Abhinav Bindra bags Olympic spot

Champion shooter Abhinav Bindra, who was the gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, became the fourth Indian shooter to bag a place for the 2016 Rio Olympics after Gagan Narang, Jitu Rai and Apurvi Chandela, finishing sixth in the Mens 10m Air Rifle final at the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Munich on Thursday.

Bindra, who shot a score of 122.4 in the final, had shot 627.5 to qualify for the final in his pet event.

Narang did so after finishing third in the 50m Rifle Prone Event of the ISSF World Cup at Fort Benning in USA.

Chandela had secured the quota place by winning the bronze in the 10m Rifle at World Cup in Korea last month, while pistol ace Jitu Rai had won Indias first Olympic quota place at the World Championships in Granada, Spain last year, when he won silver in the 50m Free Pistol event.