Tejaswin Shankar — 15 months after breaking Hari Shankar Roy’s 12-year-old National men’s high jump record with 2.26m at the junior Nationals in Coimbatore — jumped 2.28m in the Big 12 Indoor Athletics Championships at Ames, USA, on Saturday. He also cleared the Athletics Federation of India’s entry standard of 2.25m for the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, in April.
American Vernon Turner, who had also cleared 2.28m, took the silver with fewer fouls while Trey Culver (2.31m) won the gold.
