Inderjeet Singh

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The Times of India, June 3, 2015

Inderjeet Singh HAS WON gold at Asian Athletics Championships 2015

Up and coming track and field star Inderjeet Singh bagged a gold medal in men's shot put event as India opened the medal account on the first day of the 21st Asian Athletics Championships on Wednesday.

Inderjeet, a silver medallist in 2013 World University Games and a bronze medal winner in Asian Games(2014) in Incheon, clinched the gold by heaving the iron ball to a new championship record of 20.41m, which he achieved in his fourth attempt.

Inderjeet went into the championships as Asian leader in the season so far with his 20.65m effort and after winning gold in the Federation Cup Senior Nationals in Mangaluru last month. He lived up to the expectations by bagging the yellow metal in the showpiece event.

The 27-year-old left-handed Haryana shot putter, who has already qualified for next year's Rio Olympic Games, thus became only the eighth Indian shot putter to win a gold medal in the history of Asian championships, joining Jagraj Singh (1973), Bahadur Singh (1975), Balwinder Singh (1985 and 1989), Shakti Singh (2000), Navpreet Singh (2007) and Om Prakash Singh Karhana (2009).

"I could have come up with a 21-plus throw had the temperature been ideal. In Incheon Asian Games also my throw was less than what I could have done. My throw was less here also. But I have won gold for the country and I am proud of it," Inderjeet, who had finished fourth in the last edition in Pune in 2013, said after winning the gold.

2015

The Times of India, Jul 09 2015

Amaninder Sharma

Shot putter Inderjeet wins India's first-ever athletics gold in universiade

Shot putter Inderjeet Singh created history by winning the country's first Universiade, also known as the World University Games (WUG), gold medal in athletics. The Games are being held in the South Korean city of Gwangju. It was not an easy outing for the Asian champion as he won the event with his final throw of 20.27 meters.Inderjeet was at second spot after the fifth and penultimate throw with 19.80 metres as his best throw till then. Inderjeet has had a phenomenal year with five gold medals in all five international events he has participated in in 2015. He had won the Asian Championships in China with a throw of 20.41 meters before bagging a gold in each of the three legs of the Asian Grand Prix in Thailand last month. He had also won a bronze in the Asian Games last year with a throw of 19.63 meters.

Inderjeet's hails from Nawan shahr in Punjab, but represents Haryana in national-level competition these days. At the World University Games, he was part of the Indian contingent as a student of Nagarjuna University , Guntur (Andhra Pradesh). Confirming Inderjeet's goldwinning feat, Raj Kumar Sharma, the head of Indian contingent at the Games, said, “This is the first-ever gold in athletics for an Indian in World University Games. Inderjeet's achievement is definitely a moment to savour for us.“