Nauraj Singh Randhawa
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Born | Johor, Malaysia | 27 January 1992||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Malaysia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | High jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 2.30 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nauraj Singh Randhawa (Punjabi: Nauraja sigha radhāvā; born 27 January 1992) is a Malaysian athlete, specialising in the high jump.
Athletics career[]
He won the gold medal in the 2013 and 2015 Southeast Asian Games. In 2016, he jumped 2.29 m in Kallang, Singapore. In 2017, he beat the 2.30 mark in Singapore, improving his personal best. With this record he became the first track and field athlete to reach the Olympics without a wild card since the 2008 Beijing Olympics when Lee Hup Wei, Roslinda Samsu and Yuan Yufang qualified on merit.
External links[]
- Nauraj Singh Randhawa at World Athletics
- Nauraj Singh Randhawa at Olympedia
- Nauraj Singh Randhawa at the Commonwealth Games Federation
Categories:
- 1992 births
- Living people
- People from Johor
- Malaysian people of Indian descent
- Malaysian people of Punjabi descent
- Malaysian male high jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Malaysia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Malaysia
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Malaysia
- Southeast Asian Games medalists in athletics
- Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Malaysia
- Competitors at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games
- Competitors at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games
- Competitors at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games
- Competitors at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games
- Asian Games competitors for Malaysia
- Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Malaysia
- Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Malaysia
- Malaysian athletics biography stubs