Sniper World Cup ‘09
The Sniper World Cup is an sniper competition for police and military snipers held annually in Budapest, Hungary. The name is somewhat of a misnomer as the competition seems to be primarily made up of European teams, but it is open to all countries.
This year Russia won with the Ukraine coming second and Macedonia third. It is quite an achievement for Macedonia which has a population of only 2.1 million.
These photos are of the competition in 2007:
The range officers are armed … just in case of international incidents I suppose 
This photo was from the 2008 competition. Interesting position.
I wonder how this stacks up against he best sniper competition the US Army throws at Ft Benning that you can see on the Military Channel. I know its only a couple of pics but the one of the two guys “cuddling” doesn’t make this look too realistic. On the top sniper show it had them going through some pretty realistic scenarios, such as shooting at moving targets in a crowd, dismounting from withing a armored vehicle and having to quickly orient themselves with multiple targets, a times stalk and shoot and even shooting at targets from a helicopter.
Again, just my
How did US do?
Looks kind of fun.
What sort of events are there? And I must ask if bolt action and semi-auto are segregated.
Not much of a “world cup” if it’s only open to government employees if you ask me.
Can anyone explain the cuddle position? Is that for stability or something? Or just for fun?
looking closely at the “cuddle” position, the bottom guy appears to be using his legs to hold a U-shaped rifle bag, look at where the bipod is relative to his leg to sort of confirm this. His shoulder is being used as a bench, maybe with another bag resting on it?
The reason that Russia won is because all of the capable countries are hard at work protecting their citizens from terrorism.
It does appear that the cuddle position provides essentially a bench, but not sure what the advantage of it over prone is. The only thing I can see is if the extra height is needed to clear an obstacle. It seems to compromise the shooters grip somewhat, and certainly won’t be as stable as a firm rest, but it’s probably better than seated/kneeling.
Actually, it was the Czech Republic that won the event in 2009 by Richard Marek or something. So it wasn’t Russia this time.
This is as much of a misnomer as “the NFL World Champions Pittsburgh Steelers.”
I think the award should go to the US Navy team that took out the Somali pirates.
So what team really won?
I was at this event and trust me the shots were very hard, the temperature was fearsome and the near sadistic corses of fire threw a hell of us out due to never having to shoot like that normally, I learnt a hell of a lot and skipped 2009 so as to give myself a chance.
The top 10 places were occupied by only the best, The fact that the American/Aus didn’t put up a team was a shame (I was one of the few English speakers there) hopefully 2010 will change this.
There was a wide range of guns in use, but truly the “nut behind the butt” was the only real factor, I did feel sorry for the Chinese as they had come the furthest and got pummeled, nice guys though (when the political officer wasn’t around).
Oh Russia won, they were incredable and very much of the same cloth as Zeitsev.
Please don’t disregard this event as it is quite new and the Hungarians put on a great shoot for us, the UK has such restrictions on it that practice is hard to get (our olympic team has to practice in Switzerland), the USA is hard to get a rifle into for comps but we are working on it (ideas guys?)
oops on last, I shot in 2008 but nice to hear that Czech won.
Congratulation for the macedonian police unit and their success to won the 3rd place. We were always the best soldiers since Alexander the Great.