Tejaswin Shankar clinches gold at USA meet with season-best leap

Indian excessive jumper Tejaswin Shankar has claimed a gold medal on the Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Manhattan, USA.
Representing Kansas State University, Tejaswin cleared 2.28 metres on Saturday, making a facility document.
It was additionally the season’s most interesting efficiency for the Indian however a centimetre in need of his private finest and the present nationwide document of two.29m which he created in 2018.

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— Neeraj Chopra (@Neeraj_chopra1) May 16, 2021
University of Oklahoma’s Vernon Turner (2.25m) and Texas Tech University’s Jequan Hogan (2.11m) claimed the silver and bronze respectively.
This was Tejaswin’s second successive gold on the occasion.
He claimed the highest honours in 2019 as effectively whereas the occasion couldn’t be held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 22-year-old has been within the US since 2017 when he joined the Kansas State University to pursue enterprise administration on a scholarship.