Toor had won gold at the 2018 Asian Games, and lost his father to cancer soon after; he then broke his wrist, and could not train for months, and had a surgery in September 2021.
Hangzhou (China) : A mountain of a man at 6’4” and a girth to match, shot-putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor, won the gold medal for shot putt on Sunday Oct 1, a special report by Rohit Mahajan in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says
Toor had won gold at the 2018 Asian Games, and lost his father to cancer soon after; he then broke his wrist, and could not train for months, and had a surgery in September 2021.
Toor heaved the shot put to 20.36 metres, getting past Saudi Arabia’s Mohamed Daouda Tolo,
He was India’s second gold on Sunday at the magnificent Olympic Park. Unlike Toor, Avinash Sable, the Commonwealth Games silver medallist, faced not a single anxious moment as he led from start to finish, easily smashing the Asian Games record, ending in 8 minutes, 19.50 seconds.
He bettered the record of 8:22.79, set five years aago by Iran’s Hossein Keyhanij. Sable, 29, later said he’d decided to set the pace himself — he knew that he wouldn’t be pushed by anyone here.
“I have always followed the pace set by others,” said the Army man. “Today I decided to set my own pace and not to bother about what others were doing.”
Speaking to the press afterwards, Toor aid he just wanted to be fully fit for the event. The 28-year-old man from Moga had suffered a groin injury in July, when he won gold at the Asian Championships in Bangkok — this injury put him out of the World Championships.
“I was preparing to do my best in the World Championships, but this groin injury happened. I was disappointed, but you cannot do anything about injury,” he said.
After Toor’s final attempt, which put him at No. 1, home favourite Liu Yang and Saudi Arabia’s Tolo did have a chance to edge him out — they flexed their muscles but the iron ball didn’t oblige, and Toor lifted his arms in celebration and ended the night with moist eyes as he savoured gold.
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