Luna Solomon

Luna Solomon (born 1994) is an Eritrean sport shooter who now lives in Switzerland after fleeing Eritrea. She competed at both the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics as part of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Refugee Olympic Team.

Early life Solomon was born in 1994. She has eight siblings. In December 2014, she fled Eritrea due to conflict and human rights abuses. Solomon did not tell her family that she planned to leave; she traveled with several neighbors and had no passport. The group crossed the Libyan Desert, which was a difficult journey that took ten days and during which there was very little to eat or drink, and Solomon said that "a lot of people died on the way". She then crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Italy in a small boat. Her father died after she arrived in Europe, and Solomon became depressed and regretted leaving Eritrea and her family. After three years, she received official refugee status. The project reaches out to refugees in Lausanne and trains them to try to reach the minimum qualifying score in the 10m air rifle event. At first, Solomon struggled to understand the project, as she only understood shooting to be for the purpose of killing people and had not previously encountered sports shooting. Solomon was last of the fifty competing shooters at the Olympics in her event. She said that other sports shooters at the event approached her to offer encouragement.

It was announced in May 2024 that Solomon would be competing as part of the Refugee Olympic Team in the 2024 Olympic Games. In June, she competed at the World Cup in Munich. Later in the year, she competed in the women's 10m air rifle event at the Olympics and finished in 43rd place.

Private life Solomon lives in Lausanne, Switzerland and has a son born in 2020.