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Tajinderpal Singh Toor defends Asian Games shot put gold | Asian Games 2023 News
NEW DELHI: Shot-putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor on Sunday efficiently defended his Asian Video games title with an incredible closing throw in Hangzhou.
Toor, the 2018 Jakarta Asian Video games gold medallist, got here up with a mighty throw of 20.36 metres on his sixth and final try and beat again the problem from his Saudi Arabian rival.
With the terrific closing throw, Toor overhauled Mohamed Daouda Tolo’s distance of 20.18 metres.
Toor, nonetheless, couldn’t break his personal Asian Video games report of 20.75m set in 2018 Jakarta.
However the 28-year-old’s closing throw was means too good for his Saudi rival to overtake in his closing try.
Earlier, Avinash Sable grew to become the primary Indian man to win the gold medal in 3000m steeplechase on the Asian Video games
Sable, the 29-year-old nationwide report holder, earned India its first gold medal in athletics, finishing the race in 8:19.50 seconds. Sable rewrote the earlier Asian Video games report of 8:22.79 held within the title of Iran’s Hossein Keyhani set on the 2018 Jakarta Video games.
The toast of the nation within the final version, Indian heptathlete Swapna Barman’s one “final shot” at glory on the Asian Video games was a nightmare as she struggled with accidents to just about exit of medal reckoning after the javelin throw occasion.
The defending champion, who boasts of a private better of 52.55m in javelin throw, managed a throw of simply 45.13 within the penultimate occasion of the gruelling two-day competitors.
Javelin throw was one of many two occasions Swapna had received in 2018 en path to changing into the primary Indian heptathlete to win an Asian Video games gold.
Total, Swapna was ranked fourth with 4840 factors, 11 factors behind her nearest rival Jingyi Liu of China forward of the 800m race, which is the final phase of the seven-event competitors.
The opposite Indian within the fray, Nandini Agasara notched a private better of 39.88m in javelin throw that took her general rating to fifth place.
Earlier within the day, Swapna Barman leapt 5.71m within the lengthy soar, whereas Nandini Agasara had a season-best 5.94m soar.
Together with her profession ravaged by a spinal damage, the six-toed Indian athlete had contemplated retirement final 12 months. However she took one final shot at glory and got here to Hanghzou in her title defence bid.
This 12 months she received the Inter-State meet and likewise bagged a silver medal within the build-up to the Asian Video games. She additionally averted surgical procedure in order to make sure that she doesn’t miss her coaching regardless of a nasty again.
“However her physique situation couldn’t cope up and he or she did not get a great begin,” her coach Subhash Sarkar instructed PTI.
“She was anticipating a great lead to excessive soar however a fourth place end shattered her and he or she could not get better from there,” he added.
Swapna had a soar of 1.70m, which was nowhere near her private better of 1.87.
“The poor begin has affected her morale and it confirmed in right now’s javelin throw occasion. It is pretty much as good as over,” Sarkar stated of Swapna’s prospects this time.
Earlier, India’s Amlan Borgohain completed on the third place after clocking 21.08 seconds within the males’s 200m heats and superior to the semifinal.
The primary three athletes in every warmth make the minimize for the semi-finals. The highest 4 occasions from all of the heats who haven’t made the minimize may also advance to the semifinals.
The sprinter from Assam, at present the nation’s quickest, holds each the lads’s 100m and 200m nationwide data.
Nevertheless, Jyothi Yarraji did not make the minimize for the ladies’s 200m closing. The Indian had a timing of 23.78s.
Yarraji, nonetheless, is in competition for a medal in girls’s 100m hurdles.
(With inputs from PTI)
Toor, the 2018 Jakarta Asian Video games gold medallist, got here up with a mighty throw of 20.36 metres on his sixth and final try and beat again the problem from his Saudi Arabian rival.
With the terrific closing throw, Toor overhauled Mohamed Daouda Tolo’s distance of 20.18 metres.
Toor, nonetheless, couldn’t break his personal Asian Video games report of 20.75m set in 2018 Jakarta.
However the 28-year-old’s closing throw was means too good for his Saudi rival to overtake in his closing try.
Earlier, Avinash Sable grew to become the primary Indian man to win the gold medal in 3000m steeplechase on the Asian Video games
Sable, the 29-year-old nationwide report holder, earned India its first gold medal in athletics, finishing the race in 8:19.50 seconds. Sable rewrote the earlier Asian Video games report of 8:22.79 held within the title of Iran’s Hossein Keyhani set on the 2018 Jakarta Video games.
The toast of the nation within the final version, Indian heptathlete Swapna Barman’s one “final shot” at glory on the Asian Video games was a nightmare as she struggled with accidents to just about exit of medal reckoning after the javelin throw occasion.
The defending champion, who boasts of a private better of 52.55m in javelin throw, managed a throw of simply 45.13 within the penultimate occasion of the gruelling two-day competitors.
Javelin throw was one of many two occasions Swapna had received in 2018 en path to changing into the primary Indian heptathlete to win an Asian Video games gold.
Total, Swapna was ranked fourth with 4840 factors, 11 factors behind her nearest rival Jingyi Liu of China forward of the 800m race, which is the final phase of the seven-event competitors.
The opposite Indian within the fray, Nandini Agasara notched a private better of 39.88m in javelin throw that took her general rating to fifth place.
Earlier within the day, Swapna Barman leapt 5.71m within the lengthy soar, whereas Nandini Agasara had a season-best 5.94m soar.
Together with her profession ravaged by a spinal damage, the six-toed Indian athlete had contemplated retirement final 12 months. However she took one final shot at glory and got here to Hanghzou in her title defence bid.
This 12 months she received the Inter-State meet and likewise bagged a silver medal within the build-up to the Asian Video games. She additionally averted surgical procedure in order to make sure that she doesn’t miss her coaching regardless of a nasty again.
“However her physique situation couldn’t cope up and he or she did not get a great begin,” her coach Subhash Sarkar instructed PTI.
“She was anticipating a great lead to excessive soar however a fourth place end shattered her and he or she could not get better from there,” he added.
Swapna had a soar of 1.70m, which was nowhere near her private better of 1.87.
“The poor begin has affected her morale and it confirmed in right now’s javelin throw occasion. It is pretty much as good as over,” Sarkar stated of Swapna’s prospects this time.
Earlier, India’s Amlan Borgohain completed on the third place after clocking 21.08 seconds within the males’s 200m heats and superior to the semifinal.
The primary three athletes in every warmth make the minimize for the semi-finals. The highest 4 occasions from all of the heats who haven’t made the minimize may also advance to the semifinals.
The sprinter from Assam, at present the nation’s quickest, holds each the lads’s 100m and 200m nationwide data.
Nevertheless, Jyothi Yarraji did not make the minimize for the ladies’s 200m closing. The Indian had a timing of 23.78s.
Yarraji, nonetheless, is in competition for a medal in girls’s 100m hurdles.
(With inputs from PTI)
