'Had to mortgage land to support Arpinder’s training'

Triple-jumper Arpinder Singh's rise to the top is yet another story of an Indian athlete beating the obstacles to excel. Arpinder’s family was facing financial problems. His father Jagbir Singh, who retired as an hawaldar from the Indian Army in 1990, had to mortgage the one-and-a-half-acre land that the family possessed so that Arpinder could realise his dream of becoming an international athlete.

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