NATIMUK shooter Alethea Sedgman may not be bringing home a medal from the 2012 London Olympic Games, but the teenager has done the Wimmera proud.
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Sedgman, 18, competed in the women's 10-metre air rifle event on the opening day of competition, Saturday night Australian time.
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She finished 52nd with a score of 387.
"I wanted to shoot a PB and I didn't, but I'm pretty satisfied," Sedgman said.
"I could have let the nerves get to me but I didn't."
Sedgman would have needed a personal best score to qualify for the final, which was won by China's Yi Siling.
Her father Iain Sedgman spoke to the Wimmera Mail-Times from London, where he and wife Connie watched their daughter compete.
"I am so proud my daughter made it here," he said. "I thought Alethea went very well under incredible pressure."
Many Wimmera residents posted their congratulations to the teen on the Wimmera Mail-Times' Facebook page after the event.
"Awesome effort, a great start to her long career," Paula Hogart wrote.
"A 52nd out of the entire population of the world, not a bad effort," Sarah Scott wrote.
Sedgman had a bad start to her Olympic debut, sleeping through her alarm and almost missing the team bus to the event.
Her Games campaign is now over.
She was a chance to compete in the women's 50-metre three position event but has not been included in the final field.
IAIN Sedgman shares his experience of watching his daughter compete at the Olympic Games on page 39.
