Aislin Jones

Aislin Jones made history in Rio as she became Australia’s youngest ever Olympic shooter (16 years and 179 days at the time of the opening ceremony) when she contested the skeet event at the 2016 Games. 

After showing initial potential in simulated field shooting, Aislin switched to skeet shooting in 2012. She competed in her first international competitions in 2015, contesting both the Junior World Championships (23rd) and the ISSF Junior Cup (sixth). She became the youngest woman to win the Australian National Skeet Championship in early 2016 at just 15 years of age and her strong form saw her win selection to her first Olympic Games. 

The youngest of all 422 Australian athletes in Rio, Aislin shot 63/75 in qualification to finish 17th.

In October 2017, Aislin broke the Oceania women's skeet junior and senior records and the following year, at the Australian nationals in Echuca, she won the Commonwealth Championship, Australian Championship and high gun. Later in 2018, she won her first ISSF gold medal at the Junior World Cup in Sydney. 

In 2019, Aislin became the first woman in the history of clay target shooting in Australia to win an overall championship at the ISSF National Championships in Brisbane. To win, she shot 121 from 125 and 118 from 125 for a combined 239/250. Taking out the AA national championship, women’s national championship and junior national championship in ISSF skeet at the same event, Aislin won six of the seven titles she contested in open, junior and women’s divisions.

After a couple of seasons disrupted by COIVD-19, Aislin recorded strong results internationally in 2023, before nailing down a quota spot for the Paris Olympics with gold at the Oceania Championships in Brisbane.

Aislin, ranked top 50 in the world, is completing a bachelor of commerce at Deakin University.