
She also won a gold and a bronze in the 20 Asian Games respectively.

She has won a medal each in all four CWGs since 2006 - three silver and one bronze in all. Punia has won laurels for the country in the Commonwealth and Asian Games. In 20 Olympics, she had disappointing performances of 61.91m and 57.58m. She made her Olympic debut in 2004 in Athens where she had a best throw of 60.64m. She has never qualified for the final round. It was the veteran discus thrower’s fourth Olympics. The discus throw at the World Championships in Athletics has been contested by both men and women since the inaugural edition in 1983. She had come to Tokyo with her personal coach Alexander Sinitsyn who was with her in Jakarta. The Greek discus was a throwing disc used in the pentathlon, an ancient Olympic Games, Nemean Games, and Pythian Games event. Punia has been training outside the national camp, mostly in Russia and neighbouring countries. She returned to action only this season after appearing for the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta where she won a bronze. She has a personal best of 64.84m, a performance she produced way back in 2004. The 38-year-old Haryana athlete had made it to the Olympics on the day of qualification deadline with a throw of 63.72m during the National Inter-State Championships in Patiala on June 29. She fouled her first throw and had 60.57m and 58.93m in her next two attempts to make an exit from what would be her last Olympics. Punia, who had booked a last minute Olympics berth, was way below her season and personal best marks. She has a season’s best of 70.22m while Allman is second best this year at 70.01m. Season leader Jorinde van Klinken of Netherlands failed to make the final round cut with a modest throw of 61.15m. Then in June, she bettered her own national record with a throw of 66.59m during the Indian Grand Prix-4 to sit at world number six. She threw 65.06m during the Federation Cup in March to break the national record and become the first Indian to breach the 65m mark. They require immense strength, power, and balance. Allman (USA claimed the Gold, Pudenz (GER) Silver and Perez (CUB) compleed the podium. The Punjab athlete has been in impressive form this year as she breached the 65m mark twice recently. The discus, hammer throw, javelin, and shot put are all Olympic throwing events at the Tokyo Olympics. Womens Discus Throw Final - Athletics Tokyo 2020 Replays This event took place on at the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo. To solve these problems, coaches and researchers mainly adopt the following training modes and means, as shown in Table 4.
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Those who touch 64m or at least 12 best performers in the two qualifying rounds advance to the final. The initial stage of discus is more important than the athletes mastery of technology, and the final stage of exertion is the joint effect of the athletes body quality and technology. Kaur began with a 60.29m effort and then improved it to 63.97m before her third throw of 64m.
