2017 IPSC Handgun World Shoot
Division Category Gold Silver Bronze
Open Overall Simon Racaza Emile Obriot Jorge Ballesteros
Open Lady Jessica Duff Sloan Sanders -
Standard Overall Eric Grauffel Nils Konrad Jonasson Shane Coley
Standard Lady Ashley Rheuark Sissal Skaale Claire Giles
Production Overall Michal Štěpán Ljubiša Momčilović Maria Gushchina
Production Lady Maria Gushchina Margaux Nycz Cecilia Lindberg
CZ Super Six side event
Another side event on Sunday 3 September was the Super Six finals sponsored by CZ , [ 3 ] where six of the best Overall and Lady shooters in the Production , Standard and Open divisions participated . Three of the Main Match stages were shot again by one competitor at a time in an elimination cup format based on their hit factor scores . Stage 16 was the first cut , afterwards stage 15 was the semifinal and lastly stage 17 was the final between the two best shooters .
The 2017 IPSC Handgun World Shoot XVIII was the 18th IPSC Handgun World Shoot held at the new National Shooting Center in Châteauroux, France during the end of August and start of September. There were 30 stages divided into 5 areas, with each area being named after and having themes from one of the 5 continents Africa, Asia, America, Australia or Europe. The Production division saw the hardest competition of the match with the largest match participation and the winner Ben Stoeger from USA finishing under half a point in front of Russian shooter Pavel Torgashov, pushing him down into second place with the very close final score of 99.98 %. Production division arguably had the toughest top ten competition, with a margin of only 3.8 % between first and ninth place. Maria Gushchina from Russia made an impressive performance placing both first in Lady Production and sixth in Production Overall.