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Before 1988, when there are two championships, the first one is Olympics, the second one is the World Championship

Starting from 1988, the first one is either the Olympics or the World Championship, the second one is the World Cup Finals.

Odd years starting from 1989 are World Cup Finals.

Winners:
1896 S&W 44Russian
1900 Waffenfabrik Bern Swiss Ordnance Schmidt M1882, Waffenfabrik Bern Swiss Ordnance Schmidt M1882
1901 Waffenfabrik Bern Swiss Ordnance Schmidt M1882
1902 Waffenfabrik Bern Swiss Ordnance Schmidt M1882
1903 ? (Center Fire Revolver Pistol)
1904 ? (Center Fire Revolver Pistol)
1905 Sauveur .22 Matchpistol
1906 DWM Swiss Ordnance 1900 Luger P08
1907 Sauveur HS-6
1908 Sauveur HS-6, Büchel Stecherspanner
1909 Sauveur HS-6
1910 Sauveur HS-6
1911 Büchel Tell
1912 S&W Perfected Model, Büchel Tell
1913 Büchel Tell
1914 Sauveur Record
1920 S&W Perfected Model
1921 Häuptli 1
1922 Häuptli 1
1923 S&W Perfected Model
1924 Häuptli 2
1925 Häuptli 2
1927 Häuptli 2
1928 Häuptli 2
1929 Häuptli 2
1930 Häuptli 1
1931 ?
1933 Udo Anschütz Record 210
1935 Udo Anschütz Record 210
1936 Udo Anschütz Record 210
1937 Udo Anschütz Record 210
1939 Munk Zentrum 2
1947 Udo Anschütz Record 210
1948 Hämmerli MP33
1949 Hämmerli MP33
1952 Hämmerli 100, Udo Anschütz Record 210
1954 Hämmerli 100
1956 Hämmerli 100
1958 Hämmerli 100
1960 Izhmash Isch 1
1962 Tula Toz 35
1964 Hämmerli 101
1966 Tula Toz 35
1968 Izhmash Isch 1
1970 Tula Toz 35
1972 ZKIB SOO MC 55
1974 Tula Toz 35
1976 Tula Toz 35
1978 ZKIB SOO MC 55
1980 ZKIB SOO MC 55
1982 Hämmerli 152
1984 Hämmerli 150
1986 Tula Toz 35
1988 Tula Toz 35, Tula Toz 35
1989 Tula Toz 35
1990 Hämmerli 150, Hämmerli 150
1991 Hämmerli 152
1992 Tula Toz 35, Tula Toz 35
1993 Hämmerli 152
1994 Morini CM84E, Tula Toz 35
1995 Tula Toz 35
1996 Tula Toz 35, Tula Toz 35
1997 Tula Toz 35
1998 ZKIB SOO MC 55, Tula Toz 35
1999 Morini CM84E
2000 Hämmerli 152, ZKIB SOO MC 55
2001 Morini CM84E
2002 Morini CM84E, Morini CM84E
2003 Morini CM84E
2004 Morini CM84E, Tula Toz 35
2005 Tula Toz 35
2006 Morini CM84E, Morini CM84E
2007 Morini CM84E
2008 Morini CM84E, Morini CM84E
2009 Morini CM84E
2010 Morini CM84E, Tula Toz 35
2011 Tula Toz 35
2012 Morini CM84E, Morini CM84E

Most Championship by Make:
Tula 20 (1962-2011)
Morini 16 (1994-2012)
Hämmerli 11 (1948-2000)
Häuptli 8 (1921-1930)
Sauveur 6 (1905-1914)
Udo Anschütz 6 (1933-1952)
ZKIB SOO 5 (1972-2000)
S&W 4 (1896-1923)
Waffenfabrik Bern 4 (1900-1902)
Büchel 4 (1908-1913)
Izhmash 2 (1960-1968)
DWM 1 (1906)
Munk 1 (1939)
? 3

Most Championship by Model:
Toz-35 20 (1962-2011) 50 years
CM84E 16 (1994-2012) 19 Years
UAZ Record 210 6 (1933-1952) 20 Years
Häuptli Model-2 5 (1924-1929) 6 Years
MC-55 5 (1972-2000) 29 Years
Hämmerli 100 4 (1952-1958) 7 Years
HS-6 4 (1907-1910) 4 Years
Schmidt M1882 4 (1900-1902) 3 Years
Hämmerli 152 4 (1982-2000) 19 Years
Häuptli Model-1 3 (1921-1930) 10 Years
Hämmerli 150 3 (1984-1990) 7 Years
Perfected Model 3 (1912-1923) 12 Years
Tell 3 (1911-1913) 3 Years
Isch-1 2 (1960-1968) 9 years
Hämmerli MP33 (1948-1949) 2 years
Hämmerli 101 (1964)
Zentrum-2 1 (1939)
Stecherspanner 1 (1908)
Luger P08 1 (1906)
Sauveur .22 Matchpistol 1 (1905)
.44 Russian 1 (1896)
? 3

