Beijing Olympics champion Abhinav Bindra clinched the gold in the men’s 10m Air Rifle event of the Asian Air Gun Championships, held in New Delhi. The 32-year-old Bindra shot 208.3 to bag the top prize ahead of Kazakhstan’s world number eight Yurkov Yuriy (206.6) and Korea’s Yu Jaechul (185.3) on the first day of competition.

Narang, who won a bronze in the same event in 2012 London Olympics, finished fourth with a score of 164.5 while another Indian, Chain Singh was two places below at seventh after notching up 122.7.

India won the gold medal in the 10m air rifle team event too with Bindra, Narang and Chain Singh shooting a total of 1868.6. The Korean team of Kim Dajin, Yu Jaechul and Chain Singh (1859.1) finished second and Saudi Arabia’s Mesfer Abound Alammari, Faiz Anazi Ali and Mubarak Mesfer Aldawsari (1824.8) took the third spot.

India also won a gold and a silver in the youth section while the junior boys bagged two silver medals. Satyajeet Kandhol won the gold medal in the 10m air rifle youth category after he shot 204.8 to pip Chinese Taipei’s Shao-Chuan Lu (203.7) for the top spot. Iran’s Daavoud Abadi Abbasali (183.8) came third. The Indian trio of Kandhol, Mithlesh and Gajendra Raj finished with the silver medal in team event after aggregating 1827.7. Korea won the gold.