Amy Baserga (born 29 September 2000) is a Swiss

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and shooting sports, rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into sh ...

. She competed in the

2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...

Career

Baserga was a successful junior competitor in biathlon, winning six medals at the

Biathlon Junior World Championships Biathlon Junior World Championships were first held in 1967 for men and in 1984 for women. According to the International Biathlon Union rules, biathletes qualify as Junior if they turn 20, 21 or 22 during the season from November to October, they ...

. She competed in four

biathlon The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not tim ...

events at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She was part of the Swiss team in the mixed relay, placing 8th out of 20 teams. She placed 69th out of 89 competitors in the

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event, 54th out of 89 competitors in the sprint, and 39th out of 60 competitors in the pursuit.

Personal life

Baserga also participated in

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ski jumping Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the final ...

, and

cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

before starting biathlon after her older brother Tim discovered the sport in 2007.

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* * * 2000 births Living people Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics Swiss female biathletes Olympic biathletes for Switzerland People from Einsiedeln Sportspeople from Zürich Sportspeople from the canton of Schwyz {{Switzerland-biathlon-bio-stub