India's Purnima wins pentathlon gold at Asian indoor meet

Indian athlete Purnima Hembram bagged gold in women's pentathlon event at the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Turkmenistan on Monday. Hembram, who was participating in her career's first pentathlon, broke the Indian record by scoring 4,062 points and won the event by more than 100 points. Meanwhile, Tejinder Singh Toor won silver in men's shot put.

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