The women’s discusthrow finals started today at 4.30 PM and in the beginning, the throw was of61.62m and USA’s Allman lead the throw with 68.98m throw. She fouled her secondattempt; the best shot of 68.98m was thrown by Valarie Allman and is still leadingthe scoreboard. The heavy rain caused difficulty for the players to throw theshot and the match was put on hold.
On 31st, 2021,Kamalpreet had her group B match is which she stood 2nd after USA’s ValarieAllman, who held the 1st position. In the beginning of the match she threw a60.29m throw and her second attempt was better and was 63.97m. Her final andthe best score was 64m.
Kamalpreet Kaur hailsfrom Kabarwala village in Punjab’s Sri Muktsar Sahib District. The Punjab girlhas become 10th Indian in track and field events to directly secure a positionat Olympics by qualifying the benchmark set by the World Athletics. KamalpreetKaur is an Indian Railway employee and represents the Railways in the Nationallevel tournament.
She had secured adirect qualification to the Tokyo Olympics for herself during the 24thFederation Cup Senior Athletics Championship held at Patiala. She has brokenthe National Record of Krishna Poonia of 64.76m. With her 65.06m throw,Kamalpreet Kaur has become India’s first woman to throw a discus at a distanceof 65+m. This time she has defeated Asian Games Gold medallist Seema Punia. Shewas U-18 and U-20 National Champion in the year 2016.
During her childhooddays she wanted to become a professional cricketer but looking at her physiqueher physical education teacher at school asked her to try out shot put beforean inter-school competition. She switched to discus throw in the year 2014and worked hard during the Covid-19 lockdown to keep her Olympics dreamalive. She still wants to build her career in cricket and has said that cricketis her passion and she wanted to perform well in that too.