Arpinder Singh

Arpinder Singh
nation	India
birthday	30th December 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Harsha Chhina , Punjab , India
size	185 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	17.17 m
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Commonwealth Games bronze Glasgow 2014 16.63 m  Asian Games gold Jakarta 2018 16.77 m Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games gold Ashgabat 2017 16.21 m Asian Championships bronze Pune 2013 16.58 m
last change: December 22, 2018

Arpinder Singh (born December 30, 1992 in Harsha Chhina , Punjab ) is an Indian triple jumper . He held the Indian record in the triple jump between 2014 and 2016.

Career

Arpinder Singh gained his first international experience at the 2009 Youth World Championships in Brixen , where he was eliminated from the qualification with 14.20 m. In 2010 he won the silver medal behind the Chinese Cao Shuo at the Junior Asian Championships in Hanoi with 16.13 m . He then took part in the Junior World Championships in Moncton , Canada , where he was eliminated with 15.31 m in qualification. In 2013 he qualified for the Asian Championships in the Indian city of Pune , where he won the bronze medal with 16.58 m. On June 8, 2014, he set his personal record of 17.17 meters in Lucknow . With this distance he set the Indian record at that time. On July 11, 2016, Renjith Maheswary took the Indian record from him again. In the same year he was nominated for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , where he won the bronze medal with 16.53 m. He then finished fifth at the Asian Games in Incheon with 16.41 m.

In Calcutta , he secured his second Indian championship title on September 19, 2015 with a width of 16.36 meters. In 2017 he was nominated for the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games and on September 20 he won the gold medal with a width of 16.21 meters ahead of Pratchaya Tepparak from Thailand and Rashid al-Mannai from Qatar. With this distance he sets up his best performance in the hall. Previously, he won another medal at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with 16.33 m and was fourth there. In 2018 he was nominated for the Commonwealth Games 2018 in the Australian Gold Coast , where he took fourth place with a width of 16.46 m. At the end of August he took part again in the Asian Games in Jakarta and won there with a width of 16.77 m. He then came third at the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava with 16.59 m.

In 2013, 2015 and 2018 Singh became Indian triple jump champion.

Personal best

• Triple jump: 17.16 m, June 8, 2014 in Lucknow 
  • Triple jump (hall): 16.21 m, September 20, 2017 in Ashgabat 

Web links

• Arpinder Singh in the database of World Athletics (English)