Amit Sheoran (born 19 February 1978 Angadpur,

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, India) is a

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coach, who also competed at a national level, He had to leave shooting due to the death of his father. He has produced several national and international-level Indian pistol shooters. He has coached

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Early life

From around 1995, Amit Sheoran was coached by Mahboob Khan Pathan and entered state- and national-level events. In the beginning of his career Sheoran have to lose his father and entered in his era of struggle.

Coaching career

In 2009 he started a tin-shed shooting range with five students, one

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and an old

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. The shed is named after a 1857 anti-British revolutionary. In 2016 the father of an old student gifted a small parcel of land - sufficient to allow a marginally larger shed (16x12 sqm) with, for the first time, a pair of fans.

Journey to Olympics

Shooter

and Para shooter

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took a step forward to shooting games in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. From Tin-Shed Academy to Olympics coach he proved once again and also his shooter represented in

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and also

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Notable Performance

2018

became the youngest Indian shooter to win a gold medal at the Asian Games. He participated in the Youth Olympic Games 2018 in Argentina and won gold. He won three golds in the Asian Airgun Championship in 2018:the 10m air pistol competition, the team competition and in the mixed team 10m pistol.

2019

In February he won the gold medal at

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in Delhi. In April, he participated in Mixed Team 10m pistol with

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and won gold at ISSF World Cup in Beijing In May he won gold and broke the world and junior records in 10m pistol

in Munich.

2020

In January 2020, he won 63rd gold at the 63rd National Shooting Championship in men's 10 metre air pistol. 2022

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, 2022 Bhopal Gold in Men & Women both 10M Pistol Shooting Event. National Games, 2022 Ahemdabad, Gold in women senior 10M Pistol Shooting event.

Pupils and Students

- Gold medal in 2018 Asian Games, *Monu Kumar is the athlete o
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by Sports Authority of India. *

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is i
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by Sports Authority of India (SAI). *62nd National Sh. Championship, 2018 ''Trivantpuram, Kerla'' ''got Five Gold & a Silver with record.'' *''ISSF World Cup, Delhi 2018'' won Gold with "World record" *

- Gold medal in 2017 World Shooting Para Sport World Cup

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sheoran, Amit 1978 births Living people Sport shooters from Uttar Pradesh People from Baghpat