• After the Barcelona heartbreak, it took the Kolkata-born marksman eight more years to pocket his first international gold medal at the Australian Open.
  • Another two years down the line, he bagged his first ISSF World Cup medal — a silver at Sydney in 2010. He is still India’s only silver medallist in the 50m rifle prone event in World Cup history.
  • Not just that, he shot 599, one short of the perfect score at the tournament to shatter the Asian record.