Jeanette Hegg Duestad (born 11 January 1999) is a Norwegian sport shooter. Her achievements include winning an individual gold medal in rifle shooting at the 2022 world championships, as well as team gold medals in 2022 and 2023.
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Nationality | Norwegian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tønsberg, Norway | 11 January 1999|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Nøtterø | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
editDuestad was born in Tønsberg on 11 January 1999.[1]
2021
editAt the 2021 European Shooting Championships she won an individual bronze medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions.[2] Further, she won a silver medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions team, along with Katrine Lund and Jenny Stene.[3]
She represented Norway at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, where she placed fourth in women's 10 metre air rifle.[1]
2022
editAt the 2022 European 25/50 m Events Championships, she won a gold medal in 50m rifle 3 positions mixed team, together with Jon-Hermann Hegg.[4]
She won an individual gold medal in 300 m rifle 3 positions at the 2022 ISSF World Shooting Championships, ahead of Sarina Hitz and Elin Ahlin.[5] She placed fourth in 300 m rifle prone, missing the bronze with a short margin. She won a gold medal in 300 m rifle 3 positions team, with team mates Katrine Lund and Jenny Vatne, defeating a Swiss team in the final. With the same team, she also won gold medal in 300 m rifle prone team.[6] She won a bronze medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions, behind winner Miao Wanru and silver medalist Jenny Stene.[7] On the final day of the championships she won her fourth gold medal, in 300 m rifle prone mixed team, together with Simon Claussen.[8]
2023
editAt the 2023 European 10 m Events Championships in Tallinn, her gold medal in 10 m air rifle was Norway's first in 10 meter since Anne Grethe Jeppesen's victory in 1981.[9] She also won the gold medal in 10 m air rifle team, with Jenny Stene and Katrine Lund, and she won the 10 m air rifle mixed team, teamed with Jon-Hermann Hegg.[9][10]
She was part of the Norwegian winning team in 50 m rifle (team match) at the 2023 European Games, along with Mari Bårdseng Løvseth and Jenny Stene.[11] She also competed in 50 m rifle (match) at the games, placing fifth.[12] At the same European Games she also won a silver medal in 10 m air rifle team, along with Milda Marina Haugen and Jenny Stene, after being defeated by Switzerland in the gold medal match.[13]
At the 2023 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Baku, she won a silver medal in 50 m rifle prone team, along with Mari Bårdseng Løvseth and Jenny Stene, closely behind the Swiss winning team.[14][15] She also won a silver medal in 300 m rifle prone team, along with Katrine Lund and Jenny Vatne.[16] She won a bronze medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions team, along with Jenny Stene and Mari Bårdseng Løvseth.[17] In the very last competition at the 2023 championships she won a gold medal in 300 m rifle 3 positions team, along with Katrine Lund and Jenny Vatne.[18]
Competing in the 2023 ISSF World Cup, she placed third in 10 meter air rifle at the world cup final in Doha in November.[19]
2024
editIn May 2024 Duestad placed fourth in 50 metre rifle match at the 2024 European Championships 25m & 50m events in Osijek, and won a team silver medal with the Norwegian team (behind Switzerland), with team mates Jenny Stene and Mari Bårdseng Løvseth.[20]
She was selected to represent Norway at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[21] Her first competition in the Olympics was in mixed air rifle team with Jon-Hermann Hegg, where they placed fifth, missing the final by a hair (0.1 points).[22] She qualified for the final in Women's 50 metre rifle three positions,[23] and placed fourth in the final.[24]
References
edit- ^ a b "Jeanette Hegg Duestad". olympedia.org. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
- ^ "Helmatch-bronse til Jeanette Hegg Duestad – lagsølv til gutta". skyting.no (in Norwegian). 30 May 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ Rønning, Dag (31 May 2021). "Lagsølv på helmatch til riflejentene – bronse i mix-lag til Jenny og Simon". skyting.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ "European Championship 25/50m Wroclaw. 50m RIFLE 3 POSITIONS MIXED TEAM (FRI 16 SEP 2022)". results.sius.com. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
- ^ "VM-gull på 300m til Jeanette Hegg Duestad". skyting.no (in Norwegian). 25 October 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ "Medaljedryss til Norge på 300m i VM". skyting.no (in Norwegian). 27 October 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ "Sølv og bronsemedalje til Norge i VM i Kairo". skyting.no (in Norwegian). 21 October 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ "VM i Kairo 2022 avsluttet med norske gullmedaljer". skyting.no (in Norwegian). 28 October 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ a b Rønning, Dag (13 March 2023). "Historiske 3 gull til Jeanette". skyting.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- ^ "Duestad med gull-hattrick i EM – dramatisk norsk lagseier i luftrifle". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 12 March 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- ^ "Skyting: Suverent laggull i Europalekene". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 29 June 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ "Skyting: Stene slo hjemmefavoritten og tok Norges første gull i European Games". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 26 June 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ "Shooting. 10m air rifle women's team. Gold medal match" (PDF). results.european-games.com. 24 June 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ^ "Norsk VM-sølv i skyting etter ellevilt drama – gullet glapp med millimetermargin". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 23 August 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
- ^ Philip Barker (23 August 2023). "More Chinese gold as Azerbaijan win first medal at ISSF World Championships". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media company. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ "VM i skyting: Norge tok gull og sølv i lagkonkurransen på 300 meter rifle". abcnyheter.no (in Norwegian). 27 August 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ "7. plass til Jenny Stene og 2 x lagbronse til Norge i 50m match". skyting.no (in Norwegian). 21 August 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ "To gull til Katrine Lund i VM i skyting". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 28 August 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ^ "Historisk medalje til Hegg Duestad". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 22 November 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
- ^ "Duestad hjalp kvinnene til lagsølv i skyte-EM – ble nummer fire individuelt i 50 m match". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 28 May 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ "16 utøvere tatt ut i tredje uttak til OL i Paris" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Olympiatoppen. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ Fange, Per Øyvind; Solbakken, Hans; Svarstad, Anne (27 July 2024). "OL-drama: Tapte med 0,1 poeng i sluttsekundene". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Hegg Duestad til OL-finale etter elendig start". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 1 August 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ Johansen, Henrik Hegg; Solbakken, Hans; Svarstad, Anne (2 August 2024). "I tårer etter OL-nedtur: – Nå er det helt tomt". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2 August 2024.
External links
edit- Jeanette Hegg Duestad at the International Shooting Sport Federation
- Jeanette Hegg Duestad at Olympics.com
- Jeanette Hegg Duestad at Team Norway (in Norwegian)
- Profile at Norges Skytterforbund (in Norwegian)