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. She was the bronze medalist at the

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, with her final throw of 57.43 m and became the second Indian to win a medal at the

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in 2014. She holds a personal best of , set in 2018 in Indian Grand Prix in February, 2018. 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. She is presently employed in as an income tax inspector. Following a doping violation in June 2022, she was banned for a period of three years.

Career

Born in

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, Dhillon won the Indian junior title in the discus in 2010 and the national youth title in 2011. She made her international debut at the

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, competing in qualifying only,Navjeet Dhillon
IAAF. Retrieved 2018-04-15. and won her first medal (a bronze) at the

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. Dhillon won a

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/discus double at the 2012 Indian Junior Championships and claimed a silver medal at the

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behind Subenrat Insaeng. Dhillon made her first appearance in the senior ranks in the 2013 season, competing in both shot put and discus at the

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. More age category medals came at the

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, where she was third in the shot put and second in the discus. She achieved a breakthrough at the

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, taking the discus bronze medal with a personal best throw of . This made her the second Indian to win a medal at that competition, following in the footsteps of fellow women's discus thrower Seema Antil. Dhillon topped the national podium in the discus in 2014 and 2015, as she transitioned into the senior ranks, as well as a shot put/discus double at the

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. She was sixth in discus at the

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– her first senior international medal.

International competitions

National titles

* India Open Athletics Championships **Discus throw: 2014, 2015 **Shot put: 2016, 2017 *

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**Shot put:

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**Discus throw:

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dhillon, Navjeet 1995 births Living people Athletes from Amritsar Sportswomen from Punjab, India Indian female discus throwers Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games