Sift Kaur Samra: All You Need to Know About Her Background, Career, Family, Personal Life

Sift Kaur Samra is an Indian shooter who will compete in the women’s 50m rifle three-position event at the Olympics in Paris. She is part of the women’s 50m rifle three-position team along with Anjum Moudgil. The qualification event is scheduled for Thursday, August 1, and the final will be held on Friday.

She was a member of the team that secured the silver medal in the Women's 50 metre rifle three positions team event at the 2022 Asian Games alongside her teammates Ashi Chouksey and Manini Kaushik.

Early Life and Education

Sift was born on September 9, 2001, in Faridkot, Punjab. Her parents, Pawandeep Singh and Ramnik Kair, come from an agricultural background and are involved in the rice selling business.

She did her schooling at Dasmesh Public School in Faridkot and enrolled herself for an MBBS at the GGS Medical College in Faridkot. She was juggling between shooting and her degree. After winning the bronze medal in her debut at the ISSF World Cup in Bhopal last year, she decided to leave the MBBS degree and focus solely on shooting.

Currently, she is studying for a Bachelor of Physical Education and Sports at Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar.

Shooting Career

Sift describes herself as an accidental shooter and was introduced to the sport of shooting during her summer vacation when her cousin Karan Sekhon asked her parents if she could try shooting. This marked Sift's introduction to the world of shooting.

In December 2019, Sift Kaur Samra achieved remarkable success at the National Shooting Championships in Bhopal where she secured a gold medal along with three silver medals and one bronze medal.

In 2020, Sift earned a bronze medal at the Khelo Indian Shooting Championships in Assam. In June 2022, she claimed a gold medal at the Junior World Cup Shooting Championships in Suhl, Germany. In the same year, she won a gold medal at the National Games.

In 2023, Sift further established her prowess by breaking the world record previously held by Britain's Seonaid McIntosh, scoring a total of 469.6 points which included impressive performances of 154.6 in kneeling, 157.9 in prone, and 157.1 in standing elimination, ultimately defeating Qiongyue Zhang of China.

In August 2023, she secured a gold medal at the 31st World University Games that took place in Chengdu.