Tim Yackley (born 1998) is an American

sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such a ...

who won the 2018 NRA World Shooting Championship, becoming the youngest person to ever win the event. He took bronze in the Standard division Junior category at the

2015 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot The 2015 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot II held at the shooting range "Le Tre Piume" near Agna, Italy was the 2nd IPSC Shotgun World Shoot. The match consisted of 30 stages over 5 days and 635 competitors from 30 nations. Champions Open The Open ...

in Italy. At the

2017 IPSC Rifle World Shoot The 2017 IPSC Rifle World Shoot I held at the Patriot Park in Kubinka, Moscow, Russia was the first IPSC Rifle World Shoot. The match consisted of 30 stages over 6 days and 591 competitors from 40 nations. Originally the championship was planned ...

he placed 10th overall in the Open division. In June 2018, Yackley competed at the

2018 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot The 2018 IPSC Shotgun World Shoot III was the third IPSC Shotgun World Shoot, and was held at the National Shooting Center in Châteauroux, France between 3. and 10. June 2018. Champions Open The Open division had the second largest match pa ...

in France, finishing seventh overall in standard and helping Team USA win a team silver medal. Tim was also

the Bianchi Cup The Bianchi Cup is a major action pistol tournament in the United States, usually held over three days in late May. Since 1984 the National Rifle Association of America has designated it their National Action Pistol Championship. It is norma ...

Junior National Champion for 4 years in a row (2015-2018) and the NRA Action Pistol Junior World Champion in 2018. He is a versatile shooter and has competed in IPSC, USPSA,

multigun Multigun, Multi Gun or Multi-Gun, often also called 2-Gun or 3-Gun depending on the types of firearms used, are practical shooting events where each of the stages require the competitor to use a combination of handguns, rifles, and/or shotguns Mult ...

, NRA Action Pistol and Palma long range rifle shooting. His practical shooting career started when he attended a USPSA junior camp in 2011 and the next summer attended the 2012 MGM Junior Camp. In the 2012 fall he started competing actively in 3-gun. Tim travels the country with his entire family, also known as The Yackley 5 (Mark, Becky, Tim, Sean, and Andrew), all 5 of whom actively compete in a variety of shooting competitions.

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Tim Yackley Practical Shooting
1998 births Living people {{US-sportshooting-bio-stub 21st-century American sportsmen IPSC shooters