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Satu Mäkelä-Nummela
* 26 October 1970 Orimattila
Present residence: Orimattila
169 cm, 63 kg
Club: Orimattilan Seudun Urheiluampujat
Coach: Kevin Kilty
Event: Trap
Satu Mäkelä-Nummela won gold in trap shooting in Beijing 2008, which makes her Finland’s latest Olympic
champion at Summer Games. Her other major medal is World Championship bronze from Maribor 2009. Satu earned
her ticket to Rio by winning a World Cup competition in Larnaca, Cyprus in 2015. In 2016 she has already won a
World Cup event in Baku. Satu is married with two children. Her husband Matti Nummela is a three-time Olympic trap
shooter who finished eighth in Seoul 1988. Satu’s favourite hobbies are gardening and playing the tenor horn.
PREVIOUS OLYMPIC GAMES:
2008 gold trap.
2012 7th trap.
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS (in trap unless stated otherwise):
1993 EurCh 20th.
1994 WCh 13th double trap. EurCh 8th double trap.
1995 WCh bronze. EurCh 5th.
1996 EurCh 5th, 13th double trap.
1997 EurCh 18th.
1998 WCh 29th. EurCh 7th.
1999 WCh 19th. EurCh 30th.
2002 WCh 36th.
2003 WCh 43rd, 22nd double trap. EurCh 14th, 10th double trap.
2004 EurCh 6th, 5th double trap.
2005 WCh 20th, 20th double trap. EurCh 8th.
2006 WCh 36th. EurCh 10th.
2007 WCh 28th. EurCh 10th.
2008 EurCh 9th.
2009 WCh bronze. EurCh 9th.
2010 WCh 25th. EurCh 4th.
2011 WCh 26th. EurCh 11th.
2012 EurCh 10th.
2013 WCh 26th. EurCh 10th.
2014 WCh 17th. EurCh 11th.
2015 WCh 30th. EurCh 8th. European Games 5th.
2016 EurCh 10th.
PERSONAL BEST:
75 (2014)