The Shooting Star: Abhinav Bindra
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Abhinav Bindra was born on 28 September 1982.His birthplace is Dehradun. He studied at The Doon School for two years and then moved to St. Stephen's School, Chandigarh; he graduated from Stephen's i...
n 2000. He has an indoor shooting range installed at their home in Patiala, Punjab. He was personally coached by Dr.Amit Bhattacharjee.
His current coach is a five-time Olympic shooter Gabriele Bühlmann from Basel, Switzerland, with whom he had trained in Germany before the Olympics. At the age of 15, he became the youngest participant in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. He got his breakthrough on winning a Bronze in the 2001 Munich World Cup with a new junior world record score of 597/600. Bindra was also the youngest Indian participant at the 2000 Olympic Games.
He won six gold medals at various international meets in 2001. In 2000 he was honoured with the Arjuna Award and the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2001.
In the Air rifle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Manchester, he won Gold in the Pairs event. He then went on to win the Silver in the individual event. On 24 July 2006, Bindra became the first Indian shooter to win a World Championship gold in Zagreb. Dr. Karni Singh's Silver in 1962 was the previous best by an Indian in a World Championship meet.
At the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, he won the Gold in the Pairs event and the Bronze in the Singles event. Abhinav missed the 2006 Asian Games at Doha due to his back injury. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Abhinav Bindra won the gold in the Men's 10m Air Rifle event after shooting a total of 700.5. This was India's first individual gold medal at the Olympics, and the first gold in 28 years. Bindra was also rewarded by various Indian state governments and private organisations for his achievement.
When the 2010 Commonwealth Games were held in New-Delhi, he got the honour of being the Indian contingent's flag-bearer at the opening ceremony. He also got the honour of taking the athletes' oath on behalf of the 6,700 participants from 71 countries and territories on that occasion.
Abhinav Bindra won the Gold medal in the Men's 10-metre Air rifle event at the 12th Asian Shooting Championships, which was held in Doha Qatar. In 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, he again won Gold in the Men’s 10m air rifle singles event.
Bindra is the CEO of Abhinav Futuristic, the sole distributor of Walther arms in India. He also has sponsorship tie-ups with Samsung, BSNL and Sahara Group. He is also the brand ambassador by State-run Steel Authority of India Ltd. and also a member of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Sports Committee since 2010.
A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold ,his autobiography published by Harper Sport and thereafter co-authored by him with sportswriter Rohit Brijnath in October 2011.This was released by Union Sports minister Ajay Maken on 27th October,2011.
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