Rio de Janeiro: India's hopes for a shooting medal went up in smoke as Abhinav Bindra missed the medal by a whisker finishing fourth in the final round on the men's 10m air rifle competition.

He survived first four eliminations but could not cross the medal hurdle and made his exit with a total of 163.8 points after losing in a shoot-off with Ukraine's Serhiy Kulish.

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