Tejinder fails to improve on his second chance and registers 18.43. His best is still 18.49, that he achieved on the first attempt and is a shade shy of the automatic qualifying mark of 19.00.
Day 4 is off to a positive start for India with Punam Yadav winning a gold in Weightlifting & Mery Kom securing a Bronze for herself in Boxing. India also beat the strong England team in women's hockey 2-1 coming back from 1 goal behind. The Women's 10m Air Pistol participants, India's Manu Bhaker & Heena Sidhu bagging a Gold medal and Silver medal respectively. The Indian Women's Table Tennis contingent also doing well defeating England 3-0 and moving on to the Gold medal match where they will be facing Singapore later in the day.
Shot put Men's will be another event in which there is Indian participation after Men's and Women's 20 Km racewalk, and Men's 400m Heats. Tejinder Pal Singh Toor will represent India in this event.
For Asia's highest ranked shotputter Tajinder Pal Singh Toor, striving for medals is not just about glory, or about climbing up the rankings, or even becoming famous. For the 22-year-old, who hails from Punjab, he has a much deeper purpose to his life -- winning it for his father, who is now possibly on the last laps of his life, suffering from fourth-stage bone cancer.
Tajinder spoke to the Sportskeeda team saying, "At this stage, I know that my father is not going to live for too long. All I want to do right now is to win as many medals as I can, while he is still alive. I want to give him all the medals."