India will full 75 years of Independence this yr. Here's a collection acknowledging 75 nice sporting achievements by Indian athletes. Sportstar will current one iconic sporting achievement every day, main as much as August 15, 2022.
August 11, 2008: Abhinav Bindra wins India’s first particular person Olympics gold medal at Beijing
It was the unquenchable need to excel, a scientific method and the navy self-discipline that fired Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore to the silver medal within the 2004 Athens Olympics.
With the nation having gained the boldness of reaching the Olympic podium after the bronze by tennis ace Leander Paes (Atlanta, 1996) and weightlifter Karnam Malleswari (Sydney, 2000), Rathore helped India take an even bigger leap of religion together with his prowess in double entice.
An unstable wood floors had robbed air rifle shooter Abhinav Bindra of a medal in Athens. Rathore had mentioned then that Abhinav can be a World champion sooner or later. Abhinav, who turned a World champion in 2006 in Zagreb, beat defending champion Zhu Qinan in his yard for the gold within the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Turning adversity to success
The Athens expertise had helped Abhinav to be indifferent in regards to the consequence, and put together to be the perfect. A misaligned rifle earlier than the ultimate may have shaken the toughest of opponents, however Abhinav tuned it very quickly to ship 10 finest photographs that helped him overcome a two-point deficit earlier than the ultimate!
