new delhi it was on this day 13 years ago when abhinav bindra became the first indian to win an individual olympic gold medalbindra had achieved the feat during the 2008 beijing olympics and the 10 metre air rifle shooter was seen at the top of his craftthe shooter had shot a 108 on his last shot and this sealed the gold medal for the indian before this shot he was tied with finlands henri hakkinen and if he had shot anything less than 108 he would not have won the gold medalhaving started his olympic journey in sydney back in 2000 the 37yearold shooter qualified in three olympic finals including his golden journey of beijing in 2008 athens being the other one in his pet 10m air rifle while he missed out in sydney and londonbindra in 2017 had officially announced his retirement from shooting saying it is time to move on and hand over the baton to the younger generationthe shooter had missed a near second olympic medal in the rio olympics 2016in the recentlyconcluded tokyo olympics neeraj chopra became second indian to win individual olympic gold for indiajavelin thrower neeraj had on saturday won a gold medal and this was the first medal won by an indian athlete in track and field in the games