Vitaly Kryuchin

Vitaly Kryuchin is a Russian sport shooter and president of the International Practical Shooting Confederation^[1] and Russian Federation of Practical Shooting. He has one gold and bronze medal from the IPSC European Shotgun Championship (2003 and 2006) and one gold medal from the IPSC European Handgun Championship (2007).

Vitaly Kryuchin

Vitaly Kryuchin at the 2017 IPSC Rifle World Shoot
Personal information
Born	26. July 1963 (1963-07-26) (age 60)
Medal record IPSC Representing  Russia IPSC European Handgun Championship 2007 Production IPSC Russian Handgun Championship 2003 Production 2004 Open IPSC European Shotgun Championship 2003 Modified 2006 Modified IPSC Russian Shotgun Championship 2003 Open 2004 Open

Beside competition shooting, Kryuchin is known for his point shooting skills. A video went viral in September 2016 where he teamed up with an orchestra of two singers, a violinist and a keyboardist, and played the Ode To Joy by Beethoven, Old MacDonald Had a Farm and a traditional Russian tune by shooting at pitched steel plates.^[2]

References

1. "Minutes of the Forty-First IPSC General Assembly Chateauroux, France, Saturday, 26 August, 2017, 9:00 am" (PDF). Minutes of the Forty-First IPSC General Assembly Chateauroux, France, Saturday, 26 August, 2017, 9:00 am.
2. Russian marksman takes a pot shot at Beethoven

External links

• Glockophone music - YouTube - practical shooting channel