Marcus Klemp and Nathalia Tobar Topped Air Pistol Champions at 2025 USA Capturing Nationals
By Brittany Nelson, USAS Public Relations & Communications Supervisor
ANNISTON AL, (June 19, 2025) – After two thrilling finals Marcus Klemp and Nathalia Tobar claimed the boys’s and ladies’s air pistol champion titles June 16 on the 2025 USA Capturing Nationwide Championships in Anniston, Alabama, hosted by the Civilian Marksmanship Program.
Olympians, Paralympians, and newcomers shot side-by-side, highlighting the inclusive and aggressive spirit of the capturing sports activities group. After two days of qualification relays, the highest eight males and prime eight girls superior to their respective finals, every vying for a spot on the rostrum.
Klemp delivered a dominant efficiency, qualifying for each the boys’s and junior males’s finals and capturing gold in every, securing two nationwide champion titles in a single day. Klemp, a pistol athlete at The Ohio State College, has had a really profitable 2025 season up to now. He was nominated to the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games Air Pistol Staff based mostly on his general combination rating on the 2025 USA Capturing Junior Olympic Championships. He additionally captured silver in males’s air pistol on the competitors.
Klemp might be headed with to Asunción, Paraguay, this August to signify Staff USA in Males’s 10m Air Pistol alongside teammate Nathan Lim. Klemp, of Missoula, Montana, is not any stranger to the worldwide capturing scene. He has competed on the Worldwide Capturing Sports activities Federation (ISSF) Junior World Championships in 2023 and 2024.
Nathalia Tobar earned her nationwide champion title in Ladies’s 10m Air Pistol after an exciting remaining, with Suman Sanghera taking silver and Olivia Hur claiming bronze. She earned bronze at nationals in 2024 and returned this 12 months to say the gold. Tobar’s air pistol recreation has been steadily bettering as her 2025 championship title comes simply months after she broke the nationwide file.
Tobar’s capturing profession and love for the game is rooted in her household’s legacy. Her father is a 4 time Olympian and world champion, and her brother is a Tokyo 2020 Olympian. Tobar, a local of Cali, Colombia, provides this 12 months’s gold to her already in depth medal assortment.
Sanghera, who took silver within the open girls’s remaining, went on to say the Junior Ladies’s 10m Air Pistol Nationwide Champion title. The Nice Falls, Virginia, native was additionally nominated to the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games Air Pistol Staff based mostly on her general combination rating on the 2025 USA Capturing Junior Olympic Championships. Sanghera’s success exceeds simply stateside competitions. She lately earned two medals on the 2025 ISSF Junior Championships of the Americas and has represented Staff USA at quite a few worldwide competitions.
The 2025 Nationwide Championships featured a powerful turnout of Paralympic air pistol athletes. Two finals have been held, one within the Ladies’s P2 SH1 occasion and one within the Males’s P1 SH1 occasion.
Leah Groggett, of San Antonio, Texas, topped the rostrum in Ladies’s P2. Michael Tagliapietra, a Rio 2016 Paralympian from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, earned gold in Males’s P1. See all Paralympic outcomes from the 2025 Nationwide Championships right here.
Medals have been additionally awarded for U18, U15, senior, and worldwide classes. See all outcomes from the 2025 competitors right here. View photographs from the competitors right here.
ELEY, Axil, and Walther generously contributed podium prizes in help of our top-performing athletes.
USA Capturing extends a particular due to our sponsors and companions together with The NRA Basis, Hillsdale School, The Worldwide Order of T. Roosevelt, The Hal & Jean Glassen Basis, Safari Membership Worldwide, MidwayUSA Basis, The Civilian Marksmanship Program, ELEY, and Axil.
