Manpreet Kaur (Shot Put) Height, Age, Boyfriend, Husband, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Manpreet Kaur

• Manpreet Kaur is an Indian monitor and subject athlete who competes as a shot putter. In 2015, she set the Indian nationwide document of 17.96m in Women’s Shot Put on the National Open Athletics Championships (Kolkata). She received a gold medal within the shot put with a efficiency of 18.86m on the 2017 Asian Grand Prix in Jinhua, China, which took her to the No. 1 spot within the rankings. However, the efficiency was erased from the document books after she failed the dope take a look at. In 2022, she was named in India’s 37-member Athletics contingent for the 2022 Commonwealth Games after clocking an 18.06m throw on the National Inter State Senior Athletics Championship, smashing her personal 2015 nationwide document.

• In an interview, she revealed that it was her father who inspired her to pursue sports activities after watching her cousin brothers, who had been each athletes. One of them was a 100m sprinter and the opposite a discus thrower. Meanwhile, her sister-in-law was a shot putter.

• Manpreet started her athletic journey as a 100m sprinter for which she educated for a yr. Eventually, her cousin brother guided her to go for shot put as she had a greater likelihood to excel within the sport.

• Her father died when she was 13 after which she had a struggling childhood. In 2006, her mom was paralysed.

• In the identical yr, she started her profession as a junior athlete.

• After finishing Class 12, she first secured a job at Indian Railways after which pursued her commencement.

• She secured ninth rank within the fifth IAAF World Youth Championships in 2007 in Ostrova.

• Manpreet Kaur and Karamjit Singh first met after they began coaching collectively in Patiala underneath Manpreet’s cousin Jagjit Singh.

• Her marriage in 2008 was adopted by her disappointing efficiency within the 2010 Commonwealth Games after which she took a sabbatical and determined to lift a family.

• After giving start to a daughter, she began coaching underneath her husband in 2013 and competed within the 2013 National Games (Jharkhand).

• At the 2015 National Open Athletics Championships in Kolkata, she certified for Olympic Games Rio 2016 with a efficiency of 17.96m. She surpassed the long-standing nationwide document of 17.46m set by Harbans Kaur in 1997. However, her throw in Rio Games was 17.06m, and he or she general completed thirteenth place. Only the highest 12 entered the ultimate.
  

  Manpreet Kaur at Olympic Games Rio 2016

• She made a comeback together with her gold-medal-winning efficiency of 18.86m on the 2017 Asian Grand Prix during which she pushed Olympic champion Michelle Carter of the USA to the second spot, whose finest throw that season was 18.54m.

• In 2017, she received a gold medal on the twenty second Asian Athletics Championships with a throw of 18.28m.

• In the identical yr, she was handed a four-year suspension over a doping violation. While sharing the emotional turmoil she endured following the ban, in an interview, she stated,
  

  There had been ideas of what I ought to do, whether or not to give up or proceed. I did practice however if you find yourself taking part in competitions, you will have targets to attain. There was no goal for me throughout that four-year interval (of ban).”

• With her husband-cum-coach Karamjit Singh based mostly at NIS Patiala, she used to coach at Railway Stadium in Patiala throughout her ban. To break the monotony of her prolonged ban, she used to do mock trials every time precise competitions approached. In an interview, whereas speaking about the identical, she stated,
  

  When there was a nationwide competitors or some occasions, we might set targets and do a sort of mock competitors or trial to do higher than the contributors within the precise competitors.”

• After serving a four-year doping ban, Manpreet Kaur smashed her personal shot put nationwide document on the National Inter State Senior Athletics Championship 2022, and certified for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games by clocking 18.06m on Day 2 of the championship. The qualification mark set for CWG was 17.76m.