The Swiss women deliver another top result in the three-position match over 50 m with the small bore rifle, the supreme discipline in shooting sports. Emely Jäggi wins World Championship silver in Cairo.
12.11.2025, 12:16
12.11.2025, 13:13
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With 465.3 points and 0.5 points behind, the 17-year-old was only beaten by the favorite Jeanette Hegg Duestad from Norway. Emely Jäggi was the youngest of the eight finalists and left her sister Vivien, who is two years older, behind her, who had to make do with fourth place.
"Together with my sister in the World Championship final! It made it easier for me to know that she was next to me. That gave me power," said the Swiss in an interview with the organizer. It often happens that the Jäggi sisters are in the final together. This was also the case this summer at the European Junior Championships in Châteauroux. Back then, 19-year-old Vivien had the better end for herself and even won gold.
Emely and Vivien Jäggi were tied for a long time in the final in Cairo and alternated in 3rd and 4th place. Vivien then let up, while Emely even took the lead for a while. Vivien Jäggi was still able to avoid 5th place in the standing start, in which the last-placed shooters are successively eliminated from the competition, but bronze was out of reach. And when only Emely Jäggi and Jeanette Hegg Duestad were left in the competition, the Solothurn native was too far behind to have a realistic chance of taking gold.
Olympic champion also close to a ticket to the final
Nina Christen, the Olympic champion from Tokyo 2021, missed the final of the top 8 by one point in eleventh place. The Nidwalden native scored 588 points, the cut was made at 589. The Jäggi sisters had finished third and fourth in the qualification with 592 points, Jeannette Hegg Duestad had already been the best (595).
The Swiss women are very well represented among the world's best in the three-position match. Chiara Leone, the Olympic champion from Paris 2024, missed out on selection for the World Championships despite coming fourth at the European Championships three and a half months ago. Emely Jäggi also knows that the selections for the major event can be tight in the Swiss team. A year ago, she only just missed out on an Olympic starting place.
Third medal
At the World Championships in Cairo, Emely Jäggi won the third medal for Switzerland, albeit the first in an Olympic discipline. On Thursday, the Swiss men and women can go one better with the small bore rifle. Medal sets will be awarded in the non-Olympic prone shooting.
