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India's Tejinderpal Singh Toor set a new meet record to clinch the gold medal in the men's shot put event at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta on Saturday.
Toor hurled the iron ball a distance of 20.75 metres to smash the previous Games record.
The previous mark of 20.57m was set by Aboulmajeed Alhabashi of Saudi Arabia at the 2010 Asiad in Guangzhou, China.
This is the eighth gold medal for India in men's shot put in the history of the Asian Games.
Toor dominated the final right from the start but reserved his best for the very last attempt.
The fourth attempt saw the Indian clock yet another 19.96m before he simply blew away the competition with his last attempt.
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