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| Sport | Practical shooting |
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| Category | Shooting sport |
| Jurisdiction |  International |
| Membership | 108 regions[1] |
| Abbreviation | IPSC |
| Founded | May 24, 1976 |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| President | Vitaly Kryuchin[2] (2018–present) |
| Official website | |
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The International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) is the world's 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, the Middle East, and Oceania.[1] Competitions are held with pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns, and the 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 separate awards for the categories Lady (female competitors), Super Junior (under 16 years), Junior (under 18 years), Senior (over 50 years), and Super Senior (over 60 years).
IPSC's activities include international regulation of the sport by approving firearms and equipment for various divisions, administering competition rules, and educating range officials (referees) through the International Range Officers Association who are responsible for conducting matches safely, fairly, and according to the rules. IPSC organizes the World Championships called the Handgun World Shoot, Rifle World Shoot, and Shotgun World Shoot with three-year intervals for each discipline.
In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the IPSC cancelled all scheduled and future level 3 and above international competitions in Russia.[3][4]
- ^ a b "IPSC.org : Regions". Archived from the original on August 2, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
- ^ "Minutes of the Forty-First IPSC General Assembly Chateauroux, France, Saturday, 26 August, 2017, 9:00 am" (PDF). IPSC. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 1, 2017.
- ^ "IPSC World Body's Position, Opposition to Russia's Invasion of the Ukraine". March 4, 2022.
- ^ "IPSC Has Sanctioned Russia, Cancels all Major Matches in Russia". March 2022. Archived from the original on June 16, 2022. Retrieved June 16, 2022.