BEIJING // The Indian Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the 10-metre air rifle today, giving his country their first medal of the Olympics. The 2006 world champion entered the final in third place but overtook Zhu Qinan of China and Henri Hakkinen of Finland 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 took bronze with 699.4. 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.
*AP
