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1975 IPSC Handgun World Shoot

The 1975 World Championship in Practical Handgun Shooting

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ24884708 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1975 IPSC Handgun World Shoot I held at Zürich in Switzerland was the first IPSC Handgun World Shoot and was won by Ray Chapman of the United States using a 1911 in .45 caliber. Chapman had been central in the development of the sport of practical shooting in the late 1950s. He was seeded as number one before the championship, and shot an almost perfect match dropping only one point. He continued to compete until 1979 when he retired.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1975 IPSC Handgun World Shoot” as the 1975 World Championship in Practical Handgun Shooting. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1911, 1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where IPSC, Handgun and World can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as the 1975 World Championship in Practical Handgun Shooting. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24884708. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1911 and 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “1975 IPSC Handgun World Shoot” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.