Amritpal Singh (born 6 October 1983 in

Sangrur Sangrur is a city in the Indian state of Punjab, India. It is the headquarters of Sangrur District. Geography Sangrur is located at . It has an average elevation of 237 metres (778 feet). Climate Health services City has PGIM ...

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) was an Indian

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athlete from

who specialized in

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

. He held the national record from 2004 to 2013.

Career

Singh, with an 8.08 metres jump at the 10th Federation Cup Athletics Championships in

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on 16 March 2004, bettered the 30-year record held by T. C. Yohannan. It was eventually bettered by

Kumaravel Premkumar Kumaravel Premkumar (born 2 June 1993) is an Indian long jumper from Tamil Nadu. He is the List of Indian records in athletics, national record-holder in both the indoor and outdoor long jump. He won a bronze medal at the 2012 Asian Indoor Athl ...

in 2013 with a jump of 8.09 meters. Singh was one among four Indians to go beyond the eight-metre mark; the others being T. C. Yohannan (in 1974),

Sanjay Kumar Rai Sanjay Kumar Rai (born 1 May 1979) is an Indian track and field athlete from Uttar Pradesh, India who specializes in the long jump event. He competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games but did not record a valid jump. His personal best jump ...

(in 2000). and

in 2013. He worked for Punjab Police as an Inspector. Though Singh had passed the qualifying norm of 8.05 m for the

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, he was left out because of unsatisfactory form and fitness.

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* 1983 births Indian male long jumpers Athletes from Punjab, India People from Sangrur Living people 21st-century Indian people {{India-athletics-bio-stub