It’s a membership that counts as its members the the likes of Olympics champion Abhinav Bindra, Olympics medallist Leander Paes and licensed legends of Indian sport like PT Usha and Milkha Singh as members.
But, it’s additionally one membership that no Indian athlete would need to be part of: the membership of fourth-place finishers at an Olympics.
It’s this membership that rifle shooter Arjun Babuta joined on Monday after ending simply exterior the medal locations within the males’s 10m air rifle occasion on the Châteauroux taking pictures vary in France.
Babuta was constantly within the medals spots however with medal within reach, his ultimate shot was a 9.5, that noticed his marketing campaign finish empty-handed.
In qualification, Babuta had shot a complete of 630.1 within the collection of 60 photographs to finish seventh. In the meantime, the opposite Indian within the 10m air rifle occasion, Sandeep Singh, had crashed out after ending in twelfth place in qualification, with a rating of 629.3 factors.
Babuta had already endured heartbreak within the 10m air rifle blended workforce occasion earlier in what’s his debut Olympics, after he and his companion Ramita Jindal had completed sixth.
Full checklist of Indian athletes ending fourth at Olympics
Babuta is the third shooter to function on this checklist, moreover Joydeep Karmakar and Olympic champion Bindra.