Tajinderpal Singh

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Tajinder Pal Singh Toor is an Indian shot putter and an Asian Games gold medalist.His journey started in a small town in Moga district, Punjab, where he grew up. Belonging to a farmers family, it was very difficult for his parents to fulfil all his needs. In an interview, his mother said that Tajinderpals diet was equivalent to two kids during childhood. She further said, When he was young, he would often sleep with the gola (shot) under his pillow. His day would start with eating paranthas and 10 eggs and finished too with eating..During childhood, he wanted to be a cricketer. But life had something else stored for him. His father and uncle Gurnam Singh, who himself is a former Indian shotput champion, advised him to go for a shot put by looking at his strong physique. Tajinder Singh in action.His coach Mohinder Singh Dhillon started coaching him in 2013 at Government Arts & Sports College, Jalandhar.During the 2018 Asian Games, Mohinder Singh yelled You die of shame from the stands to encourage Tajinderpal to perform better. In an interview, Mohinder talked about the same and said, I wanted him to get angry. I told him I have left my family for you and your father is fighting cancer. Think of us. I think it worked. An old picture of Tajinderpal Singh Toor with his coach.In 2015, he held the fifth position in the shot put tournament at the World University Games.In June 2017, he competed at the Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships in Patiala, where he recorded his personal best of 20.40m but fell short of the Olympic qualification standard by 0.10m.In the Commonwealth Games that took place in the Carrara Stadium, Queensland in October 2018, Tajinder finished at eighth position in the mens shot put category finals with a throw of 19.42m. Before that, he finished in the tenth position during the qualifying stage. Tomas Walsh from New Zealand was the top scorer in the event with a throw of 21.41m.In 2015, his father was diagnosed with skin cancer. His condition got better after some surgeries, but in 2018, his health got critical. In an interview, he talked about his fathers condition and said, At this stage, I know that my father is not going to live for too long. All I want to do right now is to win as many medals as I can, while he is still alive. I want to give him all the medals..In an interview, Tajinder said that the only thing his father left him was a gun. After his fathers death, he got the gun licence transferred to his name. In an interview, he talked about this and said, He had a gun from the security point of view for the farm and thats the only thing which he left for me..