Abhinav Bindra is a retired Indian sport shooter who won India's first individual Olympic gold medal, in the 10 meter air rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He competed at five Olympic Games across his career and was also a world champion in his event. His 2008 victory is widely regarded as a landmark moment for Indian Olympic sport, which had previously won individual medals only in wrestling and had no prior individual gold medal at all.
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Career HighlightOlympic gold medalist in shooting at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics; first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal. 1 Classification
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How did Abhinav Bindra finish at each of his five Olympic Games?
Eleventh in 2000, seventh in 2004, gold in 2008, sixteenth in 2012 and fourth in 2016, all in the men's air rifle.
Abhinav Bindra shot the men's air rifle event at every one of his five Olympic Games. He tied for eleventh place in 2000, finished seventh in 2004, won the gold medal in 2008, finished sixteenth in 2012 and finished fourth in 2016. His 2008 gold is his only Olympic medal. In 2016 he also carried the flag for India at the opening ceremony, in the Games where he missed a second medal by one place.
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Abhinav Bindra (born 28 September 1982) is an Indian former sport shooter and a businessman.
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He is an Olympic gold medalist as well as the first and one of only two Indians to win an individual Olympic gold medal.
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He is an Olympic gold medalist as well as the first and one of only two Indians to win an individual Olympic gold medal.
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Abhinav Bindra (born 28 September 1982) is an Indian former sport shooter and a businessman.
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is an Indian former sport shooter
Competed In: 2008 Summer Olympics, lead paragraph, competed-in
Bindra is also the first Indian to have held concurrently the World and Olympic titles for the men's 10-metre air rifle event, having earned those honours at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2006 World Championships.
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Bindra has won seven medals at the Commonwealth Games and three medals at the Asian Games.
Competed In: 2016 Summer Olympics, lead paragraph, competed-in
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Bindra finished fourth in the finals of the 10-metre air rifle event.
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