Aislin Jones ( ; born February 2000) is a women's

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from

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. She won the Australian National Championship in January 2016, becoming the youngest woman ever to hold that title. She is the current Oceania Region Junior Women's Skeet Record holder.

Education

In 2018 Jones is completing her

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Bairnsdale Bairnsdale () ( Ganai: ''Wy-yung'') is a city in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia in a region traditionally owned by the Tatungalung clan of the Gunaikurnai people. The estimated population of Bairnsdale urban area was 15,411 at Ju ...

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Career

Early and domestic

Jones developed an interest in shooting while following her father David Jones, around the Bairnsdale Field and Game clay target range from an early age. She started shooting in 2012 and switched from simulated field to

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later that year. Jones competed in her first Australian Clay Target Association (ACTA) national championships at the age of 13, held at

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in 2013. The following year Jones won six medals at the ACTA national championships at

and the National Women's Champion of Champions in the mixed 12 gauge/20 gauge event with a score of 99/100. In late 2014 Jones switched from American Skeet to ISSF skeet in order to achieve her

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and

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aspirations. At her first competitive ISSF skeet shoot in October 2014, she won the Victorian Ladies' Championship at

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Clay Target Club.

International

In 2015 Jones competed in her first international competition, finishing 23rd in the junior world championships and 6th in the ISSF junior cup. In early 2016 she became the youngest winner of the Australian National Skeet Championship at the age of 15. Jones represented Australia in Women's Skeet at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, finishing in 17th place. JONES was the second youngest Australian athlete, and the youngest of the 390 shooting athletes from around the world. At 16 years of age, she was also the youngest Australian shooter ever to compete at any Olympic Games. In October 2017 Jones broke the Oceania Women's Skeet, junior and senior records and in January 2018, at the Australian Nationals in Echuca she won the Commonwealth championship, Australian Championship and High Gun. In March 2018 she won her first ISSF gold medal at the Junior World Cup in Sydney. Jones has been named in the Australian shooting team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games and finished 6th, after finishing second in the qualifying round.

Personal life

She lives in

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, in southeast Victoria.

Awards

* Gippsland Sports Academy Gippstar Award 2017. *

East Gippsland Shire The Shire of East Gippsland is a local government area in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, located in the eastern part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 46,818. It includes the towns of Bairnsdale, Benambr ...

Young Citizen of the Year 2018, for outstanding contribution to her sport.

References

External links

* of TeamAislin.com * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Aislin Skeet shooters Australian female sport shooters 2000 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters of Australia 21st-century Australian women