Indian Sport Shooters - Abhinav Bindra, Bhim Singh II of Kotah, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Samaresh Jung, Karni Singh, Vijay Kumar, Jaspal Rana (Paperback)

Chapters: Abhinav Bindra, Bhim Singh Ii of Kotah, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Samaresh Jung, Karni Singh, Vijay Kumar, Jaspal Rana, Gagan Narang, Anjali Bhagwat, Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Vikram Bhatnagar, Mansher Singh, Rajyashree Kumari, Tejaswini Sawant, Vivek Singh, Pemba Tamang, Avneet Sidhu, Sushma Rana, Anuja Jung, Sanjeev Rajput, Moraad Ali Khan, Ronak Pandit, Saroja Jhuthu, Bhuvaneshwari Kumari. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Abhinav Bindra (Punjabi:, born September 28, 1982) is an Indian shooter from Zirakpur, Mohali, Punjab and is the current World and Olympic champion in the 10 m Air Rifle event. By winning the gold in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, he became the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games and India's first gold medal since 1980, when the Men's Field Hockey Team won the gold. Abhinav Bindra was born in an affluent Sikh Punjabi family. His parents, Dr. AS and Babli Bindra, had an indoor shooting range installed at their home in Punjab. Bindra's potential talent was first spotted by his first coach Lt. Col. J.S. Dhillon. Bindra was the youngest Indian participant at the 2000 Olympic Games. His current coach is five-time Olympic shooter Gabriele Buhlmann from Basel, Switzerland, with whom he trained in Germany before the Olympics. In the 2000 Olympics he achieved a score of 590, placing him 11 in the qualification round, and did not qualify for the finals since only the top 8 compete in the finals. Bindra won nine medals at various international meets in 2001. In the 10 m Air rifle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Manchester, he won Gold in the Pairs event and Silver in the individual event. At the 2004 Olympic Games, he scored 597 in the qualification round and w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=6642546