{"id":28440,"date":"2014-02-25T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T22:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=28440"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:43:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T15:43:01","slug":"venezuelas-sanchez-takes-high-international-at-sw-idpa-indoor-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/venezuelas-sanchez-takes-high-international-at-sw-idpa-indoor-nationals\/28440\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s Sanchez Takes High International At S&W IDPA Indoor Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SWIN14-MAS-1\"<\/a>SPRINGFIELD, Mass. \u2013 Venezuela\u2019s lock on the High International title at the Smith & Wesson IDPA<\/a> Indoor National Championship remains in place as Miguel Angel Sanchez led a Venezuelan sweep of the top four spots in the contest among non-U.S. shooters.<\/p>\n

Some 30 shooters representing Italy, Venezuela and the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico battled for the High International title.<\/p>\n

Sanchez, who competed as a Master in the Stock Service Pistol division, finished with a time of 221.45 seconds with 110 points down. Second place went to Nelso Lopez Iglesias, a Master shooter in the Enhanced Service Pistol division, with 227.76 (80).<\/p>\n

Coming in third was the 2012 winner and fellow countryman Juan Carlos Gonzalez Valdez who competed as a Master in the Enhanced Service Pistol division, finishing with 227.76 (80). Rounding out the top five were Rafahel Gandica, another ESP Master, with 243.34 (142) and Puerto Rico\u2019s Max Rivera who finished with 278.53 (149) competing as an SSP Master.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Smith & Wesson Indoor Nationals always draws a large number of international shooters. This year we welcome Miguel as our newest International champion,\u201d said Joyce Wilson, executive director of IDPA.<\/p>\n

The 2014 Smith & Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship took place February 20-22 at the Smith & Wesson Shooting Sports Center in Springfield, Mass., drawing many of\u00a0the shooting sports’ top pistol and revolver shooters from across the country and outside the U.S. Full results are available online at IDPA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information on IDPA, the Smith & Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship or to find a club near you, visit www.IDPA.com. You can further connect with the IDPA community through IDPA\u2019s social media, such as @OfficialIDPA<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter and ShootIDPA on Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Pinterest<\/a> and Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0or check for regular news and updates on the\u00a0organization\u2019s DOWN ZERO Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. \u2013 Venezuela\u2019s lock on the High International title at the Smith & Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship remains in place as Miguel Angel Sanchez led a Venezuelan sweep of the top four spots in the contest among non-U.S. shooters. Some 30 shooters representing Italy, Venezuela and the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico battled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[164,2597],"tags":[2362,3335,59],"class_list":["post-28440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports","tag-idpa-indoor-nationals","tag-miguel-angel-sanchez","tag-smith-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}