It’s figuring how to do it as efficiently as you can.” Kamalpreet managed a best throw of 63.70m with USAs Valarie Allman taking gold with a throw of 68.98m.
“It’s a second-and-a-half dance that you do hundreds of times, and really repetitive, but gosh darn, I do think it’s a dance,” she said. India at Tokyo 2020 August 2: Indias Kamalpreet Kaur finished sixth in the final of the womens discus throw event at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. That’s from her dancing days, which she’s carried over to the discus. Light on her feet, Allman has a certain rhythm in the ring. On the very day she had hoped to be throwing in the qualifying round of the women’s discus at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, Allman competed Saturday in Rathdrum, Idaho - population about 9,000. “I’m still waiting for my feet to touch the ground,” Allman said. Kristin Pudenz of Germany was second and Yaime Perez of Cuba captured bronze. She tried to think about her technique.Īnd while her first throw would be her top attempt, no one could catch her. All she thought about during the delay was staying calm. She was in a groove before the stoppage, too. She and her fellow competitors could be seen sitting under cover, with rain gear draped across their heads, after the downpour hit. The fact she had to wait out a rain delay only added to the drama. Not so much because of the event - American Stephanie Brown Trafton won it at the 2008 Beijing Games - but because of where it fell on the schedule: Day 4.īut what seemed like good bets for wins - 4x400 mixed relay, men’s 100, women’s 100 hurdles - didn’t materialize. Hardly anyone figured the country’s first medal at Olympic Stadium would come from women’s discus. “Looking back, gosh darn, that was the best spaghetti dinner of my entire life,” said the 26-year-old Allman, a multi-time All-American while at Stanford who now and trains in Austin, Texas.