Gaby Ahrens
Gaby Diana Ahrens is one of Namibias most successful and most decorated elite athletes. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics in the Women's trap event,. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was the Namibian flag-bearer, the first women of her country to receive this honor. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she again competed in the Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Women's trap/Women's trap, where she finished in 9th place, just one target off the finals.
Ranked Number 1 on the African Continent for many years, Gaby has won two African Championship Titles in 2011 and 2015 as well as several Namibian, South African and Angolan National Titles in Olympic Trap Shooting.
Gaby was awarded Namibia Sports Woman of the Year in 2010, the same year she won a Bronze Medal at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
Today she manages her own Business in Windhoek and proves to be a successful entrepreneur. Retired from competitive sport since 2016, Gaby still invests in Sport. She chairs the Namibia Athletes Commission and is an executive board member of the Namibia National Olympic Committee.
She is also currently studying a master's degree in Sports Management through the International Olympic Committee MEMOS in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her efforts aim at supporting Namibian elite athletes in competition and is taking steps to counter the negative influencing factors related to organizational stressors affecting athletes performance.
