Sheena Sharp

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| birth_place = Torphins, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

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Sheena Sharp (born 13 April 1953) is a British sport shooter.

Career

Sharp started first shooting at the age of 11 before stopping at 16. Picking up the sport again over 20 years later, she progressed quickly and soon earn selection first with the Scottish and then the Great Britain team.{{cite web |url=http://www.ssra.co.uk/hall-of-fame/sharps.htm |title=Scottish Smallbore Rifle Association Hall of Fame: Sharp |date=October 2009 |publisher=Scottish Smallbore Rifle Association |accessdate=4 September 2012}}

Attending her first Commonwealth Games in 2002, she won silver in the 50 m rifle prone pairs partnering with Susan Jackson.{{cite news |author1=John Barry |title=Other News - Shooting |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/753165959 |access-date=28 December 2023 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=21 July 2002 |page=S2 |language=en-gb |quote=Ceri Dallimore and Joanne Brekke beat off a sustained challenge by the Scottish pair of Sheena Sharp and Susan Jackson in the women's 50m prone rifle, to take Wales' first gold medal of the Games. England's Helen Vincent and Linda Smallbone took bronze.}}{{cite news |title=Commonwealth Games - Medal Results |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/496942215 |access-date=28 December 2023 |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=31 July 2002 |page=F5 |language=en-ca |publisher=Postmedia Network Inc. |issn=0832-1299}} At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Sharp and Jackson went one better and won gold in the same event.{{cite news |title=Game in brief - Home fires burning |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/722983967 |access-date=28 December 2023 |work=The Independent |date=19 March 2006 |page=72 |language=en-gb |issn=1741-9743 |quote=Chris Hector and Mike Babb took the first of England's five gold medals yesterday as they won the men's 50m prone pairs. In the women's equivalent, Scotland took gold through Sheena Sharp and Susan Jackson, who edged England's Sharon Lee and Helen Spittles.}} Sharp also won a second gold in the 50 m rifle prone singles event.{{cite web |url=http://www.ssra.co.uk/profiles/sheena.html |title=Sheena Sharp |year=2010 |work=Athlete Profile |publisher=Scottish Smallbore Rifle Association |accessdate=4 September 2012}}