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| Full name | Navjeet Kaur Dhillon | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Indian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 March 1995 Amritsar, India[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Discus throw | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Discus throw: 59.18 m (2018) | ||||||||||||||
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Navjeet Kaur Dhillon (born 6 March 1995) is an Indian track and field athlete who competes as a Discus thrower. Her current world ranking in the Women's Discus Throw category is 46, and in the Women's Overall ranking is 4165.[2] She was the bronze medalist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, with her final throw of 57.43 m and became the second Indian to win a medal at the World Junior Championships in Athletics in 2014. She holds a personal best of 59.18 m (194 ft 1+3⁄4 in), set in 2018 in Indian Grand Prix in February, 2018.[3]
Dhillon had to wait for more than two years to receive her cash award for the World Junior Athletics Championship bronze medal. She hoped to receive a job offer by the Punjab government.[4] She is presently employed in as an income tax inspector.[5]
Following a doping violation in June 2022, she was banned for a period of three years.[6]
- ^ Navjeet Dhillon. GC2018. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
- ^ "Navjeet Kaur DHILLON | Profile | iaaf.org". www.iaaf.org. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ "CWG 2018: Amritsar athlete Navjeet Dhillon wins bronze in discus throw". The Indian Express. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ "CWG 2018: Amritsar athlete Navjeet Dhillon wins bronze in discus throw". The Indian Express. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ "Navjeet Kaur Dhillon". olympic.ind.in. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ "Top discus thrower Navjeet Dhillon banned for 3 years for failing dope test". The Times of India. 28 August 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.