The Indian Discus player, Kamalpreet Kaur is sleep-deprived as she was not able to sleep a night before the finals match; this is because she was nervous. Today, she spoke to Rakhi Tyagi, her coach that she wasn’t able to sleep. They had a conversation just 4 hours prior to the match. According to the sources, the coach told that she wasn’t able to sleep because of nervousness, Rakhi guided her to focus and just give her best, and the coach asked her not to worry as she has nothing to lose.
On Saturday, she qualified for the finals after standing 2nd in the match, she had thrown 64m throw in all, 60.29m throw in the start, and 63.97m in the second attempt. Another Indian woman who is the Asian Games Gold medallist Seema Punia wasn’t able to qualify for the finals. The 1st position was held by USA’s Valarie Allman.
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She has broken the 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 distance of 65+m. She was first a shot-putter, she started playing shot-put because her physical teacher inspired her to take part, and after some time, she came to Badal’s SAI Academy. Rakhi Tyagi became her coach in 2014, the same year when she started training.
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At her birth, the family didn’t rejoice much as she was the first daughter, her father didn’t own much land, she has studied till 10th grade. She has usually been involved as an athlete as she was heavily built. Her father couldn’t do much to support her because of lack of resources but could only provide her with milk, ghee, etc. She used to travel 100 km on her own and is now getting a pay off because of her hard work.