T all IMSSU Member Federatins INVITATION 13 th IMSSU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, 2018, SIPOO FINLAND Mr/Mrs President, dear Sir/Madam The Finnish Shting Sprt Federatin (FSSF) and the shting club Sibb Skyttegille (SSG) are prud t arrange the 13 th Metallic Silhuette Wrld Champinships. The rganizing cmmittee has the great pleasure f inviting delegatins frm all IMSSU member federatins t participate in the champinships. This bulletin cntains relevant infrmatin cncerning the champinships. Mre detailed infrmatin and all necessary frms can be fund at the champinships internet address www.imssu2018.fi The Organizing Cmmittee, IMSSU2018
COMPETITION VENUE The champinships will be held in the SIPOO Shting Centre in the municipal f Sip clse t Helsinki. Address: Ampumaradantie 105, 04130 Sip, Finland GPS crdinates: (WGS84): N 60 21.838' E 025 21.887' The range is situated 40 km frm Helsinki City Centre and 30 km frm Helsinki Vantaa Internatinal Airprt. PRELIMINARY DATE The champinship is held frm 16 th t 27 th f July 2018. Final starting date depends n the amunt f preliminary entries received by 31.12.2017. DEADLINES Preliminary Entry: 31 st f December 2017 Final Entry: 31 st f March 2018 Gun Permit Applicatin 31 st f May 2018 Entry fee payments 31 st f May 2018 Accmmdatin at fficial htels: Alternative 1) 31 st f March 2018 Alternative 2) 18 th f June 2018 PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE 16 18.7. BBR, practice and cmpetitin 19.7 Opening Ceremny 19 20.7 SBP, BBP, FP, SBR, AR and AP practice 21 26.7 SBP, BBP, FP, SBR, AR and AP incl. SBR, AR and AP sht ffs 26.7 IMSSU GENERAL MEETING 27.7 SBP and BBP sht ffs and Clsing Banquet EVENTS Big Bre Pistl (BBP): Revlver, Prductin, Standing, Unlimited; Small Bre Pistl (SBP): Revlver, Prductin, Standing, Unlimited; Field Pistl (FP): Prductin, Prductin Any Sights; Big Bre Rifle (BBR): Silhuette, Hunting; Small Bre Rifle (SBR): Silhuette, Light; Air: Air Pistl, Air Rifle; Aggregates and team events: BBP, SBP, FP, BBR, SBR, Standing; Junir Aggregates: SBP, SBR
FEES Individual Entry Fee: Air Pistl, Air Rifle Fees Team Entry Fees Banquet Fee Gun Permit Fee 45 EUR/discipline 30 EUR/discipline 80 EUR/team 30 40 EUR/persn 30 EUR/delegatin withut EU Gun Passprts All payments in EURO IBAN FI85 1981 3500 0171 11 BIC/SWIFT: NDEAFIHH accunt hlder Sibb Skyttegille Entry fee payments by 31 st f May 2018. All payments t be received in full in Eurs. Any expenses and transfer cmmissins t be paid by sending party. Banquet fees and pssible gun permit fees payable at the shting range. ELIGIBILITY: The cmpetitin is pen t shters f IMSSU member federatins. Cmpetitrs must be endrsed by the natinal member federatin f IMSSU r they must be direct members f IMSSU t be allwed t cmpete. Entries are limited t 20 cmpetitrs frm ne cuntry per discipline. Only ne natinal team per cuntry and discipline is allwed; each team will cnsist f three cmpetitrs per discipline. Each cmpetitr must submit his/her current IMSSU Classificatin Card t the range fficials during the n site registratin prcedure. If a cmpetitr has attended an internatinal champinship, he/she cannt enter a subsequent internatinal champinship in a lwer class than the ne attained by his/her mst recent results at an internatinal match. Disqualificatin culd be requested against any cmpetitr vilating this rule. VISA APPLICATIONS Fr thse delegatins/persns which need visas fr entering Finland, please request an invitatin fr visa purpse by filling the visa frm n www.imssu2018.fi Invitatin fr visa purpse shuld be requested cllectively by the natinal federatin r the head f delegatin, e.g. ne request fr all participants needing visas, nt individually ne request per cmpetitr. GUN PERMITS Thse nt travelling with an EU Gun Passprt need t apply fr a temprary gun permit. Fill the applicatin frm at www.imssu2018.fi. We will apply fr a grup permit fr each delegatin (cuntry). Please read the instructins carefully at www.imssu2018.fi.
Nte: A temprary gun permit is als needed fr all guns nt registered in a persns EU Gun passprt. Nte: Air weapns d nt need permits. OFFICIAL HOTELS The rganizing cmmittee has negtiated special rates at tw well situated, excellent htels: Break Sks Htel Flaming www.skshtels.fi/en/vantaa/sks htel flaming Original Sks Htel Vantaa www.skshtels.fi/en/vantaa/sks htel vantaa Bth htels are situated within 30 minutes frm the cmpetitin venue and nly 5 t 15 minutes frm the Helsinki Vantaa internatinal airprt. Accmmdatin at these r any ther htel is bked by the delegatins themselves directly frm the crrespnding htel. T get the special price at ne f the fficial htels, please use the special bking page specially designed fr this cmpetitin. The access cde t this bking page will be available later n www.imssu2018.fi There is a quta f specially priced single and duble rms in bth htels. There is a bigger discunt fr paying the rms when bking (alternative 1) than paying the rms later (alternative 2). The bking deadline fr getting the extra lw price (alternative 1) is 31 st f March 2018 The bking deadline fr the special price (alternative 2) is 18 th f June 2018. After these deadlines we must let g f any un bked rms in ur quta and cannt guarantee the same prices. CAR RENTALS There will be n shuttle bus frm any htel t the shting range. Arranging transprt is the respnsibility f the delegatins themselves. The rganizing cmmittee will try t negtiate special rates at a car rental service at the airprt. Mre infrmatin n this will be available shrtly n www.imssu2018.fi. COMPETITION VENUE SERVICES At the cmpetitin venue the fllwing services are available: Restaurant services: meals, snacks and refreshments (nn alchlic) can be btained in the shting range restaurant. Wireless internet services and an internet terminal is available in the shting range restaurant The range has 4G mbile phne cverage Tilets, shwers and saunas are available at the range Electricity fr a limited amunt f camping wagns and mbile hmes
NEAR BY SERVICES In the centre f Sip (7 km) can be fund banking services, medical services, pharmacy, restaurants, a petrl statin, grcery stres, a liqur stre etc RANGE INFORMATION: All distances are in metres. The clur f the targets: Pistl targets black, Rifle targets SBR range, Rifle targets BBR white Number f firing pints: BBR 8 pints + 2 sighting SBR 4 pints + 1 sighting FP 8 pints + 2 sighting SBP 12 pints + 3 sighting BBP 12 pints + 3 sighting All events will be in 40 sht matches, except that Small Bre Rifle will be in 80 sht matches (40+5, 40+5). JURIES: Each member cuntry will have t designate a candidate fr jury. The name f the candidate shuld be specified in the final entry. The jury members will be designated by the rganising cmmittee amng all the candidates. GENERAL INFO Sip, Vantaa, Helsinki and Finland: Fr infrmatin n Sip see www.sip.fi, fr Helsinki see www.helsinki.fi, fr Vantaa see www.vantaa.fi and fr Finland see www.finland.fi Weather: Fr current weather infrmatin see the weather services at www.fmi.fi All infrmatin and frms t fill can be fund at www.imssu2018.fi Mail: inf@imssu2018.fi Welcme t the 13 th IMSSU Wrld Champinships, t Sip and t Finland!