Emily Bugeja at the 2024 Olympics in Paris!

Bugeja qualified herself for Paris 2024 by being the top-ranked Canadian in women’s kite at the 2024 Formula Kite World Championships and the Trofeo Princesa Sofia regatta.

 

Bugeja debuted at the Formula Kite World Championships in 2022, one year before she competed at her first Sailing World Championships for all classes in 2023. It was also in 2023 that she made her World Cup Series debut at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia.

 

Emily competed in her first Olympics at the 2024 Olympics Games in Women’s Kiteboarding and finished 18th. Emily was also a Platform Coaching Grant Recipient.

 

Emily Bugeja has been sailing since she was 8 years old, starting at a summer camp at West Vancouver Yacht Club. Her racing career began in the Optimist in 2010 as a part of the North Shore Sailing Team, and later the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club Race Team. After aging out of the Optimist, Emily sailed 29er where she represented Canada at the 2016 Youth Worlds in Auckland, New Zealand and placed 17th, and BC at the Canada Games where she won a bronze medal. After a brief hiatus from racing where she studied Electrical Engineering at Queen’s University, Emily learned to kite foil and is back with the dream of representing Canada at the 2024 Olympic Games. After starting to race in Kingston, ON during 2021, she continued training hard throughout 2022, eventually qualifying for the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, where she earned a quota spot for Canada at the 2024 Olympics.

 

Bravo Zulu Emily!