Abhinav Bindra was the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal on August 11, 2008 in Beijing. He started his Olympic journey in 2000 and qualified in three Olympic finals including his golden journey of Beijing in 2008 (Athens being the other one) in his pet10m air rifle, while he missed out in Sydney and London.
Abhinav Bindra achieved the feat during the 2008 Beijing Olympics when the 10 metre air rifle shooter was seen at the top of his craft.
The shooter shot a 10.8 on his last shot and sealed the gold medal for the Indian.
Before this shot, he was tied with Henri Hakkinen from Finland and had he shot anything less than 10.8, he would not have won the gold medal.
He started his Olympic journey in Sydney in 2000 and qualified in three Olympic finals including his golden journey of Beijing in 2008 (Athens being the other one) in his pet 10m air rifle, while he missed out in Sydney and London.
Bindra, India’s lone individual Olympic gold medallist, in 2017 officially announced his retirement, saying “it is time to move on and hand over the baton to the younger generation.”