AFI National Throws Competition: Tajinderpal Singh Toor Lights Up Tournament With New Meet Record

Former Asian Games champion Tajinderpal Singh Toor improved his meet report by 1 cm on method to the boys’s shot put gold within the second AFI National Throws Competition on Wednesday.

Looking to go previous the 20m mark, Toor uncorked 4 places past 19.51m however needed to content material himself with a finest effort of 19.95m.

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Toor, the 2018 Asian Games gold medallist, dominated the Shot Put circle, leaving Karanveer Singh to combat a battle to search out his rhythm late within the day.

Karanveer fouled the primary two makes an attempt and obtained 17.38m with a gingerly effort to earn himself three extra tries. With 19.35 and 19.54m efforts in his final two makes an attempt, he snatched silver from Sahib Singh’s 18.77m.  It was Toor’s efficiency and Karanveer’s closing two efforts which expectedly lit up the sector. The two appeared to have benefitted from having accomplished a 1-2 within the Asian Indoor Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, whereas a lot of the different rivals are in coaching part forward of an extended season.

In the boys’s Discus Throw, Haryana’s Manjeet pipped Praveen Kumar (Rajasthan) to the second place in an inter-Services battle.

Manjeet, showing in an Air Force vest, discovered the explosive power on the finish of the competitors to ship the Discus over 51.24m to earn the gold. Army’s Praveen had hurled the Discus to 50.88m on his second attempt to maintain the lead until Manjeet’s closing attempt.

Earlier, Rekha Singh (Uttarakhand) strove exhausting to push the skilled Manju Bala (Rajasthan), 2014 Asian Games bronze medal winner, to second place within the girls’s Hammer Throw.

On a day when she had simply three legitimate throws of the 5 that she tried, the 25-year-old Rekha managed the day’s solely throw past 54m to take the gold.

Rajasthan’s 21-year-old Yuvraj Jakhar endured the stress of not registering a mark on the final 4 of his six tries, whereas watching the others making an attempt to dislodge him from the gold medal place.

He heaved a sigh of reduction when the ball and chain hit turf at 52.32m on the fourth try by S Dinesh (Tamil Nadu). Yuvraj Jakhar’s two throws of 52.69m and 52.43m have been each good for gold.

The outcomes:

Men Shot Put: 1. Tajinderpal Singh Toor (Haryana) 19.95m (New Meet Record. Old: 19.94, Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Patiala, 2022); 2. Karanveer Singh (Punjab) 19.54; 3. Sahib Singh (Delhi) 18.77.

Discus Throw: 1. Manjeet (Haryana) 51.24m; 2. Praveen Kumar (Rajasthan) 50.88; 3. Deepak Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) 49.72.

Hammer Throw:  1. Yuvraj Jakhar (Rajasthan) 52.69m; 2. S Dinesh (Tamil Nadu) 52.32; 3. Meraj Ali (Uttar Pradesh) 51.71.

Women  Discus Throw: 1. Kalavathi Basappa (Karnataka) 44.83m; 2. Nandhini Vellaichamy (Tamil Nadu) 43.50; 3. MN Sushma (Karnataka) 42.98.

Hammer Throw: 1. Rekha Singh (Uttarakhand) 54.44m; 2. Manju Bala (Rajasthan) 53.83; 3. Amreen Subramanyam (Karnataka) 46.71.

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