Nationality Singapore Weight 55 kg (121 lb) Event(s) 10 m air rifle (AR40) | Height 1,60 m Sport Shooting | |
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Born 27 October 1999 (age 17) ( 1999-10-27 ) Singapore, Singapore | ||
Shooting jasmine ser martina veloso and cheng jian huan 17th asian games incheon 2014
Martina Lindsay Veloso (born October 27, 1999 in Singapore) is a Singaporean sport shooter. She won the gold medal in the 2014 ISSF World Cup 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.
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Veloso participated in the XX Commonweatlh Games celebrated in Glasgow, Scotland where she classificated second, with 414.9 points, earning a chance to compete in the finals. In the olympic final she ended placing fifth, with 143.4 points.
She has won the golden medal in the 2014 ISSF World Cup that took place in Munich, Germany, 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 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, she was only fourteen years. In the Girls' 10m Air Rifle competition she won the silver medal. She classified in the fourth place by getting 415,7 points. In the finals she shooted 207.2 to earn the silver medal.
In 2015, at the 2015 ISSF Junior Cup held at Suhl, Germany, she won the bronze medal in 10m Air Rifle Women Junior Competition, and the silver medal in 10m Air Rifle Women Junior Team competition.
