New Delhi: World Champion Abhinav Bindra on Saturday failed to qualify for the final of the 10m Air Rifle event at the 2010 World Championships in Munich.
The reigning Olympic champion shot a score of 593/600 in the qualification round to go out of the tournament.
The 27-year-old Bindra had won top honours in the 10m air rifle event at the ISSF World Shooting Championship in Zagreb in 2006 and became the first Indian to clinch an individual gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
He has also won two gold, a silver and a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester and Melbourne and was recently named among the six brand ambassadors for the 19th Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi from October 3 to 14.
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