ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the 10-metre air rifle Monday, giving India its first medal of the Olympics.
The 2006 world champion entered the final in third place but overtook China’s Zhu Qinan and Finland’s Henri Hakkinen by scoring 104.5 points for the title.
Bindra finished with 700.5 points, to edge out Zhu who had 699.7 points for the silver. Zhu won the gold medal in 2004. Hakkinen got the bronze with 699.4.
There were no Canadians in the event.
Zhu’s second place finish gives the Chinese three medals in the shooting competition after Guo Wenjun won the women’s 10-metre air pistol and Pang Wei took the men’s event.
