When asked during Wednesday's practice session at the World Speed Shooting Championships if he would win this year's Steel Challenge, K.C. Eusebio's reply was a playful but cocky "what do you think?" Whether it was cockiness or confidence, Eusebio put his money where his mouth was and proved for the third time in his career that he is the fastest shooter in the world by upsetting the defending champion Max Michel of Team Sig Sauer who had not lost a match all season, and holding off a strong challenge from Team Glock's Dave Sevigny. Though Eusebio won just one stage during the match, posting a new world record on Speed Option, he shot a consistently fast pace throughout all eight stages that put him in a position to win. With three stages left to shoot, and sitting in second place, Eusebio made his move and overtook Sevigny. He then expanded his advantage setting up a final stage scenario where the only way Eusebio was going to be beat was if he fell apart. That did not happen as Eusebio shot the second fastest time on the final stage of the match to end with a winning time of 80.27 seconds. Sevigny, who shot a custom built open Glock 17, posted his best Steel Challenge finish taking second in a time of 82.84 and proving along the way that the Glock platform can contend in a match dominated by the 1911. Earlier in the match Sevigny won the the Limited division title and placed second in the Open Rimfire division which, with his Open division finish, won him the 2010 Steel Master title. Finishing third in the Open division was Team Smith & Wesson's Jerry Miculek who again faced off against a field of semi-auto pistols with his Smith & Wesson open sight revolver and still managed to post a time of 83.88. Both Sevigny and Miculek took top honors on one stage each with Sevigny topping the field on Outer Limits and Miculek on Showdown. Taking fourth was the 2004 World Speed Shooting Champion Tatsuya Sakai of Japan who shot a time of 85.35. In the women's competition, Jessie Abbate of McDonough, Georgia took her third title of world's fastest female shooter with her wins in the Lady's Open Rimfire and Lady's Steel Master title-a combination of the Open, Limited and Rimfire events. "Winning both again was amazing, especially this year. It was a tough weekend for me and I really had to fight for it,"said Abbate who in 2009 won all three matches she entered and dominated the event but found this year's competition to be mentally challenging. "Sometimes your mental game isn't where it's supposed to be. Last year I felt like I couldn't make a mistake, and then this year I put a lot of pressure on myself to break the records that I had set and I wasn't seeing things the way I did last year, or something was just not the same, so I adjusted and worked around that." And work around it she did. Abbate started the match strong taking the Lady's Open Rimfire title by winning seven of the eight stages in the match, giving up the fastest time on Outer Limits to newcomer Sarah Irish of Dearborn, Michigan. Abbate's final time of 76.90 seconds outpaced the second place shooter Kay Miculek of Team Smith &Wesson by 11.60 seconds. Miculek, a Princeton, Louisiana, resident and seven time Women's World Speed Shooting Champion, finished second in 88.50 seconds. Third place, and the Junior Lady's title, went to Irish who finished 1.39 seconds behind Miculek in a time of 89.89 seconds. Then in the Limited event, Abbate fell to second behind the Smith & Wesson shooting team captain, Julie Golob of Glasgow, Montana, Abbate won five of the eight stages in the competition but gave up 4.83 seconds to Golob on the stage Outer Limits.