Most Longevity by Model:
Tula Toz-35 50 years
ZKIB SOO MC-55 29 Years
UAZ Record 210 20 Years
Hämmerli 152 19 Years
Morini CM84E 19 Years
S&W Perfected Model 12 Years
Häuptli Model-1 10 Years
Isch-1 2 9 years
Hämmerli 100 7 Years
Hämmerli 150 7 Years
Häuptli Model-2 6 Years
Sauveur HS-6 4 Years
Schmidt M1882 3 Years
Büchel Tell 3 Years
Hämmerli MP33 2 years
.44 Russian 1 year
Sauveur .22 Matchpistole 1 year
Hämmerli 101 1 year
Luger P08 1 year
Büchel Stecherspanner 1 year
Munk Zentrum-2 1 year
? 3 years

Switzerland 38 (1900-2012)
Soviet Union 27 (1960-2011)
Germany 12 (1906-1952)
Belgium 10 (1905-1914)
USA 4 (1896-1923)
? 3

Morini is an Italian company that moved in the Italian Switzerland.
They moved because during the '80s, in Italy the laws about guns became really strict due the political terrorism between the communist and fascist fighting factions.
Now, Cesare Morini, is back in Italy with MG.

Thanks for posting that bit of history. It is really interesting to see the progression.

The 1903 and 04 championship were won by "Gross Caliber", which I later found out from German literature and TIR competition Rule in French simply meant anything that was larger than .22, revolver or pistol. That general means center-fired cartridges. Of course the rule did not state that you could not use .22WCF, or the Vierling. After WWII the rules were stricter, had specifically asked for .22 Rimfire, and eventually only allow .22LR.

I notice that Pardini is not in the list at all. Is that because they have not made a Free pistol model for that long or the ones they have made were just were not as competitive as those makes that have won?

Scott

ciscovt wrote:I notice that Pardini is not in the list at all. Is that because they have not made a Free pistol model for that long or the ones they have made were just were not as competitive as those makes that have won?

Scott

They never won anything important internationally, whether it is the old PGP75, the K series, or the modern FPE. I noticed that Hoang Xuan Vinh, who finished 4th in the 2012 Olympics, used the Pardini to win his Vietnam quota spot in the Vietnamese Championship, but once he is in the Olympics, he switched to Morini.

Neither Match Guns nor the Hämmerli FP60 has won at the World Level.

In essence, nowadays you have a choice of buying a brand new Morini CM84E, or a second hand / NIB Toz35 to be competitive. You can get a Pardini FPE, Hämmerli FP60 or a Match Guns MG5E but you will not find much companies using the same pistol in a world level competition.

conradin wrote:The 1903 and 04 championship were won by "Gross Caliber", which I later found out from German literature and TIR competition Rule in French simply meant anything that was larger than .22, revolver or pistol. That general means center-fired cartridges. Of course the rule did not state that you could not use .22WCF, or the Vierling. After WWII the rules were stricter, had specifically asked for .22 Rimfire, and eventually only allow .22LR.

The laws introduced in Italy during the '70s-'80s were applied even to air guns with lead pellets. Consider that only in 2001 they changed the law about air guns. Now you can buy without a permit air guns with a power of 7.5 joule or less. No purchases via mail are allowed, you need to go physically to the gun shop and show an ID.

conradin wrote:"Gross Caliber", which I later found out from German literature and TIR competition Rule in French simply meant anything that was larger than .22, revolver or pistol...

To be more exact back in the early 1900s, that meant revolver competition. So the 1903 and 1904 WCH were won using a revolver. For example the 1900 Olympics the free pistol competition was actually the 50M revolver competition. The 1908 was 50 yards pistols or revolvers.
So the (Sauveur) .22 Match Pistol that Julien van Asbroeck won in 1905 was the first time a single shot pistol won the WCH. Konrad Stäheli won with a semi-automatic (Luger) the very next year. The Sauveur used the tip up action, similar to the S&W Perfected model. Richard Fisher's winning pistol in 1908 WCH is a Büchel Stecherspanner (a form of swinging block).

So it was Charles Paumier du Verger who was the person using the first ever "modern" free pistol to win a World Championship (1911): Martini Falling Block Action...same action used for over a hundred years including today's Morini CM84E. It would however take until 1936 that a modern free pistol (Martini Falling Block Action) to win the Olympics, a UAZ Record 210.