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Tajinderpal Singh Toor won gold in shot put at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

India’s current national record holder Tajinderpal Singh Toor has won the gold medal in men’s outdoor shot put at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2023. Toor won the gold medal with a personal indoor best of 19.49m at the ongoing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan on Friday. In this competition, Tajinderpal Singh Toor has achieved the top position by performing strongly.

It is noteworthy that Tajinderpal Singh Toor is the Asian Games Gold Medalist (2018), Outdoor Asian Champion (2019). Not only this, he had captured the silver medal in the previous edition of the championship in Tehran in 2018 with a throw of 19.18m.

Let us tell you that Tajinderpal Singh Toor committed a foul in his first attempt in the match held on January 10. He cleared a distance of 19.49 meters in his third and fifth attempts of the competition. With this distance, Tajinderpal Singh Toor made the winning throw to win his first gold in the championship.

Karanvir Singh was the only other athlete to cross the 19 m mark in this tournament. He finished second with a best throw of 19.37m. And Ivan Ivanov of Kazakhstan captured the bronze with a throw of 18.10.

Praveen made a new record
India’s national triple-jump champion Praveen Chitravel won the silver medal with a jump of 16.98 metres. With this, he has also set a new national indoor record. In this competition, Olympian Fang Yaoqing of China won the gold medal with a jump of 17.20m and Yu Guimin of South Korea won the bronze medal with a jump of 16.73m.

Swapna Barman, who won the Asian Games gold medal in heptathlon, won the silver medal in the pentathlon event. He scored a total of 4119 marks which is also a new indoor national record. She topped the 60 m hurdles in 8.64 seconds, finished second in the high jump with a jump of 1.75 m and second in the long jump with a jump of 5.91 m, shot put with a jump of 12.13 m. Took fifth and sixth place together. in the 800 meters sprint with a time of 2:27.57 in a nine-man field. India’s Soumya Murugan finished eighth with 3654 points.

Ekaterina Voronina of Uzbekistan won the pentathlon with 4,386 points and Yuki Yamasaki of Japan came third with 4,078 points.

Earlier, India’s Jesvin Aldrin made it to the final of men’s long jump with a new indoor national record of 7.93m. He broke the previous national record of 7.92 m held by Murali Sreeshankar and Kumaravel Prem Kumar. Muhammad Anis Yahiya finished ninth with a best jump of 7.48m. He did not get success in making a place in the final match. The final match will now be held on February 12.

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