Aislin Jones

Aislin Jones (/æʃˈlɪn/ ash-LIN; born February 2000) is a women's skeet shooter from Australia. She won the Australian National Championship in January 2016, becoming the youngest woman ever to hold that title. She is the current Oceania Region Junior Women's Skeet Record holder.

Aislin Jones
Aislin Jones - ISSF World Cup Baku 2016
Personal information
Nationality Australia
BornFebruary 2000 (age 20)
Shepparton, Australia
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportSport shooter
Medal record
Women's shooting
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Championships
2017 BrisbaneSkeet
2018 Wagga WaggaSkeet
ISSF Junior World Cup
2018 SydneySkeet

Education

In 2018 Jones is completing her Victorian Certificate of Education at Nagle College in Bairnsdale, Victoria Australia.[1][2]

Career

Early and domestic

Jones developed an interest in shooting while following her father David Jones, around the Bairnsdale Field and Game clay target range from an early age.[3][4] She started shooting in 2012 and switched from simulated field to skeet later that year. Jones competed in her first Australian Clay Target Association (ACTA) national championships at the age of 13, held at Wagga Wagga in 2013.[5] The following year Jones won six medals at the ACTA national championships at Wagga Wagga and the National Women's Champion of Champions in the mixed 12 gauge/20 gauge event with a score of 99/100.[6]

In late 2014 Jones switched from American Skeet to ISSF skeet in order to achieve her Olympic and Commonwealth Games aspirations. At her first competitive ISSF skeet shoot in October 2014, she won the Victorian Ladies' Championship at Werribee Clay Target Club.[7]

International

In 2015 Jones competed in her first international competition, finishing 23rd in the junior world championships and 6th in the ISSF junior cup. In early 2016 she became the youngest winner of the Australian National Skeet Championship at the age of 15.[8][9]

Jones represented Australia in Women's Skeet at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, finishing in 17th place.[2] JONES was the second youngest Australian athlete,[8] and the youngest of the 390 shooting athletes from around the world.[10] At 16 years of age, she was also the youngest Australian shooter ever to compete at any Olympic Games.[11]

In October 2017 Jones broke the Oceania Women's Skeet, junior and senior records[12] and in January 2018, at the Australian Nationals in Echuca she won the Commonwealth championship, Australian Championship and High Gun.[13]

In March 2018 she won her first ISSF gold medal at the Junior World Cup in Sydney.[14][15]

Jones has been named in the Australian shooting team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games[16][17] and finished 6th, after finishing second in the qualifying round.[18]

Personal life

She lives in Lakes Entrance, in southeast Victoria.[19]

Awards
  • Gippsland Sports Academy Gippstar Award 2017.[20]
  • East Gippsland Shire Young Citizen of the Year 2018, for outstanding contribution to her sport.[1]

References
  1. "East Gippsland Shire announces Australia Day Award winners". eastgippsland.vic.gov.au. 23 January 2018. Archived from the original on 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  2. Talbot, Sam (July 2017). "Youth in Focus Aislin Jones". Australian Shooter. Last year Aislin represented Australia on the world's biggest stage and was the youngest individual athlete in the 2016 Olympic Games team the age of 16, finishing 17th in the women's skeet
  3. Harper, Tony (8 August 2016). "Rio Olympics 2016: Why shooter Aislin Jones chose Olympics over private school education". foxsports.com.au. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  4. "Long locks and two smoking barrels". gippslandia.com.au. 15 May 2017. Archived from the original on 6 April 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  5. "Aislin's hitting the mark". Bairnsdale Advetiser. Yeates Media. 13 May 2013. Lakes Entrance's Aislin Jones took up skeet shooting 14 months ago, and has made stunning progress. Such is her talent as a skeet shooter that she will next week head to Wagga Wagga, in southern NSW for the national skeet championships... "This is my first big competition and its pretty exciting and also a bit nerve racking because its the whole of Australia" Aislin, 13, said
  6. "Aislin continues cracking form". East Gippsland news. Yeates Media. 28 May 2014. Fourteen-year-old shooting sensation, Aislin Jones, has brought home a swag of six medals and a blue sash from the Australian Clay Target Association (ACTA) national shooting ground at Wagga Wagga, NSW last week. Aislin won 2014 ladies Champion of Champions on 99/100 in the mixed 12g/20g event, but also "B" grade, sub juniors (blue sash) and 28-gauge "B" grade.
  7. "Stunning start". East Gippsland News. Yeats Media. 22 October 2014. In superb conditions at the Werribee Clay Target Club on Saturday, Aislin Jones achieved something that few would have thought possible. In her first event shooing International Sport Shooting Federation (ISSF) skeet, she came home with the Victorian Ladies' Championship sash and was only two targets away from winning her grade in her first competition in the international version of her sport. In order to achieve her Olympic and Commonwealth Games aspirations she has had to switch disciplines from American skeet to ISSF skeet (also known as international skeet
  8. "Aislin Jones Fast Facts". olympics.com.au. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  9. King, Simon (18 April 2016). "Rio Olympics: Aislin Jones aiming high and on target for Games". The Australian. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  10. "Shooting sport is about to debut at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games". ISSF. 4 August 2016. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  11. "Rio Olympics 2016: Victorian teenager Aislin Jones youngest to shoot for Australia". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 April 2016. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  12. "Oceania Records". "SHOOTING BY" Shooting Portal. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  13. "Triple clean sweep for Jones". Bairnsdale Advertiser. Yeates Media. January 2018. Lakes Entrance shooter, Aislin Jones, has claimed a clean sweep of all three national titles up for grabs in ISSF women's skeet at this year's ACTA National ISSF Championships in Echuca. The Australian Commonwealth Games skeet shooting nominee for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in April has come away from the annual championships with the trifecta, taking the Commonwealth women's skeet championship, national women's skeet championship and overall women's high gun. The two championships were run over Monday and Tuesday of last week.
  14. "Aislin Jones grabs Australia's first gold in Sydney!". issf-sports.org. 27 March 2018. Archived from the original on 30 March 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  15. Allen, Greg (28 March 2018). "AISLIN JONES WINS THE ISSF JUNIOR WORLD CUP". trfm.com.au. Archived from the original on 30 March 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  16. "Young and old in Comm Games shooting team". sbs.com.au. 31 January 2018. Archived from the original on 10 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  17. Pavitt, Michael (4 February 2018). "Australia name diving, shooting and table tennis teams for Gold Coast 2018". insidethegames.biz. Archived from the original on 10 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  18. "Shooting: Shooting - Women's Skeet". bbc.com. 8 April 2018. Archived from the original on 8 April 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  19. Smith, Riahn (20 July 2016). "A sight for sure eyes". The Weekly Times. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  20. "Open Annual Gippstar Winners". sportgippsland.org.au. 2017. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
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