Sultan Abdulmajeed Al-Hebshi of Saudi Arabia had won the gold medals in the Guangzhou Asian Games and Pune Asian championships. His 2009 mark of 21.13m in Qatar Athletics Super Grand Prix remains as an Asian record to date. But the Sulatan’s crown is in danger as new faces started appearing on the arena in recent times. Chinese-Taipei’s Chang Ming-Huang is best among the Asian shot putters this season with a heave of 20.13m. Interestingly he tossed the iron ball to 20.58m three years ago. Mainland China’s Wang Guangfu (20.20m in 2012) and last year’s World University Games silver medalist Inderjeet Singh (19.83m this season) from India are also expected to throw in some keen contest in this event.
