Meena rewrites pole vault National record

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Meena came retired  connected  apical  successful  a neck-and-neck contention   with grooming  spouse  Kuldeep.

Meena came retired connected apical successful a neck-and-neck contention with grooming spouse Kuldeep. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR

Kushare gave a bully  relationship  of his absorption   to archetypal  registry  2.22m and guarantee  his CWG journey.

Kushare gave a bully relationship of his absorption to archetypal registry 2.22m and guarantee his CWG journey. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR

In a spectacular neck-and-neck contest, Dev Meena pipped grooming spouse Kuldeep Kumar to rewrite the men’s rod vault National grounds with a people of 5.45m successful the Federation athletics conscionable astatine the Birsa Munda Stadium (Morabadi) connected Sunday.

Pushing each different hard, some showed bully bushed to wide 5.45m. The 2 raised the barroom to 5.50m, but could not spell past it. Meena got the amended of Kuldeep, who had acceptable the National people of 5.41m earlier this month, connected the ground of registering less full misses (Meena’s 8 vs Kuldeep’s nine).

The 2 earned their tickets for the Commonwealth Games.

“We did our champion contiguous and gave each different a bully fight. We volition proceed to support up our combat successful bid to amended further,” said Meena.

Shreeshankar leaped to 8.08m successful  his 3rd  jump

Shreeshankar leaped to 8.08m successful his 3rd jump | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR

“We are inactive learning this method athletics and we volition improve,” said Kuldeep.

High jumper Sarvesh Kushare gave a bully relationship of his absorption to archetypal registry 2.22m and guarantee his CWG journey. He improved it further to adjacent Tejaswin Shankar’s conscionable grounds (2.28m). However, his effort to amended 1cm upon Tejaswin’s National grounds (2.29m) did not succeed.

A accordant M. Sreeshankar leaped to 8.08m successful his 3rd leap to suffice for the CWG. His past 2 attempts were foul.

Forty-year-old Olympian Sandeep Kumar emerged the men’s 10,000m contention locomotion champion aft 18-year-old victor Nitin Gupta was disqualified arsenic per World Athletics Technical Rule 6.2, which prohibits assistance to an jock during an event, precocious connected Saturday. Sandeep had filed a ailment aft the race.

The results (finals): Men: 1500m (CWG Q mark: 3:30.82): 1. Rahul Baloda (Raj) 3:40.06, 2. Sakir (Har) 3:40.83, 3. Ajay Kumar Saroj (UP) 3:40.92; 110m hurdles (CWG Q people 13.39): 1. Tejas Shirse (Rel.) 13.50 (NMR, Old Tejas Shirse 13.61, 2023), 2. Krishik M. (Rel) 13.52, 2. Muhammed Lazan (Navy) 13.83; Long leap (CWG Q mark: 8.05m): 1. M. Sreeshankar (NCOE Thiruvananthapuram) 8.08m, 2. S. Lokesh (Rel) 7.94m, 3. Mohd. Atta Sazid (Har) 7.90m; High leap (CWG Q people 2.22m): 1. Sarvesh Kushare (Mah) 2.28m (MR, Old 2.28m, Tejaswin Shankar, 2018), 2. Aadarsh Ram (TN) 2.22m, 3. Sudeep (Kar) 2.12m; Discus (CWG Q people 64.56m): 1. Dharamraj Yadav (Army) 55.20m, 2. Bhartpreet Singh (Navy) 54.62m, 3. Oinam Alson Singh (NCOE Patiala) 53.52m; Pole vault (CWG Q mark: 5.25m): 1. Dev Meena (MP Academy) 5.45m (NR, Old 5.41m, Kuldeep Kumar, 2026), 2. Kuldeep Kumar (MP) 5.45m, 3. Reegan G. (TN) 5.15m.

Women: 100m hurdles (CWG Q people 12.67): 1. Nandhini K. (TN) 13.24, 2. Pragyan Prasanti Sahu (Odi) 13.33, 3. Anjali C. (JSW) 13.35; Hammer (CWG Q people 66.80m): 1. Manpreet Kaur (Pun) 59.08m, 2. Kulvinder Kaur (Rly) 57.76m, 3. Divya Shandilya (Odi) 56.41m; 10,000m contention locomotion (CWG Q people 44:44.58): 1. Ravina (Har) 44:29.66, 2. Reshma Patel (AIP) 44:57.94, 3. Munita Prajapati (UP) 45:23.92.

Saturday: Men: 10,000m contention locomotion (CWG Q people 39:06.28): 1. Sandeep Kumar (Har) 39:51.95, 2. Servin (TN) 40:23.22, 3. Paramjeet Singh Bisht (Utk) 40:51.65.

Published - May 24, 2026 09:43 p.m. IST

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