Jason Parker (sport shooter)
Jason Parker (born June 27, 1974) is an American sport shooter, one of the world's leading 10 m Air Rifle shooters, although he has also had some successes in Three positions 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 of China at the 2004 Olympics, but at an ISSF World Cup 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.