Alethea Sedgman

Sedgman is a sport shooter, specialising in the rifle.^[2][6] She is a member of the Horsham Smallbore Club and has been coached by Petr Kůrka since 2009.^[2] She has a shooting scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport.^[2] She became a senior shooter in 2009.^[7] She represented Australia at the 2010 World Championship in Munich.^[2]

Sedgman competed at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she earned a gold medal^{[2][3][4][5][8][9][7]} as a sixteen-year-old^[4][5] in the women's 50m rifle three position event.^[2][10][11] Her gold was Australia's first in shooting at the 2010 Games.^[7] She won gold with a score of 676.0 points.^[7]

Sedgman finished 2nd in the three position and 4th in the prone 10 metres air rifle at the 2011 Oceania Championships in Sydney, Australia.^[2] She finished 23rd and 24th in the junior 10 metres air rifle events at the 2012 Plzeň Grand Prix in Plzeň, Czech Republic.^[2] At the 2012 Meyton Cup in Tirol, Austria, she finished 4th and 18th in the junior 10 metres rifle events.^[2] She finished 42nd in the junior 10 metres air rifle at the 2012 Munich IWK in Munich Germany.^[2] In the 2012 Australia Cup 1 she finished 2nd in the 10 metres air rifle at Event 2 in Adelaide, Australia having placed 1st in the same event and 3rd in the three positions at Event 1, also in Adelaide.^[2] In the 2012 Australia Cup 2 Sedgman recorded finishes of 2nd in the 10 metres air rifle and 4th in the three positions at Event 1 in Sydney and followed this by finishing 2nd in the 10 metres at Event 2.^[2]

Sedgman was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in shooting in the 10 metres air rifle event.^{[2][12][8][9][13][6][14]} She was eighteen years old at the Games.^[2][3][8]

Australia had one final quota place to give to a shooter for the Olympics and it came down a choice between Gulvin and Sedgman. Sedgman was selected ahead of her boyfriend as Australian International Shooting opted to send a female competitor.^{[3][12][8][9][13]}

• Alethea Sedgman at the International Shooting Sport Federation
• Alethea Sedgman at the Australian Olympic Committee
• Alethea Sedgman at Olympics.com
• Alethea Sedgman at Olympedia
• Alethea Sedgman at Commonwealth Games Australia
• Alethea Sedgman at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games (archived)