2025 IPSC Handgun World Shoot

26°47′36″S 26°49′02″E / 26.7932°S 26.8173°E / -26.7932; 26.8173

2025 IPSC Handgun World Shoot
Venue	Frontier Shooting Range
Location	Matlosana, South Africa
Dates	Opening Ceremony: 21 Sep Main Match: 22-27 Sep Shoot-Off: 28 Sep Closing Ceremony: 28 Sep
Competitors	1622 from 86 nations
Medalists
Production Optics (Largest Division) Eric Grauffel   Emile Obriot   Jacob Hetherington
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The 2025 IPSC Handgun World Shoot XX was held at Frontier Shooting Range, Stilfontein, near Matlosana, South Africa between 22 and 27 August.^{[1] [2][3]} This year's edition is a six-day event, consisting of more than 1600 competitors playing 30 stages, broken up into three courses, short (12 rounds or less), medium (13-24) and long (25-32), making each competitor prove their skills are fast and accurate with nearly 600 rounds.^[4]

Eric Grauffel (FRA) won the largest division (Production Optics). Emile Obriot (FRA) won silver and Jacob Hetherington (USA) bronze.^[5]

Results

Standard

The Standard division had 280 participants. Philippines bagged the gold and silver with Rolly Tecson scoring 100.00% Overall and Kahlil Adrian Viray scoring 99.93%. The USA got bronze with Scott Brown scoring 95.30%.^[5]

Overall

Overall	Competitor	Points	Overall Match Percent
Gold	Rolly Tecson	2647.3006	100.00%
Silver	Kahlil Adrian Viray	2645.4314	99.93%
Bronze	Scott Brown	2522.8785	95.30%

Junior

Junior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Ryan Hladík	2217.3331	100.00%		77.86%
Silver	Kilian Molitor	1681.3100	81.57%		63.51%
Bronze	Naruethon Jarupianlert	1639.6200	79.54%		61.94%

Lady

Lady	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Margaux Nycz	2005.0300	100.00%		75.74%
Silver	Kanyanat Prasertcharoensuk	1632.7000	81.43%		61.67%
Bronze	Pattharathida Makaew	1617.6400	80.68%		61.11%

Lady Senior

Lady Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Eurika Du Plooy	1335.5300	100.00%		50.45%
Silver	Elsa Joaquim	1308.0400	97.94%		49.41%
Bronze	Zuzana Botková	1287.2800	96.39%		48.63%

Senior

Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Josef Rakusan	2217.3331	100.00%		83.76%
Silver	Petr Znamenacek	2077.9008	93.71%		78.49%
Bronze	Slavko Obradović	2011.9587	90.74%		76.00%

Super Senior

S.Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Adriano Ciro Santarcangelo	1949.1100	100.00%		73.63%
Silver	Jesus Ferreiro Rodriguez	1846.8900	94.76%		69.76%
Bronze	Ilya Gubin	1776.1500	91.13%		67.09%

Grand Senior

Grand Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Esterino Magli	1692.0300	100.00%		63.92%
Silver	Dietmar Rauer	1430.6900	84.55%		54.04%
Bronze	Slavek Kurczewski	1355.4900	80.11%		51.20%

Classic

Classic divison was the second smallest divison with 142 competitors. There was a close race for the third place with 4 competitors being in 0.73 percent of each other ^[5]

Overall

Overall	Competitor	Points	Overall Match Percent
Gold	Robert Černigoj	2597.9894	100.00%
Silver	Jeffrey Cawthon	2499.4743	96.21%
Bronze	Jakub Marx	2487.2600	95.74%

Lady

Lady	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Jalise Williams	2315.0417	100.00%		89.11%
Silver	Nannalin Luangprasert	1693.3254	73.14%		65.18%
Bronze	Lenn lie Grace Onahon	1619.4403	69.95%		62.33%

