19-yr-old Indian breaks his own national high jump record
Competing for Kansas State University, 19-year-old Tejaswin Shankar broke his own national record by clearing a height of 2.28m. Shankar had set the record at the 2.26m mark at the Junior National Championships in Coimbatore in 2016 when he was a schoolboy. The height cleared by Shankar is the best this year amongst athletes from Commonwealth countries.