Simona Aebersold

Simona Aebersold is a Swiss orienteering competitor and the daughter of Christian Aebersold, who won the World Orienteering Championships three times. She dominated the Junior World Championships between 2015 and 2018, winning every junior sprint title for four years from the age of 17, all three individual golds in 2017, and relay medals including one gold. At senior level she won European bronze in the middle distance in 2018 behind Tove Alexandersson, then at her first World Orienteering Championships in 2019 took bronze in the long distance and silver in the middle distance. She finished second in the World Cup in 2019 and 2021.