Amritpal Singh (track and field)


Amritpal Singh is an Indian track and field athlete from Punjab who specializes 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. It was eventually bettered by Kumaravel Premkumar in 2013 with a jump of 8.09 meters.
Singh is one among four Indians to go beyond the eight-metre mark; the others being T. C. Yohannan, Sanjay Kumar Rai. and Kumaravel Premkumar in 2013. He works for Punjab Police as an Inspector.
Though Singh had passed the qualifying norm of 8.05 m for the 2004 Athens Olympics, he was left out because of unsatisfactory form and fitness.