Emily Claire Bugeja (born 30 April 1999) is a Canadian kitefoiler who was sixth in the Pan American Games in 2023.
[2] Bugeja took up Formula Kite and three years later she was in Santiago in 2023 when she came sixth in the Pan American Games that was held in Chile.
[1] Only one athlete is allowed from any one country and Canada's place went to Bugeja as she had scored slightly more highly that her rival kite foiler Marie-Ève Mayrand.
[3] She studied Electrical Engineering in Ontario at Queen's University at Kingston where her interest was in robotics.
By this time the chosen competitors representing different continents included not only Bugeja, but Justina Kitchen from New Zealand, Fawn Jantawan from Thailand, Catalina Turienzo from Argentina, Julie Paturau from Mauritius and the Spaniard Gisela Pulido.