Monday, February 1, 2010

Shot putter Om Prakash wins bronze US Indoor Meet

Published Mon, Feb 01 10 07:24 PM

Flagstaff (USA), Feb 1 (PTI) Indian shot putter Om Prakash Singh started his preparation for this year''s Commonwealth Games with a bronze medal at Mountain T''s Indoor meet here. Om Prakash, the current Asian champion, tossed the iron ball to a new indoor personal best of 19.37m. American shot putters Ryan Whiting (20.57m) and Russ Winger (19.56m) took the the first two places. Om Prakash cleared 20.02m, the third all-time best by an Indian, while winning the Inter-State championships at Chennai last year. However, he missed the best Indian mark at Indoors (19.60m) held by Vikas Gowda at Chapel Hill, USA, since 2005. PTI PM SSC


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