Former World and Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra shot gold with a spectacular finish in air rifle in the IWK Hockbrueck shooting championship in Munich on Saturday.
The 32-year-old Bindra beat Vitali Bubnovich of Belarus by 0.4 points with a total of 208.0. Bindra shot a perfect 10.9 on the penultimate shot after having led by 0.1 points, before the last two shots of the 20-shot final series.
While Bindra ended with a 10.3, the Belarussian finished with 10.4 and 10.5, that saw him fall short of gold.
The result:
Men: Air rifle: 1. Abhinav Bindra 208.0 (630.2), 2. Vitali Bubnovich (Blr) 207.6 (629.3); 3. Niccolo Campriani (Ita) 630.2 (186.2).