Senior

Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	György Batki	2327.6883	100.00%		89.60%
Silver	Jethro Dionisio	1816.6255	98.88%		88.59%
Bronze	Daryl Gascon	1801.8980	93.55%		83.82%

Super Senior

S. Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Nicola Domenico Pedroli	1968.5099	100.00%		75.77%
Silver	Valter Tranquilli	1904.9112	96.77%		73.32%
Bronze	Antonio Cases	1819.4016	92.43%		70.03%

Grand Senior

Grand Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Carlos Bicalho	1633.8933	100.00%		62.89%
Silver	Andre Van Straaten	1412.6887	86.46%		54.38%
Bronze	Joel Gerard	1355.7435	82.98%		52.18%

Revolver

The Revolver division was the smallest division in this World Shoot with only 37 competitors. Jay Slater secured the third place with only 0,04 percent ahead of Alex Bakken who finished fourth^[5].

Overall

Overall	Competitor	Points	Overall Match Percent
Gold	Michael Poggie	2617.1949	100.00%
Silver	Rich Wolfe	2504.4075	95.69%
Bronze	Jay Slater	2452.6563	93.71%

Senior

Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Gerald Reiter	2252.0272	100.00%		86.05%
Silver	Moacir Azevedo	2112.6084	93.81%		80.72%
Bronze	Norasaed Chatratthapong	2034.7276	90.35%		77.74%

Production Optics

Eric Grauffel managed to win the largest division (430 competitors) with a lead of 4.14% over the second place.^[5]

Overall

Overall	Competitor	Points	Overall Match Percent
Gold	Eric Grauffel	2641.400	100.00%
Silver	Emile Obriot	2532.0742	95.86%
Bronze	Jacob Hetherington	2507.9225	94.95%

Super Junior

Super Junior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Olebile Sefolo	1540.0400	100.00%		58.30%
Silver	Adelén Sollyst	1488.9300	96.68%		56.37%
Bronze	Lea Brits	1168.5900	75.88%		44.24%

Junior

Junior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Robin Grauffel	2402.8448	100.00%		90.97%
Silver	Lehan Potgieter	2274.3600	94.65%		86.10%
Bronze	Prabu Rakyan Nalyndra	2266.6500	94,33%		85.81%

Lady

Lady	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Justine Williams	2102.9200	100.00%		79.61%
Silver	Cecilia Lindberg	2015.1700	95.83%		76.29%
Bronze	Naomi Phegan	2007.5400	95.46%		76.00%

Lady Senior

Lady Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Barbara Balestrini	1622.3600	100.00%		61.42%
Silver	Claudia Remek-Lentz	1585.4600	97.73%		60.02%
Bronze	Janita Kruger	1399.3300	86.25%		52.98%

Senior

Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Paul Phegan	2197.2100	100.00%		83.18%
Silver	Jerome Morales	2174.0000	98.94%		82.30%
Bronze	Miroslav Zapletal	2148.2200	97.77%		81.33%

Super Senior

S. Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Niclas Dal	1943.8300	100.00%		73.59%
Silver	Jose Zanón	1898.3100	97.66%		71.87%
Bronze	James Smith	1748.8100	89.97%		66.21%

Grand Senior

Grand Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Anthony Johnson	1439.0000	100.00%		54.48%
Silver	Thompson Mauro	1315.5800	91.42%		49.81%
Bronze	Stephanus Weyers	1181.0700	82.08%		44.71%

Production

The second largest Division (421 competitors) was won by Mason Lane (USA). Argentina secured the second and thrid place with German Romitelli and Juan Pablo Duran^[5]

Overall

Overall	Competitor	Points	Overall Match Percent
Gold	Mason Lane	2584.7700	100.00%
Silver	German Romitelli	2563.2000	99.17%
Bronze	Juan Pablo Duran	2539.2900	98.24%

