23rd National Junior Athletics Championship have come out to be a recored breaker for the young Athlete Tejaswin Shanker. During the championship, he has broken the 12-year-old record in high jump. In an effort of 2.26m, he has won the gold of the championship along with breaking the 12-year record in national senior high jump.
The interesting part is the record belongs to the senior's category while the young athlete was competing in the juniors category and then also have achieved the feat. The earlier national senior record was in the name of Hari Shankar Roy of West Bengal who had jumped 2.25m while winning a silver in the Asian All-Star Athletics meet in Singapore in 2004.
The 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games gold medallist Tejaswin had easy clearances over 2.06, 2.12, 2.18 and 2.21 in all his first attempts. He had just one failure over 2.24m, and then came the record of 2.26m, also with the second attempt.
"I did not expect the record here. I have no idea what happened to me. It went like a fairy-tale," Tejaswin said after his event.
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