Abhinav Bindra

Quick Facts

Full Name	Abhinav Bindra
Occupation	Sports Shooter
Date Of Birth	Sep 28, 1982(1982-09-28)
Age	42
Birthplace	Dehradun
Country	India
Horoscope	Libra

Abhinav Bindra Biography

Abhinav Bindra is one of the most popular and richest Sports Shooter who was born on September 28, 1982 in Dehradun, India. Olympic gold medalist and World Champion Shooter in the ten-meter Air Rifle event. He won first place at the 2008 Olympics in the 10 meter air rifle.

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At 15, Abhinav Bindra was the youngest participant in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Bindra was also the youngest Indian participant at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the 2000 Olympics, he achieved a score of 590, placing him 11th in the qualification round, meaning he did not qualify for the finals since only the top eight competed in the finals.

In 2000 he was honoured with the Arjuna Award, and in 2001, the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.

He was born to a Punjabi Sikh family. His personal life is detailed in his 2011 autobiography A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold.

Abhinav Bindra Net Worth

Abhinav Bindra is one of the richest Sports Shooter from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Abhinav Bindra 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He competed in the 1998 Commonwealth Games as the event’s youngest participant.

He studied business at the University of Colorado. He later went on to become the CEO of an Indian arms distribution company.

Abhinav Bindra (born 28 September 1982) is an Indian businessman and retired athlete in Sport Shooting, who is currently India’s only individual Olympic Gold medalist in the 10-metre Air Rifle event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. It was also India’s first gold medal since 1980, when the Men’s Field Hockey Team won the gold. He is the first Indian to have held concurrently the World and Olympic titles for the Men’s 10 metre air rifle event: 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships. Bindra has also won 9 medals at the Commonwealth Games and 3 Gold Medals at the Asian Games.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Abhinav Bindra height 5 feet 8 inches Abhinav weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

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After these successes, a severe back injury incapacitated him so that he was unable to lift a rifle for a year, interrupting his preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Bindra returned to compete when titled at the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships with a score of 699.1, qualifying him for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Facts & Trivia

Abhinav Ranked on the list of most popular Sports Shooter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Abhinav Bindra celebrates birthday on September 28 of every year.

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in New-Delhi, Abhinav Bindra was honoured as the national flag-bearer at the opening ceremony. He also was bestowed the honour of taking the athletes’ oath on behalf of the 6,700 participants from 71 countries and territories. Abhinav Bindra along with Gagan Narang shot in unison to set a Games record 1193 points in 10m air rifle pair’s event for men to win India’s inaugural gold medal at the 19th Commonwealth Games. He brought home a silver medal in the individual event.

Why Abhinav Bindra is rich?

And Abhinav Bindra is lucky to have the requisite class background—his father, Dr A.S. Bindra, heads the Rs 500-crore Hi Tech group of industries. The family’s wealth ensured Abhinav had all that he needed to help him accomplish the Olympian feat of bagging a gold in Beijing.

How much money did Abhinav Bindra get after winning gold?

Ace shooter Abhinav Bindra, who won the first-ever individual Olympic gold medal for India at Beijing, would be awarded a prize money of Rs 50 lakh by the Government during the Arjuna Awards ceremony on August 29.

Who won first Olympic gold medal for India?

Abhinav Bindra had become the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics. “Relief flooded my brain,” said India’s first individual Olympic gold medallist. “It’s the first emotion that releases as four years of investment have been validated.

In which Olympics did Abhinav Bindra won gold medal in rifle shooting?

Men’s shooting
Representing India
| 2010 Delhi| 10m Air Rifle
| 2006 Melbourne| 10m Air Rifle (Singles)
Asian Games

Which year India won most medals in Olympics?

In the 1928 Summer Olympics final India defeated Netherlands 3–0. It was a great achievement for the fact, that it was the first gold medal won by any nation from Asia at the modern Olympic Games. In 1932 Summer Olympics India defeated United States 24–1, the largest margin of victory in Olympics history.