Abhinav Bindra grabs Bronze and announces his retirement

Abhinav Bindra has won a bronze in a 10 metre atmosphere purloin event, his first-ever particular award in the 17th Asian Games during a Ongnyeon International Shooting Range on Tuesday, imprinting an finish to his 20-year sharpened career. The 2008 Olympic champion tweeted this Monday that currently would be his final day as a veteran shooter. The Indian available a final measure of 187.1 to take a bronze award as China finished 1st  Haoran Yang (209.6) winning a bullion medal and 2nd Yifel Cao (208.9) with a silver.

Known to be a initial Indian to win a bullion award during Olympic games, Abhinav Bindra has come a prolonged approach to grasp this feat. He has overcome many obstacles and health problems to strech a apex in sharpened before strictly announcing his retirement from a sport. Here are some pivotal incidences that done this inhabitant shooter a genuine life winner.

2002 - Abhinav Bindra won his initial ever general bullion award (as a pair) and a china award (as a single) during a 2002 Commenwealth games during Manchester. This noted his tour as a veteran shooter and done him a eminent name in the field of sports.

2006 - He suffered from a serious behind damage that joepardised his career. But, as a dauntless warrior he came out of this condition by a reconstruction programme that not usually relieved his behind aria emanate though also softened his posture. He after went on to squeeze bullion at ISSF universe sharpened championships in 2006 and win bullion award (in pair) and bronze (as single) at Melbourne Commonwealth games a same year.

2008 – The ace shooter grabbed eyeballs once again as he struck bullion during a 2008 London Olympics with his despotic diet and aptness regime. 

2012 - This was a year when Abhinav Bindra finished 16^th in the qualifying round heading to his dismissal. The media attributed his shocking performance to a LASIK medicine that he underwent recently. Since Bindra has spent many of his training sessions with glasses, a prophesy improvement competence have interrupted a approach approach his eyes, trigger-finger and mind functioned to strike a target.

2014 - Prior to his purloin sharpened event, Abhinav Bindra announced that he will be timid from a contention after a event. However, he will contest as a hobby shooter, as he is training twice a week and also skeleton to be there during Rio 2016.

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Abhinav Bindra grabs Bronze and announces his retirement