Summary Bindra finished 3rd in the showpiece 10m air rifle event won by China's world champion Yang Haoran.
INCHEON, South Korea (AFP) - India s lone individual Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra ended his career as a full-time shooter on Tuesday by winning two bronze medals at the Asian Games, saying it was time to take it easy.
Bindra finished third in the showpiece 10m air rifle event won by China s teenaged world champion Yang Haoran. China also picked up the silver through Cao Yifei.
The 31-year-old Bindra led team-mates Ravi Kumar and Sanjeev Rajput to a bronze in the team event behind China and South Korea.
"I am very excited to win these two medals," Bindra told AFP after the victory ceremony. "To do well alongside such world-class shooters is always pleasing."
Bindra earned the honour of being "one in a billion" when he won the 10m air rifle title at the Beijing Games in 2008 to become India s first -- and so far only -- individual Olympic champion.
India have won eight other Olympic golds, but all of them in field hockey till 1980.
Bindra stunned Indian fans on Monday when he announced that Tuesday s event would "mark the end of my professional shooting life."
He clarified that he had no plans to put down his rifle any time soon, but he would not compete in every domestic and international tournament.
"I have been shooting for the last 20 years -- there is nothing else I have done all these years -- and I know its time to rethink my future," Bindra said.
"Shooting will now be a hobby. Earlier I used to train five times a week, now I will probably pick up the gun once or twice a week."
Bindra said taking part in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 was still on his mind.
"If I am good enough to shoot against the best, who knows I may even make it to the Olympics," he said. "Its not that I am giving it up absolutely."
Bindra, who won the gold medal at the Commonweath Games in Glasgow this year, failed to make the final at the world championships in Spain this month.
He agreed that shooting was becoming a young person s sport, mainly due to the change of rules that narrowed down a shot to 10.9 points.
"Earlier you would be happy scoring 10.4, but now you have guys going to 10.9," he said. "The younger guys may have adjusted to the rules better.
"Look at Yang. He is just a kid of 18, but he is such a joy to watch in competition. But then he trains almost 45 hours a week and that is not something I can do now.
"Its not that we older people are doing too badly. But these youngsters are a great bunch of shooters."
The 18-year-old Yang s win is the latest example of a host of young shooters making their mark at these Games.
Iranian teenager Najmeh Khedmati, 18, won the women s 10m air rifle event in a field that included reigning world and Olympic champion Yi Siling of China, who finished fifth.
Korean student Kim Cheong-Yong, just 17, took the men s 10m air pistol title ahead of his hero and compatriot, Olympic and world champion Jin Jong-Oh, and former Olympic gold medallist Pang Wei of China.
