Abhinav Bindra is the winner of the first ever individual Olympic gold medal for India. He won gold in which shooting event and in which Olympic Games ?
- A.10 meter air pistol, London
- B.10 meter air rifle, London
- C.10 meter air rifle, Beijing
- D.10 meter air pistol, Beijing
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, 10 meter air rifle, Beijing. Abhinav Bindra won the men's 10 m air rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics on 11 August 2008, India's first individual Olympic gold.
Before Beijing, all of India's Olympic golds had come in men's hockey. Bindra, from Punjab, scored 700.5 points in the final to edge out China's Zhu Qinan and Finland's Henri Häkkinen. He had already won world championship gold in the same event in 2006, and he later wrote his autobiography, A Shot at History. India's second individual gold came only in 2021, when Neeraj Chopra won the javelin at Tokyo.
A and B are wrong because India won no shooting gold at London 2012; Vijay Kumar took silver in the 25 m rapid fire pistol and Gagan Narang bronze in the 10 m air rifle there. D is wrong because Bindra was a rifle shooter, and Beijing's 10 m air pistol gold did not go to India.
Exam tip: Bindra, 10 m air rifle, Beijing 2008; Neeraj Chopra, javelin, Tokyo 2020 (held 2021).
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