Martina Lindsay Veloso (born October 27, 1999, in

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) is a Singaporean sports shooter. She won the gold medal in the

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in the 10 meters Air Rifle Women event and thus becoming the youngest ISSF shooter in getting one. She has also won the silver medal in

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...

. She was named Sportsgirl of the Year for 2015 and Sportswoman of the Year for 2019.

Early life and education

Veloso was born to engineer, Melvin Veloso and mother Loressa, who emigrated from the Philippines to Singapore in the 1990s. She has four siblings. Veloso studied at Nanyang Polytechnic.

Career

Veloso participated in the XX Commonwealth Games in

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where she qualified second, with 414.9 points, earning a chance to compete in the finals. In the final she ended up placing fifth, with 143.4 points. She has won the gold medal in the

that took place in

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, achievement that made her the youngest medallist in the history of ISSF. To earn the gold medal she scored 206.9 points beating the Olympic champion Katerina Emmons. Veloso was the youngest shooting competitor in

, she was only fourteen years old. In the Girls' 10m Air Rifle competition she won the silver medal. She qualified fourth by getting 415,7 points. In the finals, she shot 207.2 to earn the silver medal. In 2015, at the 2015 ISSF Junior Cup held at Suhl,

, she won the bronze medal in 10m Air Rifle Women Junior Competition, and the silver medal in 10m Air Rifle Women Junior Team competition. In 2017, she won gold medal in Women's 10m Air Rifle at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur. In 2018, at the XXI Commonwealth Games held at

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, she won gold medal in Women's 10m Air Rifle after had a shoot-off with

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, winning the medal in record breaking fashion. She followed it up by breaking another Games Record en route to winning the gold medal in the Women's 50m Air Rifle Prone, scoring 621 points, bettering the previous Games Record of 620.7.

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