Olympic Shooting Event 1997

Sunny Thomas is called a 'reluctant coach' with good reason. "I took up coaching after I retired as an English schoolteacher in 1997 because the Kerala sports authorities coaxed me to," confesses the man who has since coached "everybody who is anybody" in India's shooting history. "I didn't even have 10 percent of the experience of the play­ers I coach and I refused at least three coaching offers," admits India’s first national coach for shooting.