Amelia Fournel

{{short description|Argentine sport shooter}}

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| name = Amelia Fournel

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| fullname = Amelia Rosa Fournel

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| nationality = {{ARG}}

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1977}}

| birth_place = Santa Fe, Argentina

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| height = 1.57 m

| weight = 57 kg

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| sport = Shooting

| event = 10 m air rifle (AR40)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)

| club = Tiro Federal Santa Fé

| coach = Julio Escalante
Claudio Fournel

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{{MedalSport | Women's shooting}}

{{MedalCountry|{{ARG}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}

{{MedalSilver | 1995 Mar del Plata | AR40 }}

{{MedalSilver | 2015 Toronto | STR3X20 }}

{{MedalBronze | 1999 Winnipeg | AR40 }}

{{MedalBronze | 2003 Santo Domingo | AR40 }}

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Amelia Rosa Fournel (born 1977 in Santa Fe) is an Argentine sport shooter.{{cite Sports-Reference|title=Amelia Fournel|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fo/amelia-fournel-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025056/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fo/amelia-fournel-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2020|accessdate=15 July 2015}} She produced a career tally of five medals, including four (two silver and two bronze) from the Pan American Games, and was selected to compete for Argentina in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000).{{cite web|title=ISSF Profile – Amelia Fournel|url=http://www.issf-sports.org/shooters/shooter.ashx?personissfid=SHARGW2002197701|publisher=ISSF|accessdate=18 October 2014}} Having pursued the sport since the age of fifteen, Fournel trained full-time for the Santa Fe Shooting Federation ({{langx|es|Tiro Federal Santa Fe}}) in her native Santa Fe, under her personal coach and brother Claudio Fournel.{{cite news|first=Ariel|last=Balderrama|title=El Tiro local tuvo su certamen anual|trans-title=Local shooters had their annual competition|language=es|url=http://www.sunchaleshoy.com.ar/2007/10/17/el-tiro-local-tuvo-su-certamen-anual/|publisher=Sunchales Hoy|date=17 October 2007|accessdate=15 July 2015}}

Fournel's Olympic debut came at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where she scored 392 points to finish in a thirteenth-place tie with four other shooters in the 10 m air rifle, narrowly missing out the final round by just a single-point gap.{{cite web|title=Atlanta 1996: Shooting – Women's 10m Air Rifle|url=http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v3p2.pdf|work=Atlanta 1996|publisher=LA84 Foundation|page=119|accessdate=29 March 2015}}

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Fournel qualified for her second Argentine squad in rifle shooting, by having registered a minimum Olympic qualifying standard of 388 and finishing third from the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.{{cite news|title=Fournel se llevó bronce|trans-title=Fournel wins the bronze|language=es|url=http://old.ole.com.ar/diario/1999/07/31/r-02804e.htm|publisher=Olé|date=31 July 1999|accessdate=15 July 2015}} In the 10 m air rifle, Fournel could not improve her previous Olympic feat in the qualifying stage, as she logged a dismal score of 390 out of 400 that ended her up in a twenty-eighth place tie with three other shooters.{{cite web|title=Sydney 2000: Shooting – Women's 10m Air Rifle|url=http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sh/SHresults.pdf|work=Sydney 2000|publisher=LA84 Foundation|pages=78–80|accessdate=29 March 2015}}{{cite news|title=Nancy Johnson wins first gold of Sydney Games|url=http://www.canoe.com/2000GamesShooting/sep16_joh.html|publisher=Canoe.ca|date=16 September 2000|accessdate=13 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713133636/http://www.canoe.com/2000GamesShooting/sep16_joh.html|archive-date=2015-07-13|url-status=dead}} In her second event, 50 m rifle 3 positions, Fournel fired 188 in the prone and 177 each in both standing and kneeling to accumulate an overall record of 542 points, leaving her towards the bottom of the leaderboard in the penultimate position out of forty-two prospective shooters.{{cite web|title=Sydney 2000: Shooting – Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions|url=http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sh/SHresults.pdf|work=Sydney 2000|publisher=LA84 Foundation|pages=81–86|accessdate=29 March 2015}}