Indian veteran athlete Manpreet Kaur secured a bronze medal in the women’s shot put final after hurling the iron ball to a distance of 17.17m at the Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium here on Friday.
Manpreet achieved the mark on her fourth throw to take the third-place finish behind the Chinese duo of Song Jiayuan (Gold) and Zhang Linru (Silver). The other Indian in the field, Krishna Jayasankar Menon, also put up an impressive performance as the youngster hurled the ball to a best distance of 16.57 to finish fifth.
