Agathe Girard
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| Birth name | Agathe Cecile Camille Girard | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | France | |||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | French | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 23, 2001 | |||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Blois | |||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Sport Shooter, Student | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country | France | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||
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| Club | ADA Blois | |||||||||||||||||
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Agathe Cecile Camille Girard (born 23 February 2001) is a target shooter from France.[1] She has won bronze at two ISSF World Championships.
Personal Life
[edit]Girard studied sport science in Lille,[2] and is a student of Life Sciences at Sorbonne University in Paris.[3]
Sporting career
[edit]Agathe has been active in international shooting since 2018. She was selected to represent France at the ISSF Junior World Cups in Suhl in 2018 and 2019.[1][2]
In 2021 she was selected for the ISSF Junior World Championships in Lima, where she won a Bronze medal in the 10m Air Rifle Team event.[4]
In 2022 she won silver in the 50m Three Position Rifle event at the French 50 metre Championships.[5] She went on to become French Champion in 300m Prone Rifle.[6]
This performance earned her selection for the 2023 ISSF World Shooting Championships, winning an individual Bronze medal in the 300m Prone Rifle.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "ISSF Athletes - Agathe Cecile Camille Girard". issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ a b "Tir. Deux podiums mondiaux pour la Blésoise Agathe Girard". La Nouvelle Republique (in French). 27 July 2019. Archived from the original on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Agathe Girard". www.sorbonne-universite.fr (in French). Sorbonne Université. 24 January 2024. Archived from the original on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
Étudiante en sciences de la vie à Sorbonne Université, Agathe Girard pratique le tir à la carabine à haut niveau. Elle nous révèle comment elle jongle entre exigences académiques et entraînements intensifs, tout en gardant dans son viseur les Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024.
- ^ "10m AIR RIFLE TEAM WOMEN JUNIOR - BRONZE MEDAL MATCH" (PDF). International Shooting Sport Federation. 2 October 2021. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Tir : Agathe Girard (ADA Blois) vice-championne de France à 50 m". La Nouvelle Republique (in French). 25 July 2022. Archived from the original on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Tir : la Blésoise Agathe Girard championne de France". La Nouvelle Republique (in French). 12 July 2022. Archived from the original on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "53RD ISSF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - RESULTS 300m RIFLE PRONE WOMEN" (PDF). International Shooting Sport Federation. 27 August 2023. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ Philip Barker (27 August 2023). "Legendary Slovenian wins gold at 60 at ISSF Shooting World Championships". Inside the Games. Baku: Dunsar Media Company. Archived from the original on 7 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
In the women's competition, Karolina Romanczyk of Poland won her first World Championship gold with a score of 593, a margin of one point more than Silvia Guignard Schnyder of Switzerland. Agathe Cecile Girard of France took bronze.