Personal information | |
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Birth name | Shimon Sharif |
Nationality | Indian |
Born | New Delhi, Delhi, India | 7 February 1978
Alma mater | The Frank Anthony Public School, New Delhi |
Height | 185cm(6ft 1in) |
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | India |
Sport | Shooting |
Event(s) | 10m Air rifle, 50m Rifle, 10m Running Target |
Team | India, Delhi, CISF |
Coached by | Laszlo Szucsak |
Shimon Sharif (born 7 February 1978) is an Indian sport shooter. He started his sports career in 1995.[1][2] He has participated in several international shooting competitions including the ISSF World Cup at Korea in 2003. He has won multiple medals for Delhi at various National Games of India.[3] In 2007, he became the first Indian to compete in the 10 meter running target event.[4] He is named in the "Limca Book of Records" for floating India’s first website on shooting sport indianshooting.com.[5] He conceptualized Online Shooting during pandemic Covid-19 and has so far organized multiple editions of International Online Shooting Championship and a month-long Online Shooting League which also became the World's first online league in an Olympic sport.[1][6] Shimon is also the founder of Topgun Shooting Academy.[7][8]