Shimon Sharif
Shimon Sharif along with Pullela Gopichand and Harsha Bhogle at FICCI TURF 2009
Personal information
Birth nameShimon Sharif
NationalityIndian
Born (1978-02-07) 7 February 1978 New Delhi, Delhi, India
Alma materThe Frank Anthony Public School, New Delhi
Height185cm(6ft 1in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
CountryIndia
SportShooting
Event(s)10m Air rifle, 50m Rifle, 10m Running Target
TeamIndia, Delhi, CISF
Coached byLaszlo 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 in Korea in 2003.[3] In 2007, he became the first Indian to compete in the Running Target event.[4] He is named in the "Limca Book of Records" for floating India’s first website on shooting sports 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]

Awards and recognition

References

  1. 1 2 "Month-long online shooting league to start from July 4". Olympic Channel. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "Shimon Sharif requests NRAI to allow Indian shooters in online league | More sports News - Times of India". The Times of India. IANS. 13 June 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Postal matches inspiration behind online shooting championship: Sharif". www.outlookindia.com/. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  4. ↑ Staff (12 September 2007). "Shimon Sharif to try hands in running target shooting". www.mykhel.com. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  5. ↑ Piyali Dasgupta (19 March 2012). "Shimon Sharif named in Limca Book of Records 2012 | More sports News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "Online shooting has gained traction, ISSF to experiment, says shooter Shimon Sharif". Deccan Herald. 20 September 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "TopGun marksmen dominate inter-school Delhi shooting meet". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  8. ↑ "TopGun marksmen dominate Karni Singh shooting meet". India Today. P. T. I. 13 July 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  9. ↑ Piyali Dasgupta (19 March 2012). "Shimon Sharif named in Limca Book of Records 2012 | More sports News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
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