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2019 IPSC Rifle World Shoot
Official logo of the 2019 IPSC Rifle World Shoot
Venue	Villingsberg's shooting range
Location	Karlskoga, Sweden
Dates	Opening Ceremony: 3 Aug Main Match: 4-9 Aug Shoot-Off: 10 Aug Closing Ceremony: 10 Aug
Competitors	669 from 37 nations
Medalists
Open (Largest Division) Jarkko Laukia   Raine Peltokoski   Vadim Mikhailov
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The 2019 IPSC Rifle World Shoot II was held in Karlskoga, Sweden between 3 and 10 August.^[1] The match consisted of 30 stages over six days, and over 650 competitors^[2][3] Jarkko Laukia from Finland took gold in the Open division, which was the largest division of the match.

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.^[4][5][6] 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.^[7][8] The match had a capacity of approximately 750 competitors.^[9]

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.^[8]

The match had stable weather conditions.

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
Gold	Jarkko Laukia	2378.8940	100.00%
Silver	Raine Peltokoski	2344.9589	98.57%
Bronze	Vadim Mikhailov	2251.0231	94.62%
4th	Teemu Rintala	2245.9468	94.41%
5th	Olle Ackehed	2225.5517	93.55%
6th	Tim Yackley	2197.6912	92.38%
7th	Marcus Madsen	2197.1548	92.36%
8th	Kyle Litzie	2189.1600	92.02%
9th	Dagnis Maiberg	2168.2678	91.15%
10th	Eirik Johannes Larsen	2156.5641	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	Points	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

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
Gold	Sami Hautamäki	2510.4513	100.00%
Silver	Joseph Easter	2286.4597	91.08%
Bronze	Håvard Østgaard	2263.5465	90.16%
4th	Kenneth Handberg	2250.4614	89.64%
5th	Madis Reier	2165.4857	86.26%
6th	Arseniy Denisov	2129.4978	84.83%
7th	Atte Vainionpää	2118.8657	84.40%
8th	Kelly Neal	2111.3216	84.10%
9th	Evigeniy Kalinin	2066.8526	82.33%
10th	Alan Alborov	2062.6652	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%

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

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

Individual

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

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,^[10] the Swedish national public television broadcaster.

Division	Category	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Open	Overall	Olle Ackehed
	Lady	Lena Miculek
	Junior	Riley Kropff
	Senior	Georgy Shkoda
	Super Senior	Jerry Miculek
Standard	Overall	Kenneth Handberg
	Senior	Kelly Neal
Manual Open	Overall	Ivanshko
	Senior	Dan Liljeström
Manual Standard	Overall	Vladimir Yakovlev

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