Biography Presentation

Abhinav Bindra
India's first-ever individual Olympic gold medalist.
 Introduction

Abhinav Apjit Bindra is an Indian Olympic gold

medallist, retired sport shooter, and businessman. He is
the first and one of only 2 Indians to win an Individual
Olympic Gold Medal. He is the first Indian to have held
concurrently the world and Olympic titles for the men's
10-meter air rifle event, having earned those honors at
the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2006 ISSF World
Shooting Championships. Bindra has also won seven
medals at the Commonwealth Games and three medals
at the Asian Games.
 Early years
Bindra was born in Dehradun in Uttarakhand, to a Punjabi
family. From his mother's side, he is a 5th generation direct
descendant of Hari Singh Nalwa, the Commander-in-Chief of
the Sikh Khalsa Army. He was educated at the Doon School in
Dehradun and at St. Stephen's School in Chandigarh.He studied
business administration at the University of Colorado
Boulder.Determined to train with the best possible facilities,
which were then not available in India, he would train for
prolonged periods in Germany.
 With more than 150 medals in his 22-
year career,
Notable International
Performances
At the age of 15, Bindra was the youngest participant in
the 1998 Commonwealth Games. He was also the
youngest Indian participant at the 2000 Summer
Olympics in Sydney. At the 2000 Olympics, he achieved a
score of 590, placing him 11th in the qualification round.

Asian games
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing 10 m Air Rifle
World Championships
2006 Zagreb 10 m Air Rifle Medal Record
Commonwealth Games
2002 Manchester 10 m Air Rifle
2006 Melbourne 10 m Air Rifle
2010 Delhi 10 m Air Rifle
2014 Glasgow 10 m Air Rifle
2002 Manchester 10 m Air Rifle
2010 Delhi 10 m Air Rifle
2006 Melbourne 10 m Air Rifle
Asian Games
2010 Guangzhou 10 m Air Rifle (Team)
2014 Incheon 10 m Air Rifle (Team)
2014 Incheon 10 m Air Rifle
 Awards

2000 – Arjuna award

2002 – Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna (India's highest sports award)
2008 − Honorary doctorate (D.Litt) from SRM University
2009 – Padma Bhushan
2011 – Made an honorary lieutenant colonel by the Indian Territorial Army
2018 – Blue Cross, highest shooting honor by International Shooting Sport
Federation
2019 – Honorary doctorate (DPhil) from Kaziranga University
 Business career
Bindra has a bachelor's degree in business
administration from the University of Colorado.
Bindra is the CEO of Abhinav Futuristics Private
Limited, an organization that works to bring
science and technology into the sport and
healthcare sectors. With ABTP, a group of sports
science and advanced physical medicine and
rehabilitation (PMR) centers, the organization
has served more than 5,000 athletes and medical
patients. Under the Abhinav Bindra Foundation,
a non-profit initiative, athletes are provided
access to the latest sports technology and high-
performance physical training for free. Many
athletes from sports such
as swimming, badminton, boxing, and para-
athletics have benefited from the foundation's
various programs. In 2020, he launched
the Abhinav Bindra Sports Medicine and
Research Institute at Bhubaneswar with the
mission of bringing Global Best Practice to the
Indian Healthcare and Sports Medicine Sector.
 Takeaways

1.You need passion and addiction.

2.The idea is to better yourself
3.Don't get bogged down.
4.Love what you do, do what you love.
5.Be the best version of yourself.
Thank you
BY
Parshwa Gandhi
PRN- 1062200522
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