Lady, Super Junior, Junior, Senior and Super Senior.

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia.

History

1987 October 8-11, Great Britain
2003 August 27-30, Terni, Italy
2006 September 6-9, Kavala, Greece
2009 September 15-18, Oparany, Czech Republic ^[1]

Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of 209,331 km² (80,823 sq mi), it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island, and the ninth-largest island in the world. In 2011, Great Britain had a population of about 61 million people, making it the world's third-most populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The island of Ireland is situated to the west of Great Britain, and together these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands, form the British Isles archipelago.

Terni is a city in the southern portion of the region of Umbria in central Italy. The city is the capital of the province of Terni, located in the plain of the Nera river. It is 104 kilometres northeast of Rome.

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of 301,340 km² (116,350 sq mi) and has a largely temperate seasonal and Mediterranean climate. With around 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous EU member state and the most populous country in Southern Europe.

The first IPSC European Shotgun Championship was held in October 1987 at the National Shooting Centre in Bisley, England, a couple of days before the seventh IPSC European Handgun Championship at the same shooting range.

The National Shooting Centre in Bisley, Surrey is the largest civilian shooting range in the United Kingdom, and the headquarter of the National Rifle Association of the United Kingdom.

Bisley is a village and civil parish in the borough of Surrey Heath in Surrey, England. It is centred 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west of Woking. It was a medieval creation. Neighbouring Bisley is the 19th-century West End, centred 900 metres north, across the Windle Brook. According to the 2011 Census, the population of Bisley was 3,965, which is largely within a focal area – the surrounding green and heather-and-gorse heath buffer land running into other parishes is lightly populated – in contrast to Knaphill which is contiguous to Woking, 1 mile (1.6 km) east.

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to the west and Scotland to the north-northwest. The Irish Sea lies west of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

Champions

The following is a list of current and past IPSC European Shotgun Champions.

Overall category

Year	Division	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Venue
1987					Great Britain
2003	Open	Mario Riillo	Edoardo Roberto Buticchi	Giovanni Furio Liberti	Terni, Italy
2003	Modified	Germano Taratufolo	Fabrizio Fornaballi	Vitaly Kryuchin	Terni, Italy
2003	Standard	Roberto Ferruccio Vezzoli	Raine Peltokoski	Petri Runtti	Terni, Italy
2003	Standard Manual	Luigi Silvestroni	Paolo Brocanelli	Giovanni Di Giulio	Terni, Italy
2006	Open	Vaclav Vinduska	Dirk Frey	Ivan Koshkin	Kavala, Greece
2006	Modified	Vitaly Kryuchin	Ramazan Mubarakov	Davide Cerrato	Kavala, Greece
2006	Standard	Raine Peltokoski	Andrej Fegus	Roberto Ferrucc Vezzoli	Kavala, Greece
2006	Standard Manual	Luigi Silvestroni	Giovanni Di Giulio	Paolo Zambai	Kavala, Greece
2009	Open	Vaclav Vinduska	Jan Pavlik	Dirk Frey	Oparany, Czech Republic
2009	Modified	Igor Jankovic	Goran Jankovic	Geza Puskas	Oparany, Czech Republic
2009	Standard	Petri Runtti	Roberto Vezzoli	Raine Peltokoski	Oparany, Czech Republic
2009	Standard Manual	Luigi Silvestroni	Paolo Zambai	Giovanni Di Giulio	Oparany, Czech Republic

Lady category

Year	Division	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Venue
2003	Modified	Vanessa Duffy			Terni, Italy
2003	Standard Manual	Irene Canetta	Roberta Berti	Alessandra Costa	Terni, Italy
2006	Standard	Vanessa Duffy	Helen Kenneth	Svetlana Molchanova	Kavala, Greece
2009	Standard	Vanessa Duffy	Sandra Schuh	Josie Adam	Oparany, Czech Republic

Junior category

Year	Division	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Venue
2006	Standard	Vasily Plaksin	Zdenek Svehla Jnr.	Michael Harvey	Kavala, Greece

Senior category

Year	Division	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Venue
2003	Open	Giovanni Furio Liberti	Lauro Rossi	David John Clegg	Terni, Italy
2003	Standard Manual	Domenico Cadeddu	Miroslav Marek	Andrea Lancioni	Terni, Italy
2006	Open	Giovanni Furio Liberti	Mario Riillo	Georgios Soulis	Kavala, Greece
2006	Modified	Germano Taratufolo	Andrew Newman	Bernd Wiessner	Kavala, Greece
2006	Standard	Vaclav Martinek	Gavino Mura	Barry Sullivan	Kavala, Greece
2006	Standard Manual	Miroslav Marek	Lumir Safranek	Graham Hill	Kavala, Greece
2009	Open	Mario Riillo	Miroslav Marek	Julius Skoda	Oparany, Czech Republic
2009	Standard	Amedeo Sessa	Bernd Wiessner	Barry Sullivan	Oparany, Czech Republic
2009	Standard Manual	Tibor Ladic	Boguslaw Gaweda	Franc Prusnik	Oparany, Czech Republic

Super Senior category

Year	Division	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Venue
2009	Open	Pal Csefko	Hubert Kroll	Rolf Valpertz	Oparany, Czech Republic

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References

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