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| Andrew Hahn, who fired for the Humboldt, South Dakota, Sharpshooters club team, won the overall individual championship in Junior Olympic Sporter class competition. |
The 2003 Junior Olympic Championship was the second of a “triad” of junior championships staged at Wilmington, North Carolina’s Ashley High School during the last two weeks of June. The Junior Olympics began with sporter class competition and concluded the following week with its precision air rifle phase.
A total of 33 state championship teams qualified for the national sporter class finals, 12 teams in Club Team category and 21 in the Scholastic Team category where teams must represent high schools or JROTC units.
The Homestead 4-H Shooting Club from Beatrice, Nebraska fired the highest overall team score to win the Club Team competition with their 4301 total. This was also the third major team championship that the Homestead team won in Wilmington. They started by winning the International BB Gun Championship team title. They followed that by winning the sporter team gold medal in the Daisy Air Rifle Championship and made it three in a row by taking the Junior Olympic Sporter title.
Clinton High School JROTC from Clinton, South Carolina fired a 4245 team total that was the second highest team overall score and that won the Scholastic Team championship.
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| Three-position air rifle competition includes firing in prone, standing and kneeling positions with all shooters firing 3x20 courses of fire on two consecutive days. The top eight individuals conclude their competition with a 10-shot final on the second day that is fired in the standing position. Overall individual champion Andrew Hahn of Humboldt, South Dakota is shown here firing in the kneeling position. |
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| The Homestead 4-H Shooting Sports Club from Nebraska made it three major national team titles in a row when they won the Junior Olympic Sporter Club Team title. Team members (l. to r.) Clint Sejkora, Jace Bures, Michaela Jochum and Nathan Jochum are shown here firing in the kneeling position. |
Individual Junior Olympic Sporter competition was extremely close. Andrew Hahn, who represented the Humboldt, South Dakota, Sharpshooters earned his victory after going into the final with a three-point lead over Nathan Jochum of the Homestead 4-H Shooting Club. He increased his final victory margin to six points in the final to end with a 1179 total to Jochum’s 1173.
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| For the first time since the Junior Olympic Three-Position Air Rifle Championship began in 2000, firing was conducted on paper, not electronic, targets. A large volunteer scoring crew, including these scorers from the National Guard Marksmanship Training Center in North Little Rock, Arkansas, made the rapid production of accurate results during the competition possible. |
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