Ace shooter Abhinav Bindra finished a disappointing 40th in men's 10m air rifle event in the ISSF World Cup (Rifle and Pistol) in Fort Benning, USA.

The 23-year-old Indian, ranked 10th in the world, finished with a series of below par scores of 97, 97, 100, 98, 98, 98 for a total of 588 that gave him no chance of entering the final on Thursday.

Olympic champion and World No. 1 Qinan Zhu came up with a superb performance in the final to edge out Peter Sidi of Hungary for first place. The Chinese shot 104.6 in the final to add to his preliminary round score of 595 for a total of 699.6.

Sidi finished just behind with 699.5 (599 + 100.5).

Austria's unsung Thomas Franik was a surprise winner of the bronze medal with a score of 699.1 (596 + 103.1).

Bindra, who won the bronze medal in the 2003 Munich World Cup to qualify for the Athens Olympics [Images], came up with a superb performance at the Olympic shooting range but still had to be content with the seventh place with a total of 694.6 (597 + 97.6) last August.

The other Indian in the USA World Cup was Ronak Pandit, who entered in the 50m pistol and 10m air pistol events.