IPSC Nordic Rifle Championship explained

The IPSC Nordic Rifle Championship is a yearly IPSC level 3 rifle championship hosted in either Norway, Sweden, Finland or Denmark.

History

• 2001 Hell, 20-23. June
• 2002 Steinsjøen
• 2003 Borris, 31 May - 1 June
• 2004 Oulu, 10-11 July
• 2005 Elverum, 16-18 September
• 2006 Borris, 27-28 May
• 2007 Hamina, 14-15 July
• 2008 Kongsberg, 12-13 July
• 2009 (No championship held)
• 2010 Kouvola and Hamina, 10-11 July
• 2011 Copenhagen, 16-17 July
• 2012 Herrljunga, 14-15 July
• 2013 Snillfjord, 6-7 July
• 2014 Kouvola and Heinola, 23-24 August
• 2015 Copenhagen, 6-7 June
• 2016 Snillfjord, 30-31 July
• 2017 Karlskoga, 12-13 August
• 2018 Hanko and Kirkkonummi, 7-8 July

Nordic champions

The following is a list of current and past champions.

Overall category

Year	Division	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Venue
2001		Even Skaarer	Odd Strengenes	Frank Sandås	Hell, Norway
2002		Even Skaarer	Steinar Haugli	Flemming Pedersen	Steinsjøen, Norway
2003		Geir A. B. Wollmann	Mika Riste	Sverre Idland	Borris, Denmark
2004	Open	Even Skaarer	Frank Sandås	Tommi Forsell	Oulu, Finland
2004	Standard	Sverre Idland	Marko Kervola	Jari Karvonen	Oulu, Finland
2005	Open	Raine Peltokoski	Odd Strengenes	Tommi Verho	Terningmoen, Norway
2005	Standard	Sverre Idland	Jari Rastas	Runar Staveli	Terningmoen, Norway
2006	Open	Frank Sandås	Even Skaarer	Raine Peltokoski	Borris, Denmark
2006	Standard	Isto Hyyryaläinen	Sverre Idland	Per-Erik Salvesen	Borris, Denmark
2007	Open	Hannu Uronen	Frank Sandås	Raine Peltokoski	Hamina, Finland
2007	Standard	Sverre Idland	Tommi Verho	Isto Hyyryaläinen	Hamina, Finland
2008	Open	Kristian Rommen	Antti Hintsanen	Mikael Kaislaranta	Heistadmoen, Kongsberg
2008	Standard	Sverre Idland	Mika Riste	Jari Rastas	Heistadmoen, Kongsberg
2009	No championship held
2010	Open	Raine Peltokoski	Petri H Runtti	Juha Niemelä	Finland
2010	Standard	Isto Hyyryläinen	Mika J Riste	Mikko Kuisma	Finland
2011	Open	Christian Thomsen	Jarkko Laukia	Kimmo Iso-Tuisku	Denmark
2011	Standard	Isto Hyyryläinen	Mikael Kaislaranta	Mika Riste	Denmark
2012	Open	Jarkko Laukia	Frank Sandås	Tuukka Jokinen	Herrljunga, Sweden
2012	Standard	Mika Riste	Mikael Kaislaranta	Ilkka Kervinen	Herrljunga, Sweden
2013	Open	Jarkko Laukia	Kristian Rommen	Frank Sandås	Snillfjord, Norway
2013	Standard	Sami Hautamäki	Sverre Idland	Kristian Førde	Snillfjord, Norway
2013	Manual Open	Jan Terje Jørgensen	Lars Selven	Geir Ivar Bredgaten	Snillfjord, Norway
2013	Manual Standard	Lars Bjarne Oddan	Frank Storsve		Snillfjord, Norway
2014	Open	Raine Peltokoski	Jarkko Laukia	Teemu Rintala	Finland
2014	Standard	Sami Hautamäki	Timo Vehviläinen	Ilkka Siitonen	Finland
2015	Open	Jarkko Laukia	Rasmus Gyllenberg	Michael Lindgjerdet	Denmark
2015	Standard	Håvard Østgaard	Sami Hautamäki	Atte Vainionpää	Denmark
2015	Manual Open	Christian Sandvik	Tom Karlsen	Henrik Lerfeldt	Denmark
2016	Open	Teemu Rintala	Kristian Rommen	Tuukka Jokinen	Snillfjord, Norway
2016	Standard	Håvard Østgaard	Atte Vainionpää	Isto Hyyryläinen	Snillfjord, Norway
2016	Manual Open	Jørgen Løe	Jan Terje Jørgensen	Torleiv Rime	Snillfjord, Norway
2017	Open	Jarkko Laukia	Vegard Fredriksen	Olle Ackehed	Karlskoga, Sweden
2017	Standard	Sami Hautamäki	Håvard Østgaard	Atte Vainionpää	Karlskoga, Sweden
2017	Manual Open	Jiro Nihei	Jon Johansson	Jørgen Tang Nielsen	Karlskoga, Sweden
2018	Open	Jarkko Laukia	Marcus Madsen	Kristian Rommen	Hanko and Kirkkonummi, Finland
2018	Standard	Sami Hautamäki	Teemu Rintala	Timo Vehviläinen	Hanko and Kirkkonummi, Finland

