Miro Sipek

Miroslav Šipek

2012 team portrait of Miro Sipek
Personal information
Full name	Miroslav Šipek
Nickname	Miro
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1948-04-06) 6 April 1948 (age 76) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia
Height	176 cm (69 in) (1976)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb) (1976)
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Shooting
Retired	1985
Now coaching	1997-2009, Australian National Team; 2001-2019, Australian Paralympic National Team
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	1976 Montreal
World finals	Bronze, 1970 Phoenix Arizona
Regional finals	4 Silver medals at European Championships; Multiple medals at other International competitions including 16 Gold at Balkan Championships
National finals	27 times Yugoslav Champion (19 senior and 8 as a Junior)
Medal record Men's shooting Representing  Yugoslavia World Championships 1970 Phoenix Arizona (USA) 50m rifle prone European Championships 1968 Wiesbaden (Germany) 50m prone 1968 Wiesbaden (Germany) 50m prone - team 1969 Plzen (Czechoslovakia) 3 position 3x20 1975 Bucharest (Romania) kneeling 50m Balkan Championships 16 x Gold Rifle Representing  Australia Olympics, World Championships, World Cup, Commonwealth Games 13 x Gold Coach 6 x Silver Coach 11 x Bronze Coach Paralympics, IPC World Championships, IPC World Cup 26 x Gold Coach 33 x Silver Coach 24 x Bronze Coach

Miroslav "Miro" Šipek (born 6 April 1948) is an 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 Summer Olympics in rifle shooting. In 1992, he led the first Bosnia-Herzegovina National Team from his war torn country to the 1992 Summer Olympics. Miro was the coach for Australia's shooters at 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics. He was the coach for Australia's Paralympic shooters at the Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.