Astana (Kazakhstan): Tajinderpal Singh Toor, India's national record holder in the men's outdoor shot put, clinched the gold medal with a personal indoor best of 19.49m at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, here on Friday.

Toor fouled on his first attempt but hurled the winning throws of 19.49 throw in his third and fifth attempts to claim his first gold medal at the championships.

The 2018 Asian Games gold medallist and the 2019 outdoor Asian champion, Toor earlier won a silver medal in the last edition of the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tehran in 2018 with a 19.18m throw.

Meanwhile, Karanveer Singh, the only other athlete to cross the 19m mark from the seven-man field, secured a one-two finish for India with a 19.37m throw. Ivan Ivanov of Kazakhstan claimed the last spot on the podium with 18.10m.

On the other hand, Praveen Chitravel, India's national champion in the triple jump, claimed a silver medal with a 16.98m leap, a new national indoor record.

Olympian Fang Yaoqing of China hit the 17.20m mark and won the gold while South Korea's Yu Gyumin claimed bronze with 16.73m. India's Arun A B finished 12th with a leap of 14.12m among 15 competitors.

Swapna Barman, an Asian Games 2018 gold medallist in the heptathlon, won silver in the women's pentathlon event with an overall points tally of 4119, also a new national indoor record.

Swapna topped the 60m hurdles in 8.64s, claimed second place in the high jump with 1.75m, second place again in the long jump with 5.91m, fifth in the shot put with 12.13m throw and sixth in the 800m sprint after clocking 2:27.57 in the nine-woman field. India's Sowmiya Murugan came eighth with 3654 points.

Ekaterina Voronina of Uzbekistan won the pentathlon with 4386 points and Yuki Yamasaki of Japan came third with 4078 points.

In the 60m women's final, Archana Suseentran clocked 7.39s and narrowly missed the podium behind Indonesia's Valentin Vanesa Lonteng, who came third in 7.37s.

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