Chiara Leone, the Olympic champion in Paris, will miss the World Championships in Cairo in November for sporting reasons. Nina Christen, the Olympic champion from Tokyo, and the Jäggi sisters are given preference.
07.10.2025, 10:30
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"We had a luxury problem: one Olympic champion against the other," emphasized Joël Strübi, Head of Elite Sports, in the communiqué on the World Championships line-up. "The decision was really very close." In the end, the decisive factor was that Nina Christen had performed consistently throughout the year. Chiara Leone set a strong example with her 4th place in the three-position event at the European Championships in Châteauroux, "but she lacked consistency throughout the season". According to Strübi, Nina's chances of a top place are currently higher: "It's unusual for an Olympic champion to stay at home - but that's the brutal thing: there are no guarantees. The title was a year ago - but that doesn't save you if your form isn't right."
In the supreme discipline of shooting, the three-position match with the small bore rifle, the Swiss women are world class. Vivien and Emely Jäggi, the 19- and 17-year-olds from Niederbuchsiten, are currently even more accurate than the two Olympic champions from the cantons of Aargau and Nidwalden. Emely Jäggi, who was only narrowly beaten by Chiara Leone in the Olympic selection a year ago, is currently number 5 in the world rankings. And her older sister Vivien Jäggi has already become Junior World Champion and Junior European Champion in the three-position.
Chiara Leone has been splashing out on training this year. "Before Paris, I had really planned my training very strictly. However, I don't think I can simply copy this program again and be successful again," she told Blick two months ago. "I have the feeling that I need to change something. At the moment I'm still figuring out which path I actually want to take in the next few years."
In September, this path led her to Australia, where she spent three weeks training in Brisbane at the invitation of a colleague - often in very windy conditions, which you rarely find in Switzerland.
