Mohinder Singh Gill

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{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Mohinder Singh Gill
| image = Mohinder Singh Gill 1970.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Mohinder Singh Gill
| full_name = Mohinder Singh Gill
| nationality = [[Americans| American ]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|4|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Nawa Jamsher, [[Lyallpur District]], [[British India]]
| country = [[India]]
| sport = [[Track and field]]
| event = [[Triple jump]]
| pb = TJ – 16.79 (1971) Indian Record for almost 40 years.
57’ 5.5” (1972 ) Controversiol foul was measured over World Record.
| height = 182 cm<ref name=sr>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418120034/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/mohinder-singh-gill-1.html Mohinder Singh Gill]. sports-reference.com</ref>
| weight = 75 kg
| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Country | {{IND}} }}
{{Medal|Competition|[[Athletics at the Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games|1970 Edinburgh]]|Triple jump}}
{{Medal|Silver| [[Athletics at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games|1974 Christchurch]] | Triple jump}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[Athletics at the Asian Games|Asian Games]]}}
{{Medal|Gold |[[Athletics at the 1970 Asian Games|1970 Bangkok]]|Triple jump}}
{{Medal|Silver |[[Athletics at the 1974 Asian Games|1974 Tehran]]|Triple jump}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[Athletics at Asian Athletics Championships|Asian Championships]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1967 Asian Athletics Championships|1967 Colombo]]|Triple Jump}}
{{Medal|Gold |[[1975 Asian Athletics Championships|1975 Cebu Island Phillipnes]]|Triple Jump}}
{{Medal|Gold |[[1973 Asian Athletics Championships|1973 Manila]]|Triple jump}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[Pre-Olympics Athletics Championships|Pre-Olympics]]}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[1971 Pre-Olympics Athletics Championships|1971 Munich]]|Triple Jump}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[1972 Pre-Olympics Meet|1972 Munich]]|Triple Jump}}
}}

'''Mohinder Singh Gill''' is a retired [[India]]n [[triple jump]]er who competed at the [[1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Munich Olympics]]. After placing second in a pre-Olympic meet in Munich, he competed while injured and failed to reach the final.<ref name=sr/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20011125/spectrum/main3.htm |title=The Sunday Tribune – Spectrum – Article |publisher=Tribuneindia.com |date=25 November 2001 |accessdate=3 November 2013}}</ref> Gill won one gold and one silver medal at the Asian Games.<ref>[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/asg.htm Asian Games]. gbrathletics.com</ref>

Gill won two of India's five-ever medals at the [[Commonwealth Games]]. There were attempts to remove him from the national team, but [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Indira Gandhi]] intervened to allow him to compete.<ref name=toi>{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-08-15/interviews/28289232_1_commonwealth-games-arjuna-awardee-scams |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411041149/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-08-15/interviews/28289232_1_commonwealth-games-arjuna-awardee-scams |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 April 2013 |work=[[The Times of India]] |title=I'm pained by reported scams in Commonwealth Games: Gill|date=15 August 2010 }}</ref>

Gill won 52 major international invitational competitions in North America and Europe, setting 19 new records in the process; in addition, he won 5 NCAA Championships all with new records.<ref name="poly" /> Some of those records stood 40 years later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phototiming.com/meets/13cpinv/HEATS.HTM |title=2013 Cal Poly ShareSlo.com Invitational San Luis Obispo, CA Results online at |publisher=Phototiming.com |date=16 March 2013 |accessdate=3 November 2013}}</ref>

A profile in the Sacramento Bee in 1971 described Gill as "six feet.. 163 pounds .. fast enough to run 100 yards on 9.6 seconds, strong enough to do squat jumps with 300 pounds across his shoulders, dead lift 500 pounds, practice half squats carrying 650 pounds and to do toe raises packing 700 pounds"<ref name=bee>Don Bloom, ''India's Gill Will Wow 'Em Tonight'', The Sacramento Bee, 11 June 1971</ref>

Gill was sent for playing volleyball when he was in the eighth grade. After three years, he quit volleyball and took up high jump. When he failed in high jump in a championship at the age of 17, he tried triple jump and won with a jump of 41 ft and 4 inches. After this he received a sports scholarship from the Kurukshtetra University. He attended it for one year before moving to [[California Polytechnic State University]] (CPSU)<ref name=bee/>

Gill attended the "Cal Poly", competing in triple jump from 1968 to 1971, winning five NCAA championships and setting five NCAA records. He was elected into the CPSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993 as the only Asian to receive the honor. He currently resides in Turlock in central California.<ref name=poly>{{cite web|author=Mohinder Gill |url=http://www.gopoly.com/inside_athletics/hof/Gill_Mohinder |title=Mohinder Gill – Cal Poly|publisher=Gopoly.com|date=|accessdate=3 November 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Singh|first1=Rajmeet|title=Olympian on a mission to warn against NRI conmen|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060925/cth1.htm#6|publisher=tribuneindia.com|accessdate=16 February 2017|date=25 September 2006}}</ref>

In 1970, Gill was given India's highest sports award, the [[Arjuna Award]].<ref name=toi />

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:1947 births]]
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[[Category:Indian male triple jumpers]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes of India]]
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[[Category:Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:Asian Games gold medalists for India]]
[[Category:Asian Games silver medalists for India]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Cal Poly Mustangs track and field]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Arjuna Award]]

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