The 2014
IPC Shooting World Championships The World Shooting Para Sport Championships, originally known as the IPC Shooting World Championships, are the world championships for shooting
Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, ...
was an international shooting competition for athletes with a disability. It consisted of twelve events and was held at the Schießsportzentrum in
Suhl
Suhl () is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located SW of Erfurt, NE of Würzburg and N of Nuremberg. With its 37,000 inhabitants, it is the smallest of the six urban districts within Thuringia. Together with its northern neighbour-town Zella- ...
, Germany from 18 to 26 July. The Championships were contested by 265 competitors from 53 nations, with South Korea finishing top of the medal table with most gold medals (10) and medals won (17). During the qualification and finals, nine world records were equaled or broken and multiple regional records were set.
The 2014 Championship was a qualifying event for the
2016 Summer Paralympics
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, nations = 159
, athletes = 4,342
, opening = 7 September
, closing = 18 September
, opened_by = President Michel Temer
, cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva
, events = 528 in 22 sports
, stadium = Maracanã
, sum ...
in Rio, Brazil. It was the first individual sport to assign competitors to the 2016 Games with 28 countries winning a total of 63 spots. South Korea were the most successful nation, claiming 11 places while China, Norway, Russia and Ukraine took four a-piece.
This proved to be the final event branded as the "IPC Shooting World Championships". On 30 November 2016, the IPC, which serves as the international federation for 10 disability sports, including shooting, adopted the "World Para" brand for all 10 sports. The world championship events in all of these sports were immediately rebranded as "World Para" championships. At the same time, the IPC changed the official name of the sport to "shooting Para sport". Accordingly, future IPC shooting championships are known as "World Shooting Para Sport Championships".
Classification
Paralympic shooters were classified according to the extent of their disability. The classification system allowed shooters to compete against others with a similar level of function.
Shooting classifications are:
*
SH1 - competitors who do not need a shooting stand
*
SH2 - competitors who use a shooting stand to support the firearm's weight
World records
At the championships eight new world records were set and one was equaled.
Medal summary
Medal table
This ranking sorts countries by the number of gold medals earned by their shooters (in this context a nation is an entity represented by a
National Paralympic Committee
A National Paralympic Committee (NPC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Paralympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), NPCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the ...
). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.
:
Medalists
Pistol
Men's
Women's
Mixed
Rifle
Men's
Women's
Mixed
Participating nations
Below is the list of countries who took part in the 2014 Shooting World Championships and in brackets behind are the number of competitors each country sent.
* (1)
* (20)
* (15)
* (13)
* (31)
* (2)
* (5)
* (26)
* (9)
* (14)
* (1)
* (2)
* (10)
* (1)
* (6)
* (16)
* (47)
* (11)
* (34)
* (3)
* (8)
* (6)
* (11)
* (5)
* (2)
* (25)
* (5)
* (2)
* (2)
* (1)
* (5)
* (12)
* (2)
* (7)
* (19)
* (22)
* (2)
* (37)
* (1)
* (29)
* (20)
* (14)
* (2)
* (40)
* (4)
* (30)
* (3)
* (31)
* (43)
* (15)
* (24)
* (1)
* (1)
References
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External links
Official Site of the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships
World Shooting Para Sport Championships
Paralympics
Shooting competitions in Germany
International sports competitions hosted by Germany
2014 in German sport