Amritpal Singh (born 6 October 1983 in

Sangrur Sangrur is a city in Sangrur district of 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 s ...

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

) was an Indian

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete from

who specialized in long jump. 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 New Delhi on 16 March 2004, bettered the 30-year record held by

T. C. Yohannan T. C. Yohannan (born 19 May 1947), in full Thadathuvila Chandapillai Yohannan, is a former Indian long jumper who held the national record in long jump for nearly 3 decades and represented India in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, ...

. It was eventually bettered by

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

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 (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

2004 Athens Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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

Death

The night of 26 April 2021, Singh died in a road accident near Patti, Punjab. Singh was on a patrolling duty in the border area. Police sources said he was posted as in-charge at the Ghariala police post. He was on patrolling duty regarding illegal mining in the area. He lost control over his vehicle on the Patti- Tarn Taran road near Mahi Resorts

Kairon Kairon, is a small historical Indian village of the historical places like Gurudwara Jhar Sahib . this village in the district of Tarn-Taran, located in the north-west of Punjab. The village is home to a majority of Dhillon Jatt Sikhs. The vi ...

and it hit a roadside tree. He sustained serious injuries and later died.

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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