Inderjeet Singh ;21st Asian Athletics Championships 2015 – Throws Preview

India’s World University Games silver medalist Inderjeet Singh is leading the Asian Rankings for the season with a superb 20.65m achieved at home during the Federation Cup at the beginning of this month.

Although he missed a podium finish during the last edition of the Asian championships at Pune, Singh went on to earn a bronze medal in the Asian Games at Incheon last year.

Inderjeet further confirmed his consistency with another superb toss of 20.42m during the national trials for Universiade at Patiala on 28 May.

In the absence of Saudi Arabia’s gold medalist Sultan Abdulmajeed Al-Hebshi, the Indian’s nearest rival in Wuhan would be Pune and Incheon silver medalist Chang Ming-Huang from Chinese-Taipei, having a PB of 20.58m.

The mainland China also fielding two throwers with personal bests over 20 metres in Wang Guangfu (20.20) and Tian Zizhong (20.05).

A medal sweep is imminent for China in the women’s section.  Though the hosts are not fielding Gong Lijiao, the top woman for this event in 2015, the next three throwers Guo Tianqian (18.57), Gao Yang (18.46) and Bian Ka (17.53) are likely to wrestle it between them for the top honours.