Sunday, August 23, 2015

Athletics News

At 15th IAAF World Championships, Beijing, China

Men's 20 kilometres walk
36 Gurmeet Singh (IND) 1:25:22
42 Chandan Singh (IND) 1:26:40
Baljinder Singh (IND) DNF

Men's Shot Put
11 Inderjeet Singh (IND) 19.52m

In 20km walk, Baljinder Singh thought he finished on his personal best timing 1:21:44 and respectable 12th position but at that time the referees signaled other athlete that he completed race but Baljinder thought they were telling him ... So he stopped but he needed to complete one more round in the stadium for completing so his result displayed did not finish ... Our other two walkers finished race below 30 in the standings.

In Men's shot put event, Inderjeet Singh qualified for the final with 20.47m throw ... Qualification mark was 20.65m but only three throwers managed to cross that mark ... Inderjeet Singh qualified for the final in 8th position of 12 finalists ... He also become only third Indian athlete, who qualify for the final ... But in the final he failed to repeat similar or better throw and finishes on 11th position with only 19.52m throw.

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