indian Tejaswin Shankar Start the 2024 season in impressive fashion, high jump Events at International High Jump Gala Elmos 2024 The track and field competition will be held on Saturday in Heist ob den Berg, Belgium.
Competing for the first time since October last year, 25-year-old Tejaswin Shankar won the World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger event with a jump of 2.23 meters. The Indian athlete’s personal best is his 2.29m, a national record achieved in 2018.
Shankar was ahead of Greece’s Antonios Merlos and Mexico’s Roberto Vilches, who each achieved a best jump of 2.20 meters at Sportal de Lichten.
Tejaswin Shankar, the 2023 Asian Games decathlon silver medalist, is focusing this year on his favorite event, the high jump, in preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The entry standard for the men’s high jump at the Paris 2024 Games is set at 2.33 meters.
Meanwhile, Jesse Sandesh jumped 2.09 meters to tie for 10th place at the Belgian Games. It was his second outing this year. Last week, Sandesh opened the season at the BKK Freundenburg high jump competition in Weinheim, Germany with a jump of 2.10 meters, placing him sixth out of eight competitors.
Tejaswin Shankar will next compete in the Hvezdy vs. Nevvizdev Athletics Championships on February 20 in Nevvizdy, Czech Republic.
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Priyanka Goswami, who has already qualified for the 20km race walk at the Paris Olympics, is currently training and competing in Australia.
In late January, she started her season with a ninth place finish in the women’s 10km race walk at the Supernova event in Canberra. Her time was 46 minutes, 22.26 seconds.
On Sunday, Goswami competed in the 20km race walk at the Oceania-Australia 20km Race Walking Championships in Adelaide, but failed to complete the race (DNF).
Earlier this year, Selva Prabhu finished second in the triple jump at the Interhallenmeetings in Chemnitz, Germany, with a jump of 16.36 meters.
Jesswin Aldrin, who holds the national long jump record, was seen competing in France this month. He placed third in the long jump at the Meeting Three Saws in Amiens with a jump of 7.70 meters, and four days later at the Mondeville Meeting he placed second with a jump of 7.74 meters.