Abhinav Bindra won first gold medal in beijing olympics

Posted by Yuka as World

Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in men’s 10 metre air rifle event of the shooting competition at Beijing Olympics on Monday morning.

India, a nation of a billion people addicted to cricket, have won eight field hockey Olympic gold medals but had never won an individual title before Bindra’s feat.

The previous best was trap shooter Rajyavardhan Rathore’s silver at Athens four years ago, while there were bronze medals for wrestler Khasaba Jadhav (1952), tennis star Leander Paes (1996) and woman weightlifter Karnam Malleswari (2000).

Bindra, a 25-year-old businessman from Chandigarh, followed his world championship title of two years ago by grabbing the men’s 10m air rifle shooting gold medal.