Miro Sipek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Miro Sipek

Australian male shooting coach

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1948

Place of Birth: Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Profession: sport shooter

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Miro Sipek

  • Miroslav "Miro" Å ipek (born 6 April 1948) is a Bosnian (ex-Yugoslav) Australian rifle shooting coach.
  • During his long and successful shooting career he was a champion of Yugoslavia 27 times in a range of disciplines (19 times as a senior and 8 as a junior National Team member).
  • He won several medals at various international competitions and Balkans Championships, 4 silver medals at European Championships and a bronze at the 1970 World Championships in Phoenix Arizona. Miro represented Yugoslavia at the 1976 Montreal Olympics in rifle shooting.
  • In 1992, he led the first Bosnian-Herzegovinian National Team from his war torn country to the Barcelona Summer Olympics.
  • Miro was the coach for Australia's shooters at Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.
  • He was the coach for Australia's Paralympic shooters at the Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.

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