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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 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.
Girard studied sport science in Lille, [2] and is a student of Life Sciences at Sorbonne University in Paris. [3]
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]
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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.
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.
