2008 – The Golden Boy – Abhinav Bindra Shoots Glory At the 2008 Olympics
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Abhinav Bindra made history by winning a gold medal in the 10m Air Rifle event and ended India’s excruciating wait for an individual gold medallist at the Summer Games. It was also India’s first Olympic yellow metal since 1980 when its men’s hockey team returned home on a high.
Bindra was a prodigy of the shooting world and won the Arjuna Award and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award when he was just a teenager ages 18 and 19, respectively. Later on, his success in Beijing earned him India’s third highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan.