Best by an Indian
That’s what Abhinav Bindra achieved as Telegraph reports:
Abhinav Bindra overcame back pain to become the first Indian shooter to win a World Championship gold in Zagreb on Monday. Dr Karni Singh’s silver in 1962 was the best by an Indian in a World Championship meet before Monday.
That no Indian had ever won a gold before is not surprising. After all, the shooting boom in India is not very old. The Indian shooting contingent for Beijing is looking stronger with each passing day. We have the likes of Narang, Samaresh Jung, Rathore and young guns like Bindra.
We disappointed tremendously last time in the Olympics but it will be shocking if we don’t win a few medals via shooting in Beijing. Here’s hoping the shooting contingent does India proud and I don’t have to write some thing on this topic again.
Update: Read Indian Express’ Navneet Singh write on Bindra coming back from the dead.
Tags: Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang, Rajyavardhan Rathore, Samaresh Jung, Shooting.
July 26th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Pratyush it comes as a pleasant surprise that India has been doing fairly well in shooting. The sport requires expensive equipment and ranges that need to be well maintained (neither of which is copious in India). Nor do we really have a long heritage of success that could inspire people to take up the sport. It was only with Mansher and Jaspal Rana that we started producing people who could compete effectively on the big stage. And even they never really deilvered at the Olympics. Rathore’s success at Sydney, and more so the style with which he did it was very inspiring! Wish we break the solo gold jinx at Beijing.
July 27th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Siddhartha, we haven’t had a history in chess or shooting. It is heartening really as a sports fan to see us do so well in shooting. Anand paved the way in chess of course. That path breaking role has been accomplished in shooting as well now and I hope we break the jinx as well. :)
August 17th, 2006 at 5:02 am
[…] I had blogged on Bindra winning gold a few weeks back. The creditable performance in Zagreb by the Indians was to be expected given the steady improvement of the Indian shooting contingent. Regardless of this, the performance is worth applauding. […]
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