Proud of You Abhinav Bindra

Abhinav Bindra won the gold for the Men’s 10m Air Rifle. He wrote a new chapter in Indian Olympics History. This is India’s first individual gold medal at the Olympics, and the first gold in 28 years, after the Men’s Hockey team won the gold medal in 1980 Moscow Olympics. Bindra finished with 700.5 points; defeat Zhu who had 699.7 points for the silver. Hakkinen got the bronze with 699.4. Something about him Abhinav Bindra is a Sports man and CEO of Abhinav Futuristics, a PC games peripherals distributor based in Chandigarh. At the age of 15, Abhinav Bindra was the youngest participant at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and two years later he was the youngest shooter at the 2000 Olympic Games. He won six gold medals at various international meets in 2001. In the Air rifle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Manchester, he won Gold in the Pairs event and Silver in the individual event. At the 2004 Olympic Games, he broke the Olympic record but failed to win a medal. He is a recipient of the Arjuna award in 2001 and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award for the year 2001-2002. Abhinav Bindra’s potential talent was first spotted by Lt. Col. J.S. Dhillon. He was Bindra’s first coach. Apart from being a shooter, Abhinav Bindra holds an M.B.A. (Masters in Business Administration). Click here for more – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhinav_Bindra See his response about the victory - “It can’t get better than this, can it? I know India was waiting for this for a long time and so was I. I narrowly missed a medal at Athens so I knew I would be in with a chance if I focused on the job.”