Shimon Sharif
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 Shimon Sharif along with Pullela Gopichand and Harsha Bhogle at FICCI TURF 2009 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Shimon Sharif |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Born | 7 February 1978 New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| 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]