Junior

Junior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Julian Gonzalez	2319.4000	100.00%		89.73%
Silver	Acol Bullet Pascual	2282.2200	98.40%		88.29%
Bronze	František Blaha	2235.5500	96.39%		86.49%

Lady

Lady	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Camilla Almici	2178.6100	100.00%		84.29%
Silver	Petra Nemcova	2027.4400	93.06%		78.44%
Bronze	Sissal Skaale	2002.4400	91.91%		77.47%

Lady Senior

Lady Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Rosa Maria Domènech Mestres	1616.4600	100.00%		62.54%
Silver	Carina Randolph	1557.2100	96.33%		60.25%
Bronze	Lise Mahoney	1490.3400	92.20%		57.66%

Senior

Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Eduardo De Cobos Abreu	2450.9900	100.00%		92.82%
Silver	Ljubiša Momčilović	2209.5700	90.15%		85.48%
Bronze	Claudio Cozzella	2199.7400	89.75%		85.10%

Super Senior

S. Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Edoardo Roberto Buticchi	1956.9700	100.00%		75.71%
Silver	Iosif Iosif	1923.9200	98.31%		74.43%
Bronze	Adrian Burgos	1876.0100	95.86%		72.58%

Open

All 3 medals in Open Overall were won by US Shooters. Christian Sailer came in first with Michael Hwang and Bryan Jones following on second and third place.^[5]

Overall

Overall	Competitor	Points	Overall Match Percent
Gold	Christian Sailer	2684.9400	100.00%
Silver	Michael Hwang	2548.4800	94.92%
Bronze	Bryan Jones	2505.1500	93.30%

Junior

Junior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Siraphob Hemmala	2300.7800	100.00%		85.69%
Silver	Gian Gumagay	2264.8900	98.44%		84.36%
Bronze	Luisito Miguel De Guzman	2187.6200	95.08%		81.48%

Lady

Lady	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Denny Rossetto	2128.2600	100.00%		79.27%
Silver	Erin Mattea Micor	2056.9500	96.65%		76.61%
Bronze	Martina Sera	2031.1800	95.44%		75.65%

Lady Senior

Lady Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Margit Steurer	1704.0400	100.00%		63.47%
Silver	Carina Trevisani	1519.5600	89.17%		56.60%
Bronze	Barbara Franchini	1515.4900	88.93%		56.44%

Senior

Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Brodie McIntosh	2473.5400	100.00%		92.13%
Silver	Daniel Horacio Minaglia	2405.5600	97.25%		89.59%
Bronze	Henning Wallgren	2227.8600	90.07%		82.98%

Super Senior

S. Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	Joe Draghi	2098.9100	100.00%		78.17%
Silver	Frank William Garcia	2021.3600	96.31%		75.29%
Bronze	Leighton Oosthuisen	1958.3300	93.30%		72.94%

Grand Senior

Grand Senior	Competitor	Points	Category Match Percent		Overall Match Percent
Gold	José Josias Lucena Ferreira	1635.5900	100.00%		60.92%
Silver	Jaime Roberto Maia Saldanha	1572.1400	96.12%		58.55%
Bronze	Carlo Belletti	1570.9800	96.05%		58.51%

See also

• IPSC Rifle World Shoots
• IPSC Shotgun World Shoot
• IPSC Handgun World Shoots
• IPSC Action Air World Shoot

References

1. "2025 IPSC Handgun World Shoot". Retrieved 2025-09-28.
2. "(SP)SOUTH AFRICA-MATLOSANA-IPSC-HANDGUN WORLD SHOOT". Retrieved 2025-09-30.
3. Perey, Stefan. "Background report on the 2025 IPSC Handgun World Shoot in South Africa with first impressions and information". all4shooters.com. VS Medien GmbH. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
4. Lunato, Michelle (September 18, 2025). "U.S. Soldiers to Compete in International Handgun Championships". US Department of War. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
5. "Overall Results" (PDF). 2025hws.worldshoot.org. Retrieved 2025-09-28.