New Delhi:&nbsp;Abhinav Bindra on Thursday became the&nbsp;fourth Indian shooter to win a quota place for the Rio&nbsp;Olympics after he finished sixth in the Men's 10m Air Rifle&nbsp;final at the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Munich.
Bindra, India's only individual Olympic gold medallist,&nbsp;shot a score of 122.4 in the final. He had shot 627.5 to&nbsp;qualify for the final in his pet event.&nbsp;
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2014/nov/bindra23sept.jpg" alt="Abhinav Bindra" width="600" height="372" /> Abhinav Bindra. Pic/ AFP
Ace Chinese shooter Zhu Qinan won the gold medal with 206&nbsp;points in the final, while Vladimir Maslennikov of Russia&nbsp;settled for silver with 205.7 points.
Gagan Narang, Jitu Rai and Apurvi Chandela are the other&nbsp;Indians to have secured an Olympic quota earlier.
Narang did so after finishing third in the 50m Rifle&nbsp;Prone Event of the ISSF World Cup at Fort Benning in USA&nbsp;earlier this month. Chandela had secured the quota place by&nbsp;winning the bronze in the 10m Rifle at World Cup in Korea last&nbsp;month, while pistol ace Jitu Rai had won India's first Olympic&nbsp;quota place at the World Championships in Granada, Spain last&nbsp;year, when he won silver in the 50m Free Pistol event.
Each country can win a maximum of 30 quota places from a&nbsp;total of 15 shooting disciplines (including shotgun events),&nbsp;two each from each discipline.
If Bindra could make it to Rio, it will be his fifth&nbsp;consecutive Olympic Games.
The President of the National Rifle Association of India&nbsp;(NRAI), Raninder Singh was elated at Bindra securing another&nbsp;quota place for India.&nbsp;
"I never had any doubts about Abhinav securing a quota&nbsp;place for us sooner or later. He is not an Olympic champion&nbsp;for nothing. He is very clear about his goals and his&nbsp;preparations leading up to big events, is something every&nbsp;professional sportsman in this country should emulate. We have&nbsp;our fingers crossed for him for the Olympics," said Raninder.&nbsp;

Abhinav Bindra on Thursday became the&nbsp;fourth Indian shooter to win a quota place for the Rio&nbsp;Olympics after he finished sixth in the Men's 10m Air Rifle&nbsp;final at the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Munich

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Abhinav Bindra on Thursday became the&nbsp;fourth Indian shooter to win a quota place for the Rio&nbsp;Olympics after he finished sixth in the Men's 10m Air Rifle&nbsp;final at the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Munich

Abhinav Bindra earns India another quota place for Rio Olympics

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