Monday, August 11, 2008

Chak De India: a gold for India in Olympics

Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra wins the first every first ever individual Olympic gold medal in 10 metres air rifle event. Bindra was fourth after qualifying but had a brilliant final round and even hit a near perfect 10.8 on his last visit to pull in front of Henri Hakkinen of Finland, who dropped to bronze with a poor final shot of 9.7.

Milestones Set by Abhinav Bindra
  • Made a junior world record score of 597/600 in 2001 Munich World Cup and won bronze
  • Gold in 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games
  • Became the first Indian shooter to win a World Championship gold
  • Recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2001.

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