India's 27-year-old Tejaswin Shankar added glittering gold to the Indian medal tally on the final day of the 12th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tianjin, China, on Sunday.
The 26-year-old athlete upgraded from his previous performance of 7,666 points, which earned him an Asian Games silver back in 2022 at Hangzhou and broke Bharatinder Singh's national record, which had been there since 2011, as per Olympics.com.
Tejaswin is the international decathlete who holds the National Record and specialises in the high jump. He is India's first-ever high jump medallist at the Commonwealth Games, securing a bronze medal at Hangzhou back in 2023. Jay is an All India University record holder in the triple jum
Star Indian athlete Tejaswin Shankar displayed a stunning performance in his first outdoor meet, winning the men's high jump event at the Shocker Spring Invitational 2024 athletics competition in Kansas.
In his just second competition as a decathlete, Tejaswin scored 7,648 points at the Jim Click Shootout competition in Arizona, USA, missing out on Bharatinder Singh's 2011 national record by 10 points. The score also allowed him to cross the 7,500-point mark needed to secure an Asian Games b