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Inderjeet Singh

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India

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Indian

Name
  
Inderjeet Singh


Country
  
India

Role
  
Athlete

Sport
  
Events
  
Shot put

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Inderjeet Singh (born 02 Feb 1988) is Indian athlete specializing in the shot put. He won the gold medal at the Asian Athletics Championships in 2015. He competed at the 2013 Summer Universiade and won silver medal with a throw of 19.70 metre which was his personal best at that time.He is currently supported by Anglian Medal Hunt Company.

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He bettered the mark with a throw of 19.89 m in Indian National Games on 17 August 2013 at Patiala. On 2 October 2014, he won a bronze medal at 2014 Asian Games in Shot Put event with a throw of 19.63 m. Inderjeet Singh bagged a Gold Medal at the Asian Athletics Grand Prix Series in Bangkok, on 22 June 2015 with a throw of 19.83 m. This was Inderjeet's second gold in an international event this month, having won the shot put event at the Asian Championships in Wuhan, China on 3 June 2015, with a throw of 20.41m which is a new championship record.

Inderjeet Singh has qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics by achieving qualification mark with a throw of 20.65 m in May 2015 at 19th Federation Cup.

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He is currently coached by Pritam Singh, younger brother of another Indian shot putter Shakti Singh.

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In July 2016 Singh failed a drug test for a banned substance.

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Personal life

He is a native of Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar in Punjab. He is an alumnus of Delhi Public School Nigahi & belonging 2006 batch, one of most prestigious school in Coal India campus. He later moved to Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh along with his family, where his father Gurdayal Singh was working in Northern Coalfields Limited. His father's death in 2007 put the family in financial strain but with his family's support, he continued to focus on Athletics.

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Inderjeet Singh Wikipedia


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