Before the 25-year-old Arpinder, the previous champion was Mohinder Singh Gill in 1970 with an effort of 16.11m.
Arpinder
Singh on Wednesday ended India's 48-year wait for a gold medal in
the men's triple jump event at the Asian Games as he returned with
his best effort of 16.77 metres in the final.
Arpinder
pipped Uzbekistan's Ruslan Kurbanov, who took the silver medal with a
personal best jump of 16.62 metres. The bronze medal went to Chinese
Cao Shuo, who jumped 16.56 metres.
Before
the 25-year-old Arpinder, the previous champion was Mohinder Singh
Gill in 1970 with an effort of 16.11m.
Another
Indian in the fray, A V Rakesh Babu was sixth with a best attempt of
16.40 metres.
On
Wednesday, Arpinder flopped in his first attempt. After the invalid
jump, he came back strong with a jump of 16.58 metres in the second
attempt which made him the leader after the first two attempts.
Babu,
in his second attempt of 16.40, was second behind his compatriot,
even as Ruslan till then had his best of 16.28.
Arpinder
gained further ascendancy when he came out with a jump of 16.77m.
Ruslan too made his best attempt of 16.62 metres. The Uzbek athlete,
however, could not topple Arpinder as the former made attempts of
15.99, 16.43, 16.41 in his final three chances respectively.
Arpinder
jumped 16.08 in his fourth attempt before fouling the last two
attempts.
China's
Cao delivered his best in his sixth and last attempt with a jump of
16.56 to push Japanese Kohei Yamashita to the fourth spot.
Yamashita
had fouled his last three attempts. His best of 16.46 came in his
third attempt.
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