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Mairaj Ahmed Khan is an Indian skeet shooter and two-time Olympian. Khan was the first Indian skeet shooter to qualify for the Olympics when he qualified for the Rio Olympics in 2015; he also competed in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. He has won gold at the ISSF World Shooting Championships, the Commonwealth Shooting Championships, and the Asian Shooting Championships. In 2021, Sportstar reported that Khan was ranked #24 in the world in skeet.

Early life
Khan was born on 2 November 1975 to Ilyas Ahmed and his wife in Khurja, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India. Khan's father, uncles, and brother Najam were all state-level trap shooters but none of them pursued it professionally. At age 10, he placed third in a U-12 50-metre rifle competition and used his prize money to buy a cricket bat. He eventually decided not to pursue cricket professionally and instead turned to skeet shooting after college. Khan also has a Masters degree. ==Career==
Career
Khan's first international competition was the 2003 ISSF World Cup in Lonato, Italy. Asian Shooting Championships (2004, 2007-2009, 2011-2014, 2016-2017, 2019), At the Rio Olympics, he finished in 9th place. This came as a surprise to Khan, who almost quit shooting after his father's 2021 death. Sunny Thomas, and Riccardo Filippelli. Khan also runs an NGO called MAK Shooting Foundation, which trains future shooting talent. ==Medals==
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