Lady category

Year	Division	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Venue
2010	Open	Cathrine Normann	Paula Takkumäki	Ritva Kaase	Finland
2012	Open	Marianne Schön	Sofia Dohmen	Kattis Edfeldt	Herrljunga, Sweden
2016	Open Lady	Emilie Skårild	Kristina Olsson	Ann-Kathrin Mulstad	Snillfjord, Norway
2017	Open	Marika Koskinen	Emilie Skårild	Pia Clerté	Karlskoga, Sweden
2018	Open	Ann-Kathrin Mulstad	Marika Koskinen	Miia Kaartinen	Hanko and Kirkkonummi, Finland

Senior category

Year	Division	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Venue
2006	Open	Tim Andersen			Borris, Denmark
2010	Open	Ari Honkala	Wilhelm R Backlund	Markku Koistinen	Finland
2011	Open	Tomas Hemander	Kim Snerup Nielsen	Anders Nilsson	Denmark
2012	Open	Kim Snerup Nielsen	Anders Nilsson	Tomas Hermander	Herrljunga, Sweden
2014	Open	Johan Hansen	Johan Lindberg	Pertti Karhunen	Finland
2014	Standard	Sverre Idland	Ilkka Kervinen	Jari Prittinen	Finland
2015	Open	Johan Hansen	Tore Fiborg	Svein Helge Hennum	Copenhagen, Denmark
2015	Standard	Mikael Kaislaranta	Sverre Idland	Atte Vainionpää	Copenhagen, Denmark
2016	Open	Johan Hansen	Tåle Johnstad	Per Bergfeldt	Snillfjord, Norway
2017	Open	Per Bergfeldt	Tore Fiborg	Patrik Gren	Karlskoga, Sweden
2018	Open	Lars Syversen	Mika Riste	Leif Madsen	Hanko and Kirkkonummi, Finland
2018	Standard	Mikael Kaislaranta	Ilkka Siitonen	Sverre Idland	Hanko and Kirkkonummi, Finland

Super Senior category

Year	Division	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Venue
2010	Open	Tarmo Rinne	Markku Koistinen		Finland
2017	Open	Per Jonasson	Johan Mattsson	Walter Kitzinger	Karlskoga, Sweden
2018	Open	Pertti Karhunen	Per Jonasson	Veijo Ratilainen	Hanko and Kirkkonummi, Finland

Teams

Year	Division	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Venue
2006	Open	Norway Frank Sandås, Even Skaarer, Odd Strengenes, Henning Wallgren	Finland Raine Peltokoski, Tommi Verho, Tommi Forsel, Mikael Kaislaranta	Denmark Kim Nielsen, Peter Stausholm, Ib Rene Hansen, K B Svendsen	Borris, Denmark
	Standard	Finland Isto Hyyryaläinen, Jari Rastas, Jarno Rantanen, Petri Syvänne	Norway Sverre Idland, Per-Erik Salvesen, Øystein Grande, Runar Staveli	Denmark Lars Hagemann, Carl Erik Sander, Michael Bickham, Per Jensen

References

• DSSN Hall of Fame
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2003 Nordic Rifle Championship, Denmark
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2004 Nordic Rifle Championship, Finland
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2005 Nordic Rifle Championship, Norway
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2006 Nordic Rifle Championship, Denmark
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2007 Nordic Rifle Championship, Finland
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2008 Nordic Rifle Championship, Norway
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2010 Nordic Rifle Championship, Finland
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2011 Nordic Rifle Championship, Denmark
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2012 Nordic Rifle Championship, Sweden
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2013 Nordic Rifle Championship, Norway
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2014 Nordic Rifle Championship, Finland
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2015 Nordic Rifle Championship, Denmark
• Shoot'n Score It :: Match Results - 2016 Nordic Rifle Championship
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2017 Nordic Rifle Championship, Sweden
• IPSC :: Match Results - 2018 Nordic Rifle Championship, Finland