Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra today qualified for next year's London Games. He qualified despite finishing a lowly eighth in the 10 metre air rifle event of the Shooting World Cup in Munich, Germany. Bindra, India's first individual Olympic gold medallist, shot a qualification score of 596. That left him tied with eight others but he managed to sneak into the finals by managing a score of 52.6 in the shoot-off. Bindra clinched a London Olympics quota place as the top six finishers in today's event had already booked their berths in previous qualifying events. Bindra is now the eighth Indian shooter to book his berth for the London Olympics. In all, 890 shooters from 86 countries are competing in the 2011 Rifle and Pistol World Cup Stage at the 1972 Olympic Shooting Range in Munich. This is one of the final chances to qualify for the 2012 London Games, before the continental championships.