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Tejinder Pal Singh Toor

Tejinder Pal Singh Toor (born 13 November 1994) is an Indian shot putter who holds the outdoor national record of 20.92m. Early life Toor was born on 13 November 1994 in Khosa Pando village in Moga district, Punjab. Hailing from a family of farmers, he switched from cricket to shot put at the insistence of his father. Career In June 2017, Toor recorded his personal best outdoor throw of 20.40m at the Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships in Patiala, but fell short of the World Championships qualification standard of 20.50m. In the following month, he won the silver medal at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar with a throw of 19.77m, missing out on the gold medal by 0.03m. Toor finished eighth in the final of the 2018 Commonwealth Games with a throw of 19.42m. On 25 August 2018, Toor won gold at the 2018 Asian Games with a 20.75m throw, breaking the Games record and the national record. A thrilling contest between Neeraj Chopra and Davinder Singh in the men’s javelin throw was the highlight of the second day of the Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships at Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports, Patiala, on Friday. Both the athletes had already qualified for the World Championships but it was Neeraj Chopra who asserted his supremacy with a throw of 85.63m. Neeraj’s effort, a new meet record eclipsing Devender Singh’s mark of 79.65m recorded in Mangalore in 2015, put him in the top 10 list of throwers this season. Davinder Singh finished second with a best effort of 83.82m, while Abhishek Singh of UP threw the spear 77.00m to claim the bronze medal. Tejinder Pal Singh won the men’s shot put event with a throw of 20.40m, just 10cm away from the qualification mark for the World Championships. Jasdeep Singh Dhillon picked up silver with a throw of 19.46m while national record holder OP Karhana took bronze with an effort of 19.30m. Competing in the year’s first 200m competition on domestic circuit, Amiya Mallick and Srabani Nanda, both of Odisha, claimed the men and women’s titles respectively. Mallick recorded a time of 21.22s while Nanda clocked 23.57s. Mallick who was competing in his first 200m competition since the 2013 Open Nationals, finished ahead of Sanjeet of Haryana (21.43s) and Vamsi Praveen of Andhra Pradesh (21.78s).