Former Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra won the men’s 10 metre air rifle event at the Asian Air Gun Championship on Sunday. Bindra shot 208.8 points to clinch the gold while compatriots Gagan Narang and Chain Singh finished fourth and sixth respectively at the Karni Singh Shooting Range.
All the three shooters have already secured quota places for next year’s Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.
This is the first international shooting competition to be held in India after a gap of almost five years, the last being the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010.
India won the gold medal in the 10m air rifle team event too with Bindra, Narang and Chain Singh shooting a total of 1868.6. The Korean team finished second and Saudi Arabia took the third spot.