KATHMANDU: Tahinderpal Singh of India broke the SAG record in men’s shot put.

The previous record was 19.15 meters in 1999 by Sagoo Singh Bahadur (India). Athlete Singh registered gold medal by throwing the ball 20.03 meter far.

With this new record, Om Prakash of India and Samith Madhushankar of Srilanka won the second and the third-best shot put the distance of 17.31 meters and 15.55 meters respectively.

In the women’s shotput, Aba Khatua of India registered gold medal by throwing the ball 15.32meters far whereas, Tharika Kumudum of Sri Lanka scored silver and Kachina Chaudhary (India) scored Bronze with the ball throw distance of 14.35meter and 13.66 meter, respectively.