Jason Parker (born June 27, 1974) is an American sport shooter, one of the world's leading

10 m Air Rifle 10 metre air rifle (N.B. For "Meter" in this article – read "Metre") is an International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) shooting event, shot at a bullseye target over a distance of using a calibre air rifle with a maximum weight of . It ...

shooters, although he has also had some successes in

Three positions International Rifle events that occur in three positions are conducted with an equal number of shots fired from the Kneeling, Prone and Standing positions, although the order has changed over the years. Each of the three positions shot during the ...

competitions. He has never won an Olympic medal, but he won the Air Rifle event at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships. He has also held the final world record in this event on several occasions. He lost it to

Zhu Qinan Zhu Qinan (; born November 15, 1984, in Wenzhou, Zhejiang) is a male Chinese sport shooter. He won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event and a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Men's 10 m ...

of China at the 2004 Olympics, but at an

ISSF World Cup The ISSF World Cup was introduced by the International Shooting Sport Federation in 1986 to provide a homogeneous system for qualification to the Olympic shooting competitions. It still is carried out in the Olympic shooting events, with four comp ...

competition the following spring he equalled Zhu's 702.7 points, and they shared the world record until October 2006. In addition to air rifle competition, Jason Parker, who is a SFC in the United States Army, also has participated in rifle shoots at 300m, as in the case of the three position standard rifle slow fire event in Conseil International du Sport Militaire shooting competition in Switzerland in 2008, in which he scored a silver medal. Jason Parker, a graduate of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, was a member of Xavier's Rifle team from 1992–1996. Parker earned seven All-American citations as a member of the Xavier rifle team, the most for any shooter in school history. Parker, who is now a member of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, was an All-American in smallbore rifle shooting as a freshman in 1993, then earned honors for both smallbore and air rifle in his final three seasons. Parker was a member of the team that placed first in air rifle in the 1996 NCAA Championship. In individual NCAA competition, Parker placed second in smallbore in 1993, and in air rifle he placed third in 1994, fourth in 1995 and fifth in 1996. On the international level Parker was a member of the 1998 Munich World Cup Air Rifle Championship Team. While there he won a gold medal and set two new world records. Parker scored a world-record 700.6 points to defeat Slovenia's Rajmond Debevec and win his event. Also, Parker's qualifying score of 598 out of 600 points set a new world mark. Following his performance in Munich, Parker was named 1998 USA Shooting Male Rifle Shooter of the Year and was also featured in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd". Parker followed the honor up by winning a gold medal at the 1999 Masters European Air Rifle Championship. The U.S. Olympic Committee named Parker Shooter of the Year in 1999. Parker also participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He posted the third best qualifying score in Men's 10 meter air rifle before placing fifth in the finals, falling .7 points short of the bronze medal.

References

External links

Parker's profile at ISSF NEWS

International Sport Shooting Federation

Athlete Biography
at beijing2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Parker, Jason 1974 births Living people American male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2007 Pan American Games Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2011 Pan American Games Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters for the United States Pan American Games medalists in shooting Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games