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Further Personal Information | |
| Residence | Gurgaon, IND |
Sport Specific Information | |
| Club / Team | Oil and Natural Gas Corporation [ONGC]: India |
General Interest | |
| Other sports | He played national schoolboy basketball before making the switch to shot put. (indiatimes.com, 02 Aug 2010; yahoo.com, 26 Feb 2014; sportskeeda.com, 26 Feb 2014) |
Sport Specific Information | |
| Why this sport? | In 2004 he was approached by Athletics Federation of India secretary Lalit Bhanot at a national schoolboy basketball tournament. "He asked me if I had ever competed in shot put. I lied and said that I had thrown the shot over 20 metres. I had no clue who he was or that the national record was 20.48m. He must have known instantly that I was bluffing." |
General Interest | |
| Most influential person in career | His mother. (olympicgoldquest.in, 11 Jan 2010) |
| Ambitions | To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (impactguru.com, 01 May 2017) |
Sport Specific Information | |
| Name of coach | Bhupinder Singh [personal], IND |
| When and where did you begin this sport? | He first tried the shot put in 2004 at the Salwan Throws Academy in Delhi, India. |
International Debut | |
| Year | 2009 |
| Competing for | India |
| Tournament | Asian Championships |
| Location | China |
Further Personal Information | |
| Occupation | Athlete, Factory Worker |
General Interest | |
| Nicknames | OP (Facebook page, 31 Oct 2017) |
| Sporting philosophy / motto | "Behind every successful man there is a woman." (olympicgoldquest.in, 11 Jan 2010) |
| Other information | OCCUPATION He joined the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation in India under a sports quota programme that allows him to train and compete internationally. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 25 Sep 2017) |
| Injuries | He required a late fitness test on a twisted ankle before he was cleared to compete at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea. (cricketcountry.com, 26 Sep 2014) He suffered a shoulder injury after the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (sports.ndtv.com, 03 Jul 2013) |
Further Personal Information | |
| Languages | English, Hindi, Punjabi |