Here is all you need to know about age 15 Emely Jaeggi who becomes the youngster shooter in Olympics history
The 2024 Summer Olympics, an international multi-sport competition that will take place in France from July 26 to August 11, 2024, will primarily be held in Paris as the host city.
Many athletes from throughout the globe have secured their spots in the esteemed Paris Olympics 2024 in less than half a year. Meanwhile, another teenager has stunned the world with her stunning performance.
Emely Jaeggi became the youngest Olympic shooting sport athlete in history when she earned a quota berth for Paris 2024 after placing second in the women’s 50m rifle 3 places at the Final Olympic qualification in Rio de Janeiro.
Who is Emely Jaeggi youngest Paris Olympics shooter, bio, age, family and nationality
Emely Jaeggi of Switzerland 🇨🇭 wins Olympic quota with #Capapie in Women's 50m Rifle Three Positions at the ISSF Final Olympic Qualification in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. #ShootWithCapapie pic.twitter.com/x61Vd4JzGF
— Capapie Sports (@CapapieSports) April 22, 2024
Who is Emely Jaeggi?
Emely Jaeggi has now become the youngest shooter to win a Paris 2024 quota place. She was born on October 13, 2008 in Switzerland. She is 15 years old and has a sister named Vivien who is older than her and also an athelte.
At the Olympic Shooting Centre, she won the silver medal, trailing only by 0.3 points Norway’s 2023 World Cup Finalist Jeanette Hegg Duestad, who finished fourth in this event at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
She kept cool under pressure, matching her teammate’s score of 10.6 at the penultimate elimination round of this year’s ISSF World Cup in Cairo. Not much is known about the teenager however, she will be known soon to the world if her performance continues to be like this.
Meanwhile, Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar showed his strength on Friday during the second Olympic shooting trials at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad. He won both the 50-meter rifle 3-position event’s qualification round and final.
Winner of the Olympic quota Akhil Sheoran lost by 0.4 points when Aishwary, down by 0.3 points entering the 45-shot match, fired 10.6. Unsurprisingly, Aishwary, 23, shot 595 in qualification to secure his spot in the running for a trip to Paris; much in contrast from his 576 in the first trial.
The selection process would only examine the scores of the top three shooters. Furthermore, the Olympic flame sailed for France on the Belem on Saturday after leaving the Greek port of Piraeus and spending the night at the French embassy in Athens.
Dozens of people watched the 19th-century three-masted vessel, escorted by the Greek Navy’s trireme Olympias and 25 sailing boats, from behind fences off the port of Piraeus amid security reasons.