New Delhi: Abhinav Bindra on Thursday became the fourth Indian shooter to win a quota place for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, following his sixth-place finish in the men’s 10m air rifle final at the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Munich.Bindra, India’s only individual Olympic gold medallist, shot 122.4 in the final. He had shot 627.5 to qualify for the final in his pet event.
Ace Chinese shooter Zhu Qinan won the gold medal with 206 points while Vladimir Maslennikov of Russia settled for the silver with 205.7 points. Gagan Narang, Jitu Rai and Apurvi Chandela are the other Indians to have secured an Olympic quota earlier. Narang did so after finishing third in the 50m rifle prone event of the ISSF World Cup at Fort Benning in USA earlier this month.
Chandela had secured a quota place by claiming the bronze in the 10m air rifle at the World Cup in Korea last month, while pistol ace Jitu Rai had won India’s first Olympic quota place at the World Championships in Granada, Spain last year.
