National document holder in excessive leap Tejaswin Shankar gained the highest prize within the International High Jump Gala Elmos 2024 athletics meet in Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium with a leap of two.23 metres. Shankar, competing for the primary time since October final yr, completed forward of Greece’s Antonios Merlos (2.20 metres) within the World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger occasion on Saturday. The 25-year-old, who holds each the boys’s excessive leap and decathlon nationwide information, nevertheless, couldn’t higher his private finest of two.29m. Shankar can also be specializing in decathlon and had gained bronze and silver within the self-discipline within the Asian Championships and Asian Games final yr.

Shankar has educated his eyes on a Paris Olympics berth however for that he should obtain a qualifying commonplace of two.33 metres.

The different Indian in fray, Jesse Sandesh completed joint-Tenth with a leap of two.09 metres.

Shankar will subsequent be seen in motion on the Hvezdy v Nehvizdech athletics meet in Nehvizdy, Czech Republic on February 20.

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