Jeanette Hegg Duestad
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Nationality | Norwegian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 11 January 1999 Tønsberg, Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Nøtterø | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jeanette Hegg Duestad (born 11 January 1999) is a Norwegian sport shooter. Her achievements include winning an individual gold medal in rifle shooting at the 2022 world championships, as well as team gold medals in 2022 and 2023.
Biography
Duestad was born in Tønsberg on 11 January 1999.
2021
At the 2021 European Shooting Championships she won an individual bronze medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions. Further, she won a silver medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions team, along with Katrine Lund and Jenny Stene.
She represented Norway at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, where she placed fourth in women's 10 metre air rifle.
2022
At the 2022 European 25/50 m Events Championships, she won a gold medal in 50m rifle 3 positions mixed team, together with Jon-Hermann Hegg.
She won an individual gold medal in 300 m rifle 3 positions at the 2022 ISSF World Shooting Championships, ahead of Sarina Hitz and Elin Ahlin. She placed fourth in 300 m rifle prone, missing the bronze with a short margin. She won a gold medal in 300 m rifle 3 positions team, with team mates Katrine Lund and Jenny Vatne, defeating a Swiss team in the final. With the same team, she also won gold medal in 300 m rifle prone team. She won a bronze medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions, behind winner Miao Wanru and silver medalist Jenny Stene. On the final day of the championships she won her fourth gold medal, in 300 m rifle prone mixed team, together with Simon Claussen.
2023
At the 2023 European 10 m Events Championships in Tallinn, her gold medal in 10 m air rifle was Norway's first in 10 meter since Anne Grethe Jeppesen's victory in 1981. She also won the gold medal in 10 m air rifle team, with Jenny Stene and Katrine Lund, and she won the 10 m air rifle mixed team, teamed with Jon-Hermann Hegg.
She was part of the Norwegian winning team in 50 m rifle (team match) at the 2023 European Games, along with Mari Bårdseng Løvseth and Jenny Stene. She also competed in 50 m rifle (match) at the games, placing fifth. At the same European Games she also won a silver medal in 10 m air rifle team, along with Milda Marina Haugen and Jenny Stene, after being defeated by Switzerland in the gold medal match.
At the 2023 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Baku, she won a silver medal in 50 m rifle prone team, along with Mari Bårdseng Løvseth and Jenny Stene, closely behind the Swiss winning team. She also won a silver medal in 300 m rifle prone team, along with Katrine Lund and Jenny Vatne. She won a bronze medal in 50 m rifle 3 positions team, along with Jenny Stene and Mari Bårdseng Løvseth. In the very last competition at the 2023 championships she won a gold medal in 300 m rifle 3 positions team, along with Katrine Lund and Jenny Vatne.
Competing in the 2023 ISSF World Cup, she placed third in 10 meter air rifle at the world cup final in Doha in November.