Punjabi putter -Inderjeet Singh inked his name in history by winning the country’s first Universiade, which is also known as the World University Games (WUG). He won  gold medal in athletics on 8th July 2015. The Games are being held in the South Korean city of Gwangju.  He won the event with his final throw of 20.27 meters.

During the year, He won five gold medals in all five international events. He had won the Asian Championships in China  band clenched a gold in each of the three legs of the Asian Grand Prix in Thailand in the month of June. He had also won a bronze in the Asian Games last year with a throw of 19.63 meters.

Inderjeet has thanked his coach Pritam Singh who has been training him for the past few years and been as one of the most promising medal candidates for the 2016 Rio Olympics. In fact, he was the first Indian athlete to qualify for the Rio Games.

About Inderjeet

• Inderjeet is Indian athlete specializing in the shot put
• Inderjeet’s hails from Nawan shahr in Punjab.
• He represents Haryana in national-level competition.
• At the World University Games, he was part of the Indian contingent as a student of Nagarjuna University, Guntur (Andhra Pradesh).

India’s chief athletics coach Bahadur Singh, said, “This boy is born to do wonders. He is consistently above the 20-meter mark for the past several months.”