It was India's maiden medal in a field event in the Commonwealth Games and only the second in athletics after Milkha Singh's 440 yard gold in the 1958 edition. His hammer throw silver (in 1966) remains the only one that an Indian has won at the CWG. He also won a discus throw silver in the 1974 Asian Games. He won a hammer throw bronze in the 1966 Asian Games and a silver in the same discipline in the Commonwealth Games that year. Sobti's discus throw gold medals in the Asiad came in the 19 editions. He came up with his career-best efforts in the two Olympics - 60.84m in hammer throw (1968) and 53.12m in discus throw (1972). The athlete dominated the discus and hammer throw events for many years during the 1960s and 70s, winning medals in three Asian Games, one Commonwealth Games and taking part in two Olympics - the 1968 Mexico editions and the ill-fated 1972 Games in Munich - where Israeli athletes were massacred by a Palestinian terrorist group. Sobti, who hailed from a humble family in Sarhali Kalan village near Amritsar, was 20 when he joined the Border Security Force (BSF), where he was first noticed for his athletic skills. 30 PM following a cardiac arrest," a relative of Praveen told PTI.
At night, when he started feeling uneasy, we called the doctor at home. "He had a chronic chest infection problem. The 74-year-old actor breathed his last at his Ashok Vihar residence here.