New Delhi: India’s Tajinderpal Singh Toor won the gold medal with a personal indoor best of 19.49m at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2023 in Astana, Kazakhstan on Friday.
On Friday, Toor fouled on his first attempt but hurled the winning throws of 19.49 throw in his third and fifth attempts to claim his first gold medal at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships.
Toor, an Asian Games gold medallist in 2018 and the outdoor Asian champion in 2019, won a silver medal at the last edition of the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tehran in 2018 with a 19.18m thro
Karanveer Singh, the only other athlete to cross the 19m mark from the seven-man field, secured a one-two finish for India with a 19.37m throw.
Ivan Ivanov of Kazakhstan claimed the last spot on the podium with 18.10m.
Praveen Chitravel, India’s national champion in the triple jump, claimed a silver medal with a 16.98m leap, a new national indoor record. Olympian Fang Yaoqing of China hit the 17.20m mark and won the gold while South Korea’s Yu Gyumin claimed bronze with 16.73m. India’s Arun AB finished 12th with a leap of 14.12m among 15 competitors.
