Abhinav Bindra: ends 108 year WAIT

Abhinav Bindra Wins first individual Olympics gold for India
Abhinav Bindra won India's first ever individual Olympic gold medal on Monday with a thrilling come-from-behind victory in the men's 10m air rifle.Bindra had been fourth after qualifying but had a brilliant final round and even hit a near perfect 10.8 on his last shot to pull in front of Henri Hakkinen of Finland, who dropped to bronze with a poor final shot of 9.7.Abhinav Bindra's solitary gold medal at Beijing has ended 108 YEAR Olympic gold-medal drought for India. He is the only Indian to win an individual gold—the last time India brought home a gold was for field hockey in 1980, before Bindra was born.

Governor of Chandigarh Gen (Retd) S F Rodrigues handed over a cheque of Rs 5 lakh to a relative Teji Bains in Bindra's absence during the Independence Day celebrations here.

Abhinav Bindra has something more to cheer about as all cash rewards announced for him by several state governments, PSUs and sports bodies will get exempted from Income Tax

TOP GUN
1.he was born on sept 28,1982 in dehradun,stays in chandigarh.
2.hold MBA degee and is a CEO of bindra futuries,a PC game distributor.His first coach Lt. Col. JS Dhillon.
3.had a indoor shooting range backyard and at 15 was the youngest participant at 1998 CommonWealth Games.
4.The youngest to represent India in Olympics at Sydney 2000
5.won bronze in 2001 Munich world cup with a new junior world record of 597/600
6.Become first Indian shooter to win a world championship gold
7.won six medals at various international meets in European circuit in 2001
8.received Rajive Gandhi khel ratna in 2001
9.won gold medal in 2002 Manchester commonwealth games
broke olympics record in athens olympics but fail to get medal
first indian shooter to win a world champianship gold in zagreb in july 2006

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