Navjeet Dhillon

Navjeet Dhillon
Full name	Navjeet Kaur Dhillon
nation	India
birthday	6th March 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Amritsar , Punjab , India
size	188 cm
Weight	95 kg
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	59.18 m
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 0 × 1 × South Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 Asian Championships 0 × 2 × 1 ×
Commonwealth Games bronze Gold Coast 2018 57.43 m South Asian Games gold Kathmandu 2019 49.85 m  Junior World Championships bronze Eugene 2014 56.36 m Junior Asian Championships silver Colombo 2012 44.78 m silver Taipei 2014 53.66 m bronze Taipei 2014 14.99 m
last change: December 5, 2019

Navjeet Kaur Dhillon (born March 6, 1995 in Amritsar , Punjab ) is an Indian discus thrower .

Athletic career

Navjeet Dhillon gained her first international experience at the 2011 World Youth Championships near Lille , where she was eliminated with 44.46 m in qualification. Then she won the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Douglas with 45.27 m. The following year she won the silver medal at the Junior Asian Championships in Colombo with 44.78 m and at the Asian Championships in Pune she finished ninth and seventh in the shot put and discus throw with 12.91 m and 45.33 m. In 2014 she won the silver medal with the discus again with 53.66 m and with 14.99 m in the shot put at the Junior Asian Championships in Taipei . She then took part in the Junior World Championships in Eugene and won the bronze medal there with a width of 56.36 m. In 2015 she reached sixth place at the Asian Championships in Wuhan with 51.66 m.

In 2018 she took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time , where she won the bronze medal with 57.43 m behind the Australian Dani Stevens and her compatriot Seema Antil . The following year she finished fourth at the Asian Championships in Doha with a throw of 57.47 m. At the beginning of December she won the South Asian Games in Kathmandu with a width of 49.85 m.

In 2015 Dhillon became Indian champion in discus throwing and in 2018 in the shot put.

Personal best

• Shot put: 16.45 m, March 8, 2018 in Patiala
• Discus throw: 59.18 m, February 27, 2018 in Patiala

Web links

• Navjeet Dhillon in the database of World Athletics (English)