Bindra announces retirement from shooting at Asian Games 2014

India's only individual Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra Monday announced his retirement from competitive shooting, saying the 2014 Asian Games would be his last, but added that he would still give his last shot at the 2016 Olympic Games.

Bindra, 31, will represent India in his pet event, the 10-mtre air rifle event in Incheon, South Korea today.

"Tomorrow will mark the end of my professional shooting life! I will, however, still shoot, compete as a hobby shooter, training twice a week," Bindra, who won the gold in the Beijing Olympics, said on Twitter.

Bindra announced in July that the 2014 Glasgow Games would be his last Commonwealth Games and he finished it off in style by winning his maiden singles Commonwealth Games gold.

The former World Champion still hoped that he would be at Rio Olympics in 2016.

Surprisingly, Bindra has only one Asian Games medal, a silver that came in the 2010 edition in Guangzhou. Perhaps a gold here at Incheon would be the perfect ending to an illustrious career that inspired many.

Asian Games Medals tally: September 22nd 

The following is the 17th Asian Games medals tally at the conclusion of Monday's competitions. The below mentioned numbers are tabulated as rank, country, gold, silver, bronze and total number of medals:

Rank  Country            Gold  Silver  Bronze  Total

1.       China                   26        14        18          58
2.       South Korea        14         15        16          45
3.       Japan                  13         13        16          42
4.       Mongolia               3           3          6          12
5.       North Korea          3           3          4          10
6.       Kazakhstan           2           2          5           9
7.       Myanmar               2           0          0           2
8.       Vietnam                1            2          4           7
9.       Iran                       1            2          0           3
10.     Chinese Taipei     1            1          5           7
11.     Malaysia               1            1          2           4
12.     Hong Kong           1            0          6           7
13.     India                     1            0          5           6
14.     Indonesia              0           3          1           4
15.     Macau                   0           3          0           3
16.     Kuwait                   0           2          0           2
17.     Uzbekistan            0           1          4           5
18.     Singapore             0            1          3           4
19.     Laos                      0           1          0           1
20.     Lebanon                0           1          0           1
21.     Turkmenistan        0           1          0           1
22.     Thailand                0           0          2           2
23.     Iraq                        0           0         1            1