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India’s Tajinderpal Singh Toor was magnificent and provided another medal for the country as he bagged a gold medal in men’s shot put at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Sunday.

Tajinderpal became the fourth Indian shot putter to defend his Asian Games title after Parduman Singh Brar (1954 and 1958), Joginder Singh (1966 and 1970), and Bahadur Singh Chouhan (1978 and 1982). He had clinched the Gold Medal in the last edition of the continental meet in Jakarta in 2018 as well.

He kicked off the event with a promising throw of around 20m but it ended up being a foul. His second throw was also ruled out. Toor managed his first legal throw in his third attempt, registering 19.51m.

 

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Saudi Arabia’s Mohamed Daouda Tolo was leading the field with a best throw of 19.93m.

Toor then bounced back and registered a massive throw of 20.06m in his fourth attempt to get into the gold medal position, but Tolo reclaimed the lead, with a 20.18m throw.

Indian shot putter after defaulting his fifth throw, registered a massive one in his last attempt of 20.36m.

Saudi’s Tolo couldn’t overhaul the Indian’s best and had to settle for silver.

The 28-year-old Indian was expected to defend his title which he won in 2018 with a gold medal victory.

Earlier, Avinash Sable became the first Indian athlete to win the gold medal in the 3000m steeplechase at the Asian Games. He earned India their first gold medal in athletics, completing the race in 8:19.50 seconds.

 

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Sable created history and rewrote the previous Asian Games record of 8:22.79 held in the name of Iran’s Hossein Keyhani set at the 2018 Jakarta Games.

Meanwhile, Amlan Borgohain finished in the third position after clocking 21.08 seconds in the men’s 200m heats and advanced to the semifinal. The first three athletes in each heat make the cut for the semi-finals. The top four times from all the heats who have not made the cut will also advance to the semifinals.