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Shimon Sharif born 7th January 1977, started shooting in 1995 and is the founder & editor of indianshooting.com the first website ever to be dedicated to shooting sports.

Shimon has so far competed at five international competitions including the ISSF World Cup in Korea 2003 along with Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra. He has competed in fifteen National Shooting Championships from 1995-2011 and at four National Games from 1997-2002. Shimon has won over 25 medals at various National level shooting competitions, and is a two times silver medalist at the National Games 2002 and National Games 2001 and winner of "Best Shooter Award" of Northern India in 2003. Shimon is also the first Indian to compete in the running target shooting event (Hungary 2007).

Shimon has a vast knowledge of the sport and has a vision to take this Olympic sport to new frontiers and make it available to the masses in order to encourage them to take up the sport. Since Shooting Sports in India has always been under wraps for a common man, he sorted the idea for a website so a common man has access to first hand information to the sport and everything associated with it. With a clear vision of helping make more Olympians in the country he has taken this challenge to start this wide promotion.

''Indianshooting. com'' also appears in the Limca Book of Records for being the first website dedicated to Indian Shooting Sports.