Nagoya, September 25, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
India’s veteran athlete Manpreet Kaur secured a bronze medal in the women’s shot put final at the Asian Games after producing a best throw of 17.17m at the Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium on Friday.
Manpreet achieved the distance with her fourth throw to finish third behind Chinese duo Song Jiayuan, who won gold, and Zhang Linru, who took silver.
The other Indian in the field, youngster Krishna Jayasankar Menon, also put up an impressive performance, recording a best throw of 16.57m to finish fifth.
Manpreet is a former Asian Athletics Championships bronze medallist, having finished third with a throw of 17.00m at the 2023 edition.
She was also part of India’s Commonwealth Games 2026 contingent, where she narrowly missed a medal after finishing fourth with a throw of 17.49m. She represented India at the 2016 Olympic Games, finishing 23rd.
Manpreet had won gold at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships but was subsequently handed a four-year ban after testing positive for a banned substance, with her gold medal also withdrawn.
She returned to competition in 2022 and broke the national record with a throw of 18.06m. She competed at the Commonwealth Games 2022, finishing 11th, and finished fifth at the previous Asian Games.
In 2026, Manpreet has maintained strong domestic form, winning the National Inter-State Athletics Championships with a throw of 17.75m, which surpassed the Asian Games qualification standard of 16.25m.
Her bronze in Nagoya adds an Asian Games medal to a season that has also included a fourth-place finish at the Commonwealth Games.
Manpreet has become the third Indian woman to win an Asian Games medal in the shot put, following Barbara Webster, who won bronze in 1951, and Kiran Baliyan, who also claimed bronze in 2022